Gigabyte showcases immersive human–AI interaction suite at CES 2026

Gigabyte’s CES suite is less about one product and more about a direction: AI experiences that feel native, persistent and personal, running largely on edge hardware. By asking visitors to generate a digital clone that acts as a persistent “passport” through different AI experiences, the company is exploring what continuous identity and context might look like when your devices and assistants are deeply personalized. The emphasis on running workloads locally on RTX 50‑series laptops, with GiMATE as the orchestrating assistant, further underlines the industry’s push to move some of the AI stack off hyperscale clouds and onto client devices.

For the AGI race, rich, interactive demos like this are where user expectations get set. As people get used to AI that remembers them across sessions, responds in real time and blends voice, vision and context, pressure grows on model builders to deliver more capable, multimodal systems that can be distilled onto edge hardware. That, in turn, drives research into smaller, more efficient models and better compression, distillation and retrieval techniques—all useful even for frontier‑scale systems.

Gigabyte, as a hardware vendor, is also jockeying for position in the coming wave of “AI PCs” and local‑AI appliances. If it can show that on‑device inference plus smart thermals and power design enables new categories of experiences, it nudges the ecosystem away from purely cloud‑centric assumptions about how advanced assistants will run.