The Latest AI Tech Innovations Coming This Year|

Every year at CES, there’s a buzzword or theme that covers the show and AI is probably the most obvious in 2025. The biggest reason why is because it’s transcending a variety of different categories. If you think of everything from home theatre, mobile, audio, gaming, and even over to health and automotive, new forms of artificial intelligence are sprouting as we speak.

Some are still conceptual, like beta or prototype products, whereas others are ready to roll sooner than later. Here’s a look at what you can expect over the next 12 months.

AI in computing

It’s no secret PC manufacturers are using AI assistants in their laptops and desktops already. That process was well underway in 2024, only the difference this time is how that might expand when it comes to working with other applications in 2025 and beyond. Built-in AI platforms, like Lenovo’s AI Now or HP’s Companion AI, among several others, live on-device and effectively help find information or your way around your PC. They work offline, too, letting you search a query without any Internet connection at all. Want to change a setting on your PC or wonder why it’s running sluggishly? Just ask it.

Lenovo is pursuing this from both the consumer and business side. Consider the Yoga Slim 9i, the first laptop with a camera hidden under the screen. Or the Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition that flips back 360-degrees. Both use AI Now and also offer AI-powered tools like Creator Zone and Learning Zone, giving you the ability to create or work more productively with some AI assistance. Those options extend to Lenovo’s ThinkPad lineup, including the X9 Aura Edition laptops, where you can manage documents more efficiently and get help translating speech and documents.

Similar options are also coming from HP and ASUS, establishing all of this as an unrelenting trend. PC manufacturers see AI as one of the biggest advancements in personal computing ever.

Pushing more than pixels

These capabilities really only scratch the surface of where this may all go. NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 50 graphics chip is also looming as a driving force into powering AI-driven processes. Razer’s Blade 16 gaming laptop coming in the next couple of months is a good example of how playing video games looks to evolve with AI assistance. But it also extends to ASUS ROG Strix, Alien Predator, and HP Omen gaming PCs as well.

The difference is these brands are also marketing the power in these laptops as suited for content creators. That could mean the new RTX 50 can help you edit and render a video in far less time. With more robust and faster CPUs coming from Intel and AMD, the next generation of PCs may take a bigger leap than before.

Home theatre gets smarter

AI touchpoints in home theatre settings are both easy to see and work behind the scenes. Consider all the AI-driven processes TCL uses in its new QM6K series of TVs to improve picture quality dynamically based both on what’s onscreen and the ambient light of the room. The technology isn’t going to be limited to one series, either, with new QM7K models coming as well.

Samsung is taking an even broader approach with its Vision AI suite of features. Samsung Vision AI can improve picture and audio quality in real time, also offering second-screen information with support for multiple languages.

Microsoft Copilot+ will also run on select Samsung smart TVs, along with dynamic language translations for any show or movie. If you see someone wearing something you like, you can click on it and get information on what it is and where to find it. Samsung will be limiting this broad AI rollout to its best TVs, so the Neo QLED 8K or 4K, OLED, and The Frame and The Frame Pro.

LG will also pursue a similar path with its new TVs, but will include features like translation and object search to more TVs at different price points. It’s also looking to implement some AI-powered creative tools in products like StanbyME and StanbyME Go through AI-generated images by drawing on them.

Not to mention Hisense, which has its own Hi-View AI Engine X processor that works to smooth transitions and keep picture quality clearer. AI Sound Optimization works to boost audio performance by matching onscreen content for crisper dialogue and more immersive soundscapes. Look for that to go as big as the 116-inch TriChroma LED TV (116UX) and its first consumer-level microLED TV.

Putting on a pair of smart glasses

Smart glasses aren’t new, since the Ray-Ban Meta and TUTT pairs have been around for a while, but the category was easily one of the more noticeable at CES 2025. Many of the brands are from China and not readily available in North America, but their presence and sophistication is a sign that more is to come for these unique wearables.

The Xreal One Pro are something of a hybrid by using augmented reality (AR) to mirror any screen from any device and beam it to your eyes. It could be a laptop, smartphone, or tablet. It could be any computing device with a screen. It’s a spatial computing experience with Xreal’s new X1 chip, offering low-latency 3ms response time and 120Hz refresh rate. That’s good enough for gaming, much less watching a show or working from your laptop.

Another pair from a brand called Halliday use a display to show notifications, messages, translations, and other details—all driven by the onboard AI. And it does this while letting you see everything you normally would with any other pair of glasses because it places the projection towards the corner rather than always right in front of each eye. One of the ideas is you could talk to someone in a different language and see the translation come in at the same time.

Others, like the Sharge Loomos AI glasses can capture 4K photos and 1080p video for up to five minutes. It even has a power bank accessory you can attach to your shoulder to increase recording time. Then, there are the Chamelo Aura Rx, which can electronically adjust the tint and colour for both lenses at four different levels. It happens instantly rather than gradually with current glasses doing the same thing. Plus, they are prescription-ready ranging from +/-100-600.

Going even further

There’s so much more in the broad set of categories presented at the show that it’s hard to do it all justice in one article. From all the robotics to the way AI might impact how vehicles and cities operate, it’s hard to tell where it may all go.

Robot vacuums were seemingly everywhere on the CES show floor, where we’re seeing more innovation in that specific product category. Narwal’s AI-based ability to recognize debris on the ground, as well as how deep to suction to pull out everything from carpet fibres is interesting. Not to mention the built-in mechanical arm in the Roborock Saros S70 to pick up items in the way and store them in its own basin. Wild stuff.

Even Govee’s lighting solutions are advancing in what they can do, dynamically changing colours or adjusting to either music or content playing on a TV. Nanoleaf is also doing the same with a bendable PC Mirror Lightstrip that can stick to the back of a monitor and match colour with anything onscreen. Even more out there is its LED Light Therapy Face Mask, the company’s first wellness device using light. Smart home devices are getting better at knowing what to do and when to do it, adding the kind of efficiency smart home brands have long promised.

I get the sense we will see more AI tools and integrations in audio products in the future, though much of that wasn’t on the show floor this year. The ability to add real-time translation to existing headphones or wireless earbuds, for example. Plus, automatic tuning for speakers where an AI can figure out a room’s acoustics without you doing anything to train it. There was talk of all that at CES but little to actually see or hear.

The AI evolution is underway

CES 2025 showed AI isn’t coming, it’s already here. Platforms and features at the show will either launch this year or evolve and expand from where they were in the last year or two. If you can think of a type of tech device, there’s a good chance AI will play a role in advancing it.

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