“Welcome to my house,” NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said as he greeted us, casually gesturing to his new digs and casually cooking up — what else — a breakthrough AI computer, during a short film the company released this week. No big deal, right? Well, it is. The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super is here, and it’s not just tiny; it’s redefining generative AI for edge devices, all for the jaw-droppingly low price of $249.
Huang dives right in, pulling the pint-sized marvel out of his kitchen setup like it’s the most natural thing in the world.
“I might have cooked it a little bit too long,” he joked, holding the compact powerhouse that’s been “shrunk” down to a size that belies its capabilities. But don’t be fooled by its diminutive form — the Jetson Orin Nano Super packs a punch with almost 70 trillion operations per second, sipping a mere 25 watts of power.
“This little thing runs everything that the HGX does,” Huang said, as if we’re supposed to process the enormity of that statement while staring at a palm-sized computer. “It even runs large language models. You could use it for a robot, a workstation — it’s an incredible computer.” At this point, you’d be forgiven for thinking this tiny gadget could probably whip up a soufflé, too.
Remember when NVIDIA introduced its robotics processors, back when nobody understood what they were building? Huang does.
“We imagined someday these deep learning models would evolve, and we’d have robots of all kinds,” he reflected, adding with his signature mix of excitement and deadpan delivery. “Everything that moves would be robotic,” he adds. From two-legged humanoids to robots on wheels and even the imaginably absurd three-legged models, it seems like Huang’s vision is here.
And the applications? Endless.
“You could create an agentic AI that reasons and plans,” said Huang. Translation: Your next DIY robot might not only vacuum the living room but also schedule its own maintenance.
Available globally, the Jetson Orin Nano Super isn’t just a developer’s dream — it’s a challenge to your imagination. As Huang summed up: “Go get it. Enjoy robotics.” Or, at the very least, enjoy the fact that your kitchen could be cooking up AI next.
