GTC 2024 keynote
Jensen Huang · Mar 18, 2024 · 2h 3m · San Jose, California
Summary
Huang's first in-person GTC in five years unveiled Blackwell, the successor to Hopper, as the engine of a new industrial revolution, and introduced NIM inference microservices as a new way to ship AI software. The back half turned to digital twins in Omniverse and robotics, ending with Project GR00T for humanoid robots.
Key themes: AI infrastructure, Robotics · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Blackwell was unveiled as the successor to Hopper, in a form factor that slides into Hopper systems29:32
- 2The Grace Blackwell system pairs the Grace CPU with Blackwell GPUs over NVLink34:06
- 3Cloud providers, sovereign AI builders and telcos around the world signed up to launch with Blackwell1:00:28
- 4NVIDIA introduced a new way to receive and run AI software: packaged, optimized models you can run in any cloud or on premises (NIM)1:16:54
- 5Isaac Manipulator foundation models for robot arms became available1:49:06
- 6Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots, was announced1:52:22
Announced
1 available the same day| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Blackwell platformB200 GPU and GB200 Grace Blackwell superchip | Announced |
| NVIDIA NIMPackaged inference microservices for models | Announced |
| Isaac ManipulatorFoundation models for robot manipulation | GA |
| Project GR00TFoundation model for humanoid robots | Announced |
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About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2F8yisiS6E
- Jensen HuangFounder and CEO, NVIDIA
Companies named: AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, Nvidia
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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