People visit the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the United States, Jan. 7, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]

The 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world's premier tech show, officially kicked off in the U.S. city of Las Vegas on Tuesday.

The annual event, running from Tuesday to Friday, draws more than 4,500 exhibitors from more than 160 countries and regions, including about 1,400 startups, according to the U.S. Consumer Technology Association (CTA), organizer of CES.

Attendees can interact with new technologies firsthand, gaining a deeper understanding of their features and potential applications.

During the show, more than 1,100 industry experts will address over 300 conference sessions, offering valuable insights into market trends, consumer behavior, and emerging technologies that help guide strategic decisions and future planning.

Top trends of this year's show include artificial intelligence (AI), digital health, energy transition, mobility, quantum, and sustainability, according to CTA.

"You'll see new applications of AI across the show floor, driving everything from AI-powered chips to AI-enabled drug discovery to smart factory solutions," Gary Shapiro, CEO and vice chair of CTA, told Xinhua.

"CES 2025 will showcase how AI is improving productivity, enhancing customer experiences, and driving medical breakthroughs. We're also excited to partner with Quantum World Congress on conference programming focused on quantum's capacity to enhance security, sensing and powerful computing," he noted.

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivered a 90-minute keynote speech at CES 2025 that included new products to advance gaming, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and agentic AI.

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 proceed, reason, plan and act."

The annual show will also present technologies like wearables, telemedicine, and AI-driven health solutions that aim to improve patient outcomes, enhance wellness, and lower healthcare costs.

More than 1,000 Chinese companies have registered to participate in CES 2025, including global leading brands as well as startups.

Many Chinese exhibitors at CES 2025 have been awarded CES Innovation Awards, Shapiro told Xinhua.

The honorees are in categories like AI, computer hardware and peripherals, digital health, mobile devices and accessories, smart home, sustainability and energy/power, robotics, XR, and pet tech.