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LATENT SPACE Disclosure
NVIDIA Brev launches DGX Spark hardware registration in early access
“And one thing we just launched at CES, it's in, it's still in like early access. We're ironing out some kinks, but it should be ready by GTC. You can register your Spark on Brev.”
Nader Khalil Mar 8, 2026 ▶ 13:29 Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
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NVIDIA releases DGX Spark model router to dynamically route local inference
“We actually, for CES, we just released the model router. So for DGX Spark, where you can have a local model that's running on the Spark and then also a foundation model. And then the model order decides when to send queries to which one.”
Nader Khalil Mar 8, 2026 ▶ 1:17:16 Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
Dave Morin: Only one to five CES gadgets launch each year
“It's like one to five gadgets. From CES every year. See the light of day.”
Dave Morin Jan 9, 2026 ▶ 2:48 Founders Beware: Illiquid Valuations vs. Real‑World Taxes · More or Less Podcast
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Sutin: Bee intentionally avoided an over-hyped Rabbit-style CES launch
“We didn't want to do like a big over hypey promised kind of rabbit launch. Cause I mean, they did hats off to them, like on the presentation and everything, obviously, but like, you know, we want to let the product kind of speak for itself and like, get it out…”
Ethan Sutin Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 37:47 Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
Sutin: Hardware startups get immense value at CES without buying booths
“I think to do it like a big rabbit style or to have a huge show on there, like you need to plan that six months in advance. And it's very expensive, but like, if you know, go there, there's everybody's there, all the media is there. There's a lot of some pre-s…”
Ethan Sutin Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 38:19 Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
Sam Lessin: CES is an extremely midwit event
“To me, CES is an extremely midwit event, right? Like it's just for like the midwits, you know?”
Sam Lessin Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 3:53 #81: Meta's Community Notes: More Speech and Fewer Mistakes? · More or Less Podcast
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Eric Migicovsky pitched Pebble at CES in coffee shops without a booth
“I remember that when I was working on Pebble we actually went to CES, which is this large consumer electronics show in Vegas. We didn't have a booth. We just went in gorilla style. We just like randomly started setting up in setting up meetings with potential …”
Eric Migicovsky Jul 25, 2019 ▶ 17:35 Eric Migicovsky - How to Talk to Users · Y Combinator
a16z Insight
Sinofsky: Shared supply cycles cause parallel product trends at CES
“They all are dealing with the next parts of why you go to CES, which is these ingredients that sort of bubble up, and then they take about the same amount of time for a big company to act, and they all show up with it at the same time.”
Steven Sinofsky Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 2:10 a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
a16z Insight
Evans: Entrepreneurs can source entire smart speaker supply chains at CES
“You can start at one end and walk out at the other end with a complete smart speaker.”
Benedict Evans Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 6:15 a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
a16z Insight
Evans: CES is primarily a B2B hardware supply chain exhibition
“You're actually not seeing the consumer bit. You're mostly, mostly what you're seeing is everything that sits behind the point of the spear.”
Benedict Evans Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 7:40 a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond
a16z Insight
Evans: Big tech product launches often reflect bureaucracy, not strategy
“Is, particularly when you look at kind of a super big company that's got lots of stuff going on, is there are some things that are actually, this is the board level fundamental strategy of what they think is crucial to the existence of the company in the next …”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:40 a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
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Sinofsky: CES offers an unmatched view of the tech supply chain
“What I really do love is just, it's an opportunity to sort of see everything at once. Now, it's not quite everything, because a bunch of the big companies don't go, you can't really see a ton of startups, but it really is like a snapshot of a massive amount of…”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:30 a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners
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Benedict Evans: Smartphone supply chain components power most consumer electronics at CES
“The thing that you see, the sort of, the thing that grounds everything, is that this is kind of all about the smartphone supply chain. I mean, not, you know, there's a few things like TVs and so on that aren't, but a huge proportion of what you see is basicall…”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:21 a16z Podcast | Software is What Distinguishes the Hardware Winners

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