Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developer convention in San Jose, California, subsequent week with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for Monday at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET.
GTC — which stands for GPU Know-how Convention — is Nvidia’s flagship annual occasion, the place the chipmaker sometimes makes use of the highlight to announce new merchandise, champion partnerships, and lay out its imaginative and prescient for the way forward for computing. Huang’s keynote will deal with Nvidia’s position in the way forward for computing and AI. You possibly can watch the two-hour deal with in individual on the SAP Middle or livestream the discuss on the occasion’s web site.
The broader three-day occasion is targeted on what’s coming subsequent for AI throughout industries, together with healthcare, robotics, and autonomous automobiles, amongst others.
On the software program aspect, it’s rumored that Nvidia will launch an open supply platform for enterprise AI brokers, dubbed NemoClaw, as initially reported by Wired. The platform would give companies a structured approach to construct and deploy AI brokers (software program that may perform multistep duties autonomously) and would place Nvidia to reflect comparable choices from corporations like OpenAI.
On the {hardware} aspect, the corporate can be rumored to be releasing a new chip designed to speed up the AI inference course of — the method by which an AI mannequin applies what it has realized to generate responses or make selections, as distinct from the preliminary coaching course of, which requires much more computing energy. Quicker, cheaper inference is broadly seen as one of many final bottlenecks to scaling AI purposes broadly. The chip, if confirmed, would characterize Nvidia’s newest bid to dominate not simply the coaching market, the place it already instructions an estimated 80% share, however the inference market as effectively, the place competitors from customized chips constructed by Google, Amazon, and others is quick intensifying.
Kevin Cook dinner, a senior fairness strategist at Zacks Funding Analysis, instructed TechCrunch that attendees also needs to anticipate to study what the corporate plans to do with its relationship with Groq, the inference firm Nvidia reportedly paid $20 billion late final yr to license its know-how. There’s lots of curiosity round this tie-up, on condition that Jonathan Ross, Groq’s founder; Sunny Madra, Groq’s president; and different members of the Groq workforce agreed to hitch Nvidia to assist advance and scale that licensed tech.
There’ll, after all, even be a spread of partnership bulletins and demonstrations showcasing Nvidia’s AI capabilities throughout industries.
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October 13-15, 2026