What was announced at the NVIDIA GTC 2024 keynote?

NVIDIA Blackwell platform (Announced), NVIDIA NIM (Announced), Isaac Manipulator (GA), Project GR00T (Announced).

What were the highlights of the NVIDIA GTC 2024 keynote?

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. Blackwell was unveiled as the successor to Hopper, in a form factor that slides into Hopper systems. The Grace Blackwell system pairs the Grace CPU with Blackwell GPUs over NVLink. Cloud providers, sovereign AI builders and telcos around the world signed up to launch with Blackwell.

Who gave the NVIDIA GTC 2024 keynote?

Jensen Huang, on 2024-03-18 in San Jose, California.

GTC Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

NVIDIA GTC 2024 · Jensen Huang · Mar 18, 2024 · 2h 3m · San Jose, California

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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

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Blackwell was unveiled as the successor to Hopper, in a form factor that slides into Hopper systems
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The Grace Blackwell system pairs the Grace CPU with Blackwell GPUs over NVLink
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Cloud providers, sovereign AI builders and telcos around the world signed up to launch with Blackwell
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NVIDIA introduced a new way to receive and run AI software: packaged, optimized models you can run in any cloud or on premises (NIM)
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Isaac Manipulator foundation models for robot arms became available
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Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots, was announced