NVIDIA GTC 2026: Live Updates on What’s Next in AI

At GTC 2026 in San Jose, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang addressed a capacity crowd at SAP Center, thanking partners and highlighting the conference's 450+ sponsors, 1,000 sessions, and 2,000 speakers.

Huang marked the 20th anniversary of CUDA, describing it as the "flywheel" driving accelerated computing and the platform supporting "every single phase of the AI lifecycle."

He introduced DLSS 5 for GeForce, demonstrating how 3D-guided neural rendering enables real-time, photoreal 4K performance on local hardware.

Huang detailed partnerships with IBM, Dell, Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, and CoreWeave, and highlighted CUDA-X libraries as NVIDIA's "crown jewels" across automotive, healthcare, quantum, robotics, and other sectors.

He cited $150 billion in venture investment into AI startups including OpenAI and Anthropic, noting computing demand has increased by "1 million times" and projecting at least $1 trillion in NVIDIA revenue from 2025 through 2027.

Huang announced the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, a full-stack computing system comprising seven chips, five rack-scale systems, and one supercomputer designed for agentic AI, featuring the new Vera CPU and BlueField-4 STX storage architecture.

The keynote concluded with an AI-generated musical recap featuring robots and "TJ" (Toy Jensen), an AI avatar created by NVIDIA's creative team using generative AI tools for image, video, and music generation.