CES 2027 AI Preview What to Expect in Las Vegas January

CES 2027 (January 6-9, Las Vegas) will showcase four major AI themes: agent operating systems, on-device LLMs under 4B parameters, consumer humanoid robots, and AI glasses (CES, 2026). Expected attendance 130,000+ with NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, Samsung, LG, and Sony as headline exhibitors.

Data last verified September 9, 2026 from CES schedule.

Four themes

1. AI Agent Operating Systems — the first wave of "agent OS" devices. Laptops, phones, and home hubs with built-in AI agents that can take multi-step actions across apps. Microsoft Copilot+ PCs, Apple Intelligence 2, and Google's Gemini Spark ecosystem lead (CES, 2026).

2. On-device LLMs (sub-4B parameters) — efficient models for always-on AI without cloud round-trip. Apple's 3B foundation model, Google's Gemma 2 Nano, Microsoft's Phi-3.5-mini, and Meta's Llama 4 1B are the standard. Target: under 5W power, sub-100ms latency.

3. Consumer humanoid robots — the humanoid market shifts from industrial pilots to consumer. Tesla Optimus Gen 3 (target $20K), Xpeng IRON, Figure 02, and Apptronik Apollo all expected to ship or show consumer variants.

4. AI glasses replacing smartphone AR — Meta Ray-Ban Display 2, Apple Vision Pro 2, Samsung Galaxy Glasses, and Google Glasses 2 all expected. AI glasses are the new AR platform.