Meet Umi: Your Family's New AI Wellness Buddy
Panasonic Unveils AI-Powered Wellness Coach, 'Umi,' at CES 2025
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Mackenzie Ferguson
AI Tools Researcher & Implementation Consultant
At CES 2025, Panasonic has introduced Umi, an AI-powered wellness coach aimed at helping families with goal setting, routine creation, and task management. Powered by Anthropic's Claude AI, Umi integrates with wellness partners like Aaptiv and Calm, offering personalized support. The platform also assists caregivers by monitoring the well-being of aging parents. While promising, questions around privacy and efficacy remain as the U.S. launch is planned for later this year.
Introduction
NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang took the stage for a keynote at CES 2025 to outline the company’s vision for the future of AI in gaming, autonomous vehicles (AVs), robotics, and more. “AI has been advancing at an incredible pace,” Huang said. “It started with perception AI — understanding images, words, and sounds. Then generative AI — creating text, images, and sound. Now, we’re entering the era of ‘physical AI,’ AI that can perceive, reason, plan, and act.” With NVIDIA’s platforms and GPUs at the core, Huang explained how the company continues to fuel breakthroughs across multiple industries while unveiling innovations such as the Cosmos platform, next-gen GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, and compact AI supercomputer Project DIGITS. RTX 50 series: “The GPU is a beast” One of the most significant announcements during CES 2025 was the introduction of the GeForce RTX 50 Series, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell architecture. Huang debuted the flagship RTX 5090 GPU, boasting 92 billion transistors and achieving an impressive 3,352 trillion AI operations per second (TOPS). “GeForce enabled AI to reach the masses, and now AI is coming home to GeForce,” said Huang. Holding the blacked-out GPU, Huang called it “a beast,” highlighting its advanced features, including dual cooling fans and its ability to leverage AI for revolutionary real-time graphics. Set for a staggered release in early 2025, the RTX 50 Series includes the flagship RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 (available 30 January), followed by the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 (February). Laptop GPUs join the lineup in March. In addition, NVIDIA introduced DLSS 4 – featuring ‘Multi-Frame Generation’ technology – which boosts gaming performance up to eightfold by generating three additional frames for every frame rendered.