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Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, January 6th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

NVIDIA has unveiled its newest AI server systems. The company's new Vera Rubin servers will go on sale in the second half of the year.

They are designed for a type of model training where AI uses simulations to learn how to navigate real-world situations. Typically,

Nvidia unveils its newest chips at its spring developer conference, but CEO Jensen Huang

said the immense demand and complexity of AI computing has accelerated the semiconductor industry's pace.

Here's Huang speaking at CES yesterday. The race is on for AI.

Everybody's trying to get to the next level. Everybody's trying to get to the next frontier.

In other news out of CES, Dell Technologies announced plans to expand its personal computer portfolio

to include a wider range of price points. It comes after the company underperformed last

year. Company executives said that by focusing too much on high-end premium PCs for commercial

customers, it lost out on a huge part of the market. Dell will introduce some lower tiers with

new product releases this year, as well as revive its

XPS line of computers, a popular line of PCs.

Finally, Uber, Lucid, and Nuro said they began on-road testing for their planned

Robotaxy service.

The companies said the testing began last month, and that Nuro is leading the testing using Robotaxy

engineering prototypes supervised by autonomous vehicle operators. Pending final validation,

the Robotaxi is expected to start production at Lucid's Arizona factory later this year, as well

as launched the service in the San Francisco Bay Area, which will be offered on Uber's

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