By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-01-12 05:13:00
One of the highlights of the CES event last week was the Nvidia Corp. keynote delivered by Chief Executive Jensen Huang. Though there are many focal points to an event such as CES, the one pervasive theme is artificial intelligence, and no company has become more synonymous with AI than Nvidia.
That’s why thousands of people queued up for hours in advance to hear the latest and greatest vision and product news from the company’s leader. While there was lots of great product news, there were some important takeaways worth calling out above and beyond the product news.
Agentic will be the new interface for applications
During his keynote, Huang painted a picture of a world where the primary interface for many of the work tasks we do will shift to agentic agents. He cited several examples where this is happening today, including ServiceNow Inc., Palantir Technologies Inc. and Snowflake Inc. Historical interfaces, such as filling out spreadsheets, command lines and event graphical user interfaces are manually intensive and generally require the human to be the integration point between products.
Agentic agents, such as Nvidia Nemotron, are not only simpler but can reason, use tools, plan and search removing much of the heavy lifting involved in work today. My research has found that workers spend up to 40% of their time managing work instead of doing the actual work and agentic agents can take that time to zero. There is so much fear and around AI taking jobs,…
