Nvidia will kick off its annual GTC developer conference next week in San Jose, California, with a keynote from CEO Jensen Huang scheduled for Monday at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET.
GTC (short for GPU Technology Conference) is Nvidia’s flagship annual event, where the chipmaker typically uses the spotlight to announce new products, champion partnerships, and offer 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 directly at SAP Center or live stream the talk on the event website.
This wide-ranging three-day event focuses on what’s next for AI across industries, including healthcare, robotics, self-driving cars, and more.
On the software side, there are rumors that Nvidia will release an open source platform for enterprise AI agents called NemoClaw, as first reported by Wired. The platform provides enterprises with a structured way to build and deploy AI agents (software that can autonomously perform multi-step tasks), and positions Nvidia to mirror similar offerings from companies such as OpenAI.
On the hardware side, the company is rumored to be releasing new chips designed to accelerate the AI inference process. The AI inference process is the process by which an AI model applies what it has learned to generate responses and make decisions, as opposed to the initial training process, which requires much more computing power. Faster, cheaper inference is widely considered to be one of the final bottlenecks to broadly scaling AI applications. If confirmed, the chip would be NVIDIA’s latest effort to dominate not only the training market, where it already has an estimated 80% share, but also the inference market, where competition from custom chips developed by Google, Amazon and others is rapidly increasing.
Kevin Cook, senior equity strategist at Zacks Investment Research, told TechCrunch that attendees should also expect to learn what the company plans to do with its relationship with Groq. Groq reportedly paid $20 billion late last year to inference company Nvidia to license its technology. There’s a lot of curiosity surrounding this partnership, considering what Groq founder Jonathan Ross has said. Sunny Madra, President of Groq. 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 various partnership announcements and demonstrations showcasing Nvidia’s AI capabilities across industries.
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October 13-15, 2026
