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Nvidia CEO Jensen<\/span> Huang says that the company\u2019s next-generation AI superchip platform, Vera Rubin, is on schedule to begin arriving to customers later this year. \u201cToday, I can tell you that Vera Rubin is in full production,\u201d Huang said during a press event on Monday at the annual CES technology trade show in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n Rubin will cut the cost of running AI models<\/a> to about one-tenth of Nvidia\u2019s current leading chip system, Blackwell<\/a>, the company told analysts and journalists during a call on Sunday. Nvidia also said Rubin can train certain large models using roughly one-fourth as many chips as Blackwell requires. Taken together, those gains could make advanced AI systems significantly cheaper to operate and make it harder for Nvidia\u2019s customers to justify moving away from its hardware.<\/p>\n Nvidia said on the call that two of its existing partners, Microsoft and CoreWeave, will be among the first companies to begin offering services powered by Rubin chips later this year. Two major AI data centers that Microsoft is currently building in Georgia and Wisconsin will eventually include thousands of Rubin chips, Nvidia added. Some of Nvidia\u2019s partners have started running their next-generation AI models on early Rubin systems, the company said.<\/p>\n The semiconductor giant also said it\u2019s working with Red Hat, which makes open source enterprise software for banks, automakers, airlines, and government agencies, to offer more products that will run on the new Rubin chip system.<\/p>\n