The best of CES 2025

We’ve stomped the showroom floors. We’ve scrutinized the booths. We’ve trekked up and down the Las Vegas Strip for hands-on demos. Hundreds of thousands of collective steps and many cups of coffee later, we’re ready to pick the standouts from the biggest show in tech. As it does every year, CES 2025 has brought big innovations, outrageous concepts and impressive solutions to everyday problems. This time, the CNET Group — made up of sibling sites CNET, ZDNET, PCMag, Mashable and Lifehacker — teamed up with the CTA as the official media partner of the Best of CES Awards. After consulting our staff experts and editors, we've named the top products and services at CES and awarded them with the official distinction of Best of CES. To be eligible, a product or service must be an exhibitor at CES 2025 and meet at least one of the following criteria: Includes a compelling new concept or idea Solves a major consumer problem Is new or is an update to an existing product that sets a new bar in performance or quality CNET group has combined forces to name the top products and services found at CES 2025. Credit: CNET Group Staff Nominees were submitted by CNET Group's editorial staff, with finalists voted on by a panel of editors in attendance at CES 2025. Without any further ado, here are our Best of CES 2025 winners: Best AI: Nvidia Cosmos AI model Credit: Nvidia Cosmos feels like the AI platform that will be fueling CES for years to come — "the ChatGPT moment for robotics," as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put it. Trained on 20 million hours of video, Cosmos turns digital models of roads, factories, homes, and other IRL spaces into simulations using generative AI, automating the training data needed to help robots better understand the physical world. With less of a reliance on real-world testing, this will streamline the process of developing the robots and autonomous cars of the future. Cosmos will probably run the best on Nvidia's own chips, but props to the company for planning