Nvidia's Rubin Platform, Meta's $2B Agent Bet, & Anthropic Hits $350B
Rubin ships early after Blackwell's rocky launch, robots finally get real timelines, Meta's $2B Manus deal triggers China probe, and Anthropic doubles to $350B
Nvidia Accelerates Rubin as Blackwell Stumbles
Jensen Huang opened CES 2026 at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas with Rubin, Nvidia’s successor to Blackwell and its most complex AI platform to date.
Rubin delivers up to 5x the inference performance and 3.5x the training throughput of Blackwell. More importantly, it cuts token costs by 10x, making inference a lo…