Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC Developer Conference in San Jose, California next week, starting with a keynote from CEO Jensen Huang on Monday at 11am PT/2pm ET.
GTC, which stands for GPU Technology Conference, is Nvidia’s main annual event, where the chipmaker typically uses the spotlight to announce new products, champion partnerships and lay out its vision for the future of computing. Huang’s keynote will focus on Nvidia’s role in the future of computing and AI. You can watch the two-hour talk in person at the SAP Center or live stream the talk on the event website.
The wide-ranging three-day event focused on the future of AI across industries including healthcare, robotics, and autonomous vehicles.
On the software side, rumors are swirling that Nvidia will launch an open source platform for enterprise AI agents called NemoClaw, as first reported by Wired. The platform provides companies with a structured way to build and deploy AI agents (software that can perform multi-step tasks autonomously) and positions Nvidia to mirror similar products from companies like OpenAI.
On the hardware side, the company is also rumored to be launching new chips designed to accelerate AI inference processes. The process by which an AI model applies what it has learned to generate a response or make a decision is different from the initial training process, which requires much more computing power. Faster and cheaper inference is widely believed to be one of the final bottlenecks in broadly scaling AI applications. If confirmed, the chip would be Nvidia’s latest attempt to dominate not only the education market, where it already has about 80% share, but also the inference market, where competition is rapidly increasing from custom chips built by Google, Amazon and others.
Kevin Cook, chief equity strategist at Zacks Investment Research, told TechCrunch that attendees should also know what the company plans to do with its relationship with Groq. Inference company Nvidia reportedly paid $20 billion to license the technology late last year. There’s a lot of curiosity about this partnership, considering that Groq founder Jonathan Ross, Groq president Sunny Madra, and other members of the Groq team have agreed to join Nvidia to help advance and scale the licensed technology.
Of course, there will also be a variety of partnership announcements and demonstrations showcasing Nvidia’s AI capabilities across the industry.
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