GTC 2026 keynote
Jensen Huang · Mar 16, 2026 · 2h 19m · San Jose
Summary
Jensen Huang opened GTC 2026 at San Jose's SAP Center by unveiling the Vera Rubin platform, the Feynman architecture roadmap, DLSS 5 and the OpenClaw agent ecosystem.
Key themes: AI infrastructure, Robotics · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1The keynote opened by framing the token as the basic unit of modern AI, at NVIDIA GTC 2026, SAP Center, San Jose.0:17
- 2Huang introduced DLSS 5, using 3D guided neural rendering for real time, photoreal 4K performance on local hardware.13:47
- 3Huang said computing demand has increased by 1 million times in the last two years.51:48
- 4NVIDIA Vera Rubin is a new full stack computing platform: seven chips, five rack scale systems, one supercomputer for agentic AI.1:10:08
- 5Beyond Vera Rubin, NVIDIA's next major architecture is Feynman, with a new CPU named Rosa after Rosalind Franklin.1:38:37
- 6OpenClaw, described as the fastest growing open source project in history, lets anyone build a long running AI agent, or claw.1:46:45
- 7NVIDIA IGX Thor, an industrial-grade edge computing platform for real time physical AI, is now generally available.Source
- 8DGX Spark systems are available now, with clustering of up to four systems announced at the show.Source
Announced
2 available the same day| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Vera RubinFull-stack platform, 7 chips, 5 rack-scale systems, 1 supercomputer for agentic AI | Announced |
| Feynman architecture and Rosa CPUNVIDIA's next major architecture beyond Vera Rubin | Announced |
| DLSS 53D-guided neural rendering for real-time photoreal 4K on local hardware | Announced |
| NVIDIA IGX ThorIndustrial-grade edge platform for real-time physical AI | GA |
| OpenClawOpen source long-running agent (claw) framework, hands-on at GTC Park | GA |
| DGX Spark clusteringClustering of up to 4 DGX Spark systems announced | Announced |
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About this keynote
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- Jensen HuangFounder and CEO, NVIDIA
Companies named: Anthropic, AWS, Caterpillar, Cohere, CoreWeave, Databricks, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hitachi Rail, IBM, KION Group, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, Perplexity, Salesforce, Snowflake, Teradyne, Uber
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