Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in San Jose, California, next week with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for Monday at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET.
GTC — which stands for GPU Technology Conference — is Nvidia’s flagship annual event, where the chipmaker typically uses the spotlight to announce new products, champion partnerships and showcase its vision for the future of computing. Huang’s keynote will focus on Nvidia’s role in the future of computing and artificial intelligence. You can watch the two-hour address in person at SAP Center or live broadcast of the speech on the event website.
The broader three-day event focuses on what’s next for artificial intelligence across industries, including healthcare, robotics and autonomous vehicles, among others.
On the software side, Nvidia is rumored to release an open source platform for enterprise artificial intelligence agents, compiled NemoClawas Wired originally reported. The platform would give businesses a structured way to build and deploy AI agents (software that can perform multi-step tasks autonomously) and position Nvidia to mirror similar offerings from companies like OpenAI.
On the hardware side, the company is also rumored to release one new chip designed to speed up the AI inference process — the process by which an artificial intelligence model applies what it has learned to produce answers or make decisions, as opposed to the initial training process, which requires much more computing power. Faster, cheaper inference is widely seen as one of the last bottlenecks in the widespread scaling of AI applications. The chip, if confirmed, would represent Nvidia’s latest attempt to dominate not only the education market, where it already has an estimated 80% share, but also the inference market, where competition from custom chips made by Google, Amazon and others is rapidly intensifying.
Kevin Cook, senior equity analyst at Zacks Investment Research, told TechCrunch that participants should also wait to learn what the company plans to do with its relationship with Groq, the inference firm Nvidia reportedly paid $20 billion late last year to license its technology. There is a lot of curiosity surrounding this tie-up, given that Jonathan Ross, founder of Groq, Sunny Madra, President of Groq, and other members of the Groq team have agreed to join Nvidia to help promote and scale this licensed technology.
Of course, there will also be a series of partnership announcements and demonstrations showcasing Nvidia’s AI capabilities across industries.
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