- Title: 'It's insane': Nvidia conference goers excited for new AI advancements
- Date: 18th March 2025
- Summary: SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MARCH 18, 2025) (Reuters) STAGE WITH VIEWING SCREEN FOR NVIDIA CEO KEYNOTE AT NVIDIA GTC NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG ON SCREEN NVIDIA GTC SIGNAGE VARIOUS OF CROWDS (SOUNDBITE) (English) LAURA SCHWEIGER, SENIOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER AT LIGHTLY, A MACHINE LEARNING COMPANY BASED IN SWITZERLAND, SAYING: "Yes, I mean, it's insane. Like wh
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- Location: SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
- City: SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
- Country: US
- Topics: Company News Markets,Economic Events,North America
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- Story Text: Thousands of tech industry representatives gathered in downtown San Jose, California, on Tuesday (March 18) to watch the keynote by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the company's annual software developer conference.
Speaking from the SAP Center, Huang announced a slew of new products, including its next GPU chip Blackwell Ultra, a chip system called Vera Rubin, a powerful new personal computer called DGX Workstation based on Blackwell chips, and a deal with automaker General Motors to build its self-driving car fleet.
Just a mile (1.6 kilometer) away, people who couldn't get into the SAP Center watched on a big screen outside of the convention center, where exhibitors will show off their latest products in AI-related tech this week.
One conference goer described the atmosphere as "insane," comparing it to a Taylor Swift concert.
Nvidia's big moneymaking chips face pressure from technological change as AI markets shift from "training" AI models such as chatbots on huge troves of data to make them smart, to "inference," which is when the model uses its intelligence to produce answers for users.
Much of Nvidia's success stems from the decade the Santa Clara, California-based company spent building software tools to impress AI researchers and developers - but it was Nvidia's data center chips, which sell for tens of thousands of dollars each, that accounted for the bulk of its $130.5 billion in sales last year.
Its stock has more than quadrupled in value over the past three years as the company powered the rise of advanced AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude and many others.
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