Nvidia will start its annual GTC developer conference in San Jose, California, next week, with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote set for Monday at 11am PT / 2pm ET.
GTC — the GPU Technology Conference — is Nvidia’s principal annual event where the chip producer generally showcases new products, promotes partnerships, and presents its vision for the future of computing. Huang’s keynote will emphasize Nvidia’s role in the future of computing and AI. You can attend the two-hour address at the SAP Center or watch the livestream on the event’s website.
The broader three-day conference focuses on future developments in AI across various industries like healthcare, robotics, and autonomous vehicles.
On the software side, it’s speculated that Nvidia will launch an open-source platform for enterprise AI agents, known as NemoClaw, as initially reported by Wired. This platform would provide businesses a structured method for building and deploying AI agents (software capable of performing multi-step tasks independently) and position Nvidia to match similar solutions from companies like OpenAI.
On the hardware front, the company is rumored to introduce a new chip designed to speed up AI inference processing — the stage where an AI model uses what it has learned to produce responses or make decisions, different from the initial training process, which requires much more computing power. Faster, cheaper inference is considered one of the last obstacles to broadly scaling AI applications. The chip, if confirmed, would signify Nvidia’s latest effort to dominate not only the training market, where it already commands an estimated 80% share, but also the inference market, where competition with custom chips from Google, Amazon, and others is rapidly growing.
Kevin Cook, a senior equity strategist at Zacks Investment Research, informed TechCrunch that attendees should also expect updates on Nvidia’s relationship with Groq, the inference company Nvidia reportedly paid $20 billion last year to license its technology. There’s significant interest in this partnership, given that Jonathan Ross, Groq’s founder, Sunny Madra, Groq’s President, and other Groq team members joined Nvidia to help develop and scale that licensed technology.
Naturally, the conference will also feature various partnership announcements and demonstrations showcasing Nvidia’s AI capabilities across different industries.
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