NVIDIA Corporation ($NVDA)

Earnings Call Transcript · March 16, 2026

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Welcome to the stage, NVIDIA Founder and CEO, Jensen Huang.

Jen-Hsun Huang

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Welcome to GTC. I just want to remind you, this is a tech conference. All these people lining up so early in the morning, all of you in here, it's great to see you. GTC. GTC, we're going to talk about technology. We're going to talk about platforms. NVIDIA has 3 platforms. You think that we mostly talk about one of them. It's related to CUDA X. Our systems is another platform. And now we have a new platform called AI factories. We're going to talk about all of them. And most importantly, we're going to talk about ecosystems. But before I start, let me thank our pregame show hosts. I thought they did a great job. Sara Go of conviction, Alfred, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA's first venture capitalist. Gavin Baker, NVIDIA's first major institutional investor. These 3 people are deep in technology, deep in what's going on. And of course, they have just a really broad reach of technology ecosystem. And then, of course, all of the VIPs that I hand selected to join us today, All-Star team. I want to thank all of you for that. I also want to thank all the companies that are here. NVIDIA, as you know, is a platform company. We have technology, we have our platforms. We have rich ecosystem. And today, there are probably 100% of the $100 trillion of industry here, 450 companies sponsored this event. I want to thank you, 1,000 technical sessions, 2,000 speakers. This is -- this conference is going to cover every single layer of the 5-layer cake of artificial intelligence from land power and shell, the infrastructure to chips to the platforms, the models and of course, the most important and ultimately, what's going to take -- get this industry taken off is all of the applications. When it all began here. This is the 20th anniversary of CUDA. We've been working on CUDA for 20 years. For 20 years, we've been dedicated to this architecture, this revolutionary invention, SIMT, single instruction, multi-threaded, writing scaler Code could spun off into multi-threaded application, much, much easier to program than Cindy. We recently added tiles so that we could help people program Tensor cores and the structures of mathematics that are so foundational to artificial intelligence today. thousands of tools and compilers and frameworks and libraries in open source, there's a couple of hundred thousand public projects. CUDA literally is integrated into every single ecosystem. This chart basically describes 100% of NVIDIA's strategies. You've been watching me talk about this slide from the very beginning. And ultimately, the single hardest thing to achieve is the thing on the bottom, installed base. It has taken us 20 years to now have built up hundreds of millions of GPUs and computing systems around the world that run CUDA. We are in every cloud. We're in every computer company. We serve just about every single industry. The installed base of CUDA is the reason why the flywheel is accelerating. The installed base is what attracts developers who then creates new algorithms that achieves a breakthrough. For example, deep learning. There are so many others. Those breakthroughs leads to entirely new markets, which builds new ecosystems around them with other companies that join, which creates a larger installed base. This flywheel is now accelerating. The number of downloads of NVIDIA libraries is incredibly accelerating. It's at a very large scale and growing faster than ever. This flywheel is what makes this computing platform able to sustain so much applications, so many new breakthroughs. But most importantly, it also enables these infrastructures to have extraordinarily useful life. And the reason for that is very obvious. There are so many applications that you can run on NVIDIA CUDA. We support the entire -- every single phase of the AI life cycle. We address every single data processing platform. We accelerate scientific principal solvers of all different kinds. And so the application reach is so great that once you install NVIDIA GPUs, the useful life of it is incredibly high. It is also one of the reasons why Ampere that we shipped some 6 years ago, the pricing of Ampere in the cloud is going up. And so all of that is made possible fundamentally because the installed base is high, the flywheel is high, the developer reach is great. And when all of that happens, and we continuously update our software, the computing cost declines. The combination of accelerated computing speeding up applications tremendously. Meanwhile, as we continue to nurture and continue to update software over its life, not only do you get the first-time pop, you get the continuous cost reduction of accelerated computing over time. And we're willing to nurture, willing to support every single one of these GPUs in the world because they're all architecturally compatible. We're willing to do so because the installed base is so large, if we release a new optimization, it benefits millions. This applies to everybody in the world. This combination of dynamics is what makes the NVIDIA architecture expand its reach, accelerating its growth at the same time, driving down computing costs, which ultimately encourages new growth. So CUDA is at the center of it. But our journey, the CUDA actually started 25 years ago. GeForce I know how many of you grew up with GeForce. GeForce is NVIDIA's greatest marketing campaign. We attract future customers starting long before you could afford to pay for it yourself. Your parents paid. Your parents paid parents paid for you to be NVIDIA customers. And every single year, they paid up year after year after year until someday you became an amazing computer scientist and became a proper customer, a proper developer. But this is the house that GeForce made. 25 years ago, we started our journey, which led to CUDA. 25 years ago, we invented the programmable shader, a perfectly unobvious invention to make an accelerator programmable, the world's first programmable accelerator, the pixel shader. 25 years ago, that led us to explore further and further 20 years later, 5 years later, the invention of CUDA. One of the biggest investments that we made, and we couldn't afford it at the time and it consumed the vast majority of our company's profits was to take CUDA on the backs of GeForce to every single computer. We dedicated ourselves to create this platform because we felt so much -- we felt so strongly about its potential. But ultimately, the company's dedication to it despite the hardships in the beginning, believing in every single day for 13 generations or 20 years, we now have CUDA installed everywhere. The Pixel shader led to, of course, the revolution of GeForce. And then 10 years ago, we introduced about 10 years ago, what is it, 8 years ago, we introduced RTX a complete redesign of our architecture for the modern era of computer graphics. GeForce brought CUDA to the world. GeForce, therefore, enabled Alex Krusewvski and Ilya Suskober and Jeff Hinton, Andrew Ang and so many others to discover that the GPU could be their friend in accelerating deep learning. It started the big bang of AI. 10 years ago, we decided that we would fuse programmable shading and introduced 2 new ideas, ray tracing, hardware ray tracing, which is incredibly hard to do and a new idea at the time, imagine about 10 years ago, we thought that AI would revolutionize computer graphics. Just as GeForce brought AI to the world, AI is now going to go back and revolutionize how computer graphics is done all together. Well, today, I'm going to show you something of the future. This is our next generation of graphics technology. We call it neural rendering, the fusion of 3D graphics and artificial intelligence. This is DLSS5. Take a look at it. [Presentation]

Jen-Hsun Huang

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Incredible? Computer graphics comes to life. Now what did we do? We fused controllable 3D graphics, the ground truth of virtual worlds, the structured data. Remember this word, the structured data of virtual worlds, of generated worlds. We combine 3D graphics, structured data with generative AI, probabilistic computing. One of them is completely predictive, the other one, probabilistic, yet highly realistic. We combine these 2 ideas -- combine these 2 ideas, controlled through structured data, controlled perfectly and yet generating at the same time. And as a result, -- the content is beautiful, amazing as well as controllable. This concept of fusing structured information and generative AI will repeat itself in one industry after another industry after another industry. Structured data is the foundation of trustworthy AI. Well, this is going to scare you a little bit. I'm going to flip the slide and don't gasp. So we're going to go through the schematic for the rest of the time. This is my best slide. Every time I ask the team, what's my best slide? Repeatedly, this was it. They say, don't do it, Jensen, don't do it. I said, no. These seats are free for some of you. So this is your price of mission. So this is structured data. You've heard of it, SQL, Spark, Pandas, Velox, some of these really, really important, very large platforms, Snowflake, Databricks, EMR, Amazon EMR, Azure Fabric, Google Cloud, BigQuery. All of these platforms are processing data frames. These data frames are giant spreadsheets, and they hold all of life's information. This is the structured data, the ground truth of business. This is the ground truth of enterprise computing. Well, now we're going to have AI use structured data, and we better accelerate the living daylights out of it. It used to be okay, and we would -- of course, we would accelerate structured data so that we could do more. We could do it more cheaply, we could do it more frequently per day and keep the company running at a much more synchronized way. However, in the future, what's going to happen is these data structures are going to be used by AI, and AI is going to be much, much faster than us. Future agents are going to use structured databases as well. And then, of course, the unstructured database. the generative database. This database represents the vast majority of the world, vector databases, unstructured data, PDFs, videos, speeches, all of the world's information, about 90% of what's generated every single year is unstructured data. Until now, this data has been completely useless to the world. We read it. We put it into our file system, and that's it. Unfortunately, we can't query it. We can't search for it. It's hard to do that. And the reason for that is because there's no easy indexing of unstructured data. You have to understand it's meaning, its purpose. And so now we have AI do that, just as AI was able to solve multi-modality perception -- and understanding, you can use that same technology, multimodality perception and understanding to go read a PDF to understand its meaning. And from that meaning, embed it into a larger structure that we can search into, we can query into. NVIDIA created 2 foundational libraries, just like we created RTX for 3D graphics. We created CDF for data frames, structured data. We created CVS for vector stores, semantic data, unstructured data, AI data. These 2 platforms are going to be 2 of the most important platforms in the future. Super excited to see its adoption throughout the network, this complicated network of the world's data processing systems. And the reason for that is because data processing has been around a long time. And therefore, so many different companies and platforms and services. It has taken us a long time to integrate deeply into this ecosystem. I'm super proud of the work that we're doing here. And then today, we're announcing several of them. IBM, the inventor of SQL, one of the most important domain-specific languages of all time is accelerating WatsonX data with CDF. Let's take a look at it. [Presentation]

Jen-Hsun Huang

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NVIDIA accelerates data processing in the cloud. We also accelerate data processing on-prem. As you know, Dell is the world-leading computer systems maker, and they also are one of the world's leading storage providers, and they worked with us to create the Dell AI data platform that integrates QDF and QVS to create an accelerated data platform, well, for the era of AI. And this is an example of what they did with NTT Data, huge speed up. This is cloud -- Google Cloud. And Google Cloud, as you know, we've been working with Google Cloud for a very long time. We accelerate Google's Vertex AI. We now accelerate BigQuery, really important framework and really important platform. And this is an example of our work together with Snapchat, where we reduced their cost of computing by nearly 80%. When you accelerate data processing, when you accelerate computing, you get the benefit of speed, you get the benefit of scale, but most importantly, you also get the benefit of cost. And so all of those come together as one. It was originally called Moore's Law. Moore's Law was about getting performance doubling every couple of years. It's another way of saying, -- so long as the price remains about the same and most computers remained about the same, you're also getting twice the performance every year or you're reducing the cost of computing every single year. Well, Moore's Law has run out of steam. We need a new approach. Accelerated computing allows us to take these giant leaps forward. And as you will see later, because we continue to optimize the algorithms and NVIDIA is an algorithm company, as we continue to optimize the algorithms and because our reach is so large and our installed base is so large, we can reduce the computing cost, increasing the scale, increasing the speed for everybody continuously. This is Google Cloud. You can see this pattern I just mentioned. I just wanted to show you 3 versions of it. NVIDIA built the accelerated computing platform. has a bunch of libraries on top. I gave you 3 examples. RTX is one of them, QDF is another, CVS, and we'll show you a few more. These libraries sit on top of our platform. But ultimately, we integrate into the world's cloud services, into the world's OEMs and together and other platforms that I'll show you, together, we're able to reach the world. This pattern, NVIDIA, Google Cloud, Snapchat will repeat over and over again and it kind of looks like this. And so this is one example, NVIDIA with Google Cloud. We accelerate Vertex AI. We excel a BigQuery. We accelerate -- I'm super proud of the work that we've done with JAKs and XLA. We are incredible on PyTorch. We're the only accelerator in the world that's incredible on PyTorch and incredible on JAKs and XLA. And the customers that we support, the base 1, the CrowdStrike, Puma, Salesforce, they're not our customers, but they're customers, developers of ours that we've integrated the NVIDIA technologies into that we can then land on the clouds. Our relationship with cloud service providers are essentially us bringing customers to them. We integrate our libraries, we accelerate workloads, and we land those customers in the clouds. And so as you could see, most of our cloud service providers love working with us, and they're always asking us to land the next customer on their cloud. And I just want to let you know, there are a lot of customers. We're going to accelerate everybody. And so there will be lots and lots of customers we'll be able to land in your cloud. Just be patient with us. And so this is Google Cloud. This is AWS. We've been working with AWS a long time. And one of the areas -- one of the things I'm super excited about this year is we're going to bring OpenAI to AWS. And so it's going to drive enormous consumption of cloud computing at AWS. It's going to expand the reach and expand the compute of OpenAI. And as you know, they are completely compute constrained. And so AWS, we accelerate EMR, we accelerate SageMaker, we accelerate Bedrock. NVIDIA is integrated really deeply into AWS. They were our first cloud partner, Microsoft Azure. NVIDIA's A100 supercomputer was the first one we built was for NVIDIA. The first one we installed was at Azure, and that led to the big successful partnership with OpenAI. But we've been working with Azure for quite a long time. We accelerate Azure Cloud. Now it's their AI foundry, we partner deeply with. We accelerate Bing Search. We work with them on Azure regions. This is one of the areas that is incredibly important as we continue to expand AI throughout the world, one of the capabilities that we offer is confidential computing that in confidential computing, you want to make sure that even the operator cannot see your data. Even the operator cannot touch or see your models. Confidential computing, NVIDIA's GPUs is the first ones in the world to do that. It's now able to support confidential computing and protected deployment of these very valuable OpenAI models and Anthropic models throughout clouds and different regions and all because of our confidential computing. Confidential computing is super important. And here's an example where we have different customers that we work with. Synopsys, a great partner of ours. We're accelerating all of their EDA and CAE workflows. And then we landed at Microsoft Azure. We were Oracle's first AI customer. Most people would have thought we were their first supplier. We were their first supplier also, but we were their first AI customer. I'm quite proud of the fact that I explained AI clouds to Oracle for the first time, and we were their first customer. Since then, they've really taken off. We've landed a whole bunch of our partners there, Cohere and Fireworks and of course, very famously, OpenAI. A great partnership with CoreWeave. They're the world's first AI native cloud, a company that was built with only one singular purpose to provision, to host GPUs as the era of accelerated computing showed up and to host for AI clouds. They've got some fantastic customers, and they're growing incredibly. One of the platforms that I'm quite excited about is Palantir and Dell. The 3 of our companies have made it possible to stand up a brand-new type of AI platform, the Palantir Oncology platform and AI platform. And we could stand up these platforms in any country, in any air-gapped region, completely on-prem, completely on site, completely in the field. AI could be deployed literally everywhere. Without our confidential computing capability, without our ability to build the end-to-end system as well as offer the entire accelerated computing and AI stack from data processing, whether it's vectors or structures, all the way to AI, it wouldn't have been possible. I wanted to show you these examples. This is our special working relationship with the world's cloud service providers. And many -- well, all of them are here, and I get the benefit of seeing them during both tour, and it's just so incredibly exciting. I just want to thank all of you for the hard work. What NVIDIA has done is this. And you're going to see this theme over and over again. NVIDIA is vertically integrated, the world's first vertically integrated but horizontally open company. And the reason that's necessary is very simple. Accelerated computing is not a chip problem. Accelerated computing is not a systems problem. Accelerated computing has a missing word. We just never say it anymore. Application acceleration. If I could make a computer run everything faster, that's called a CPU. But that's run out of steam. The only way for us to accelerate applications going forward and continue to bring tremendous speed up, tremendous cost reduction is through application or domain-specific acceleration. I dropped that phrase in the front, and therefore, it just became accelerated computing. And that is the reason why NVIDIA has to be library after library, domain after domain, vertical after vertical. We are a vertically integrated computing company. There is no other way. We have to understand the applications. We have to understand the domain. We have to understand fundamentally the algorithms, and we have to figure out how to deploy the algorithm in whatever scenario it wants to be deployed, whether it's a data center, cloud, on-prem at the edge or a robotic system, all of those computing systems are different. And finally, the systems and chips. We are vertically integrated. What makes it incredibly powerful and the reason why you saw all the slides is because NVIDIA is horizontally open. We'll work and integrate NVIDIA's technology into whatever platform you would like us to integrate into. We offer you the software, we offer you libraries. We integrate with your technology so that we can bring accelerated computing to everybody in the world. Well, this GTC is really a great demonstration of that. Most of the time, most of the time, you'll see me talk about these verticals, and I'll use some examples. But in every single case, whether it's automotive -- by the way, financial services, the largest percentage of attendees at this GTC is from the financial services industry. I know I'm hoping it's developers, not traders. Guys, Here's one thing I wanted to say. And so in the audience represents NVIDIA's ecosystem, upstream of our supply chain and downstream of our supply chain. And we work -- we think about our supply chain upstream and downstream. And it's just so exciting that our entire upstream supply chain this last year, irrespective of whether you're a 50-year-old company, we have 70-year-old companies. We have a 150-year-old company who are now part of NVIDIA's supply chain and partnering with us either upstream or downstream. And last year, -- you had your record year. Did you not? Congratulations. We're on to something here. This is the beginning of something very, very big. And so if you look at accelerated computing, we've now set the computing platform. But in order for us to activate those computing platforms, we need to have domain-specific libraries that solve very important problems in each one of the verticals that we address. You see us addressing every single one of those. autonomous vehicles, our reach, our breadth, -- our impact incredible. We have a track on that. Financial services, I just mentioned. Algorithmic trading is going from classical machine learning with human feature engineering called the quants did that, to now supercomputers, studying massive amounts of data, discovering insight and discovering patterns by itself. And so this is going through its deep learning and its transformer moment. Health care is going through their ChatGPT moment, some really exciting work that we're there. We have a great keynote track here. We have a great Knot track Kimberly-Pow is a great keynote track for health care. We're talking about AI physics or AI biology for drug discovery, AI agents for customer service and support of diagnosis. And of course, physical AI, robotic systems. All these different vectors of AI have different platforms that NVIDIA provides. Industrial, we are completely resetting and starting the largest build-out of human history. And most of the world's industries, building AI factories, building chip plants, building computer plants are represented here today. Media and entertainment, gaming, of course, real-time AI platform so that we could translation and broadcast support and live games and live video, enormous amount of it will be augmented with AI. We have a platform called Holoscan. Quantum, there are 35 different companies here building with us the next generation of quantum GPU hybrid systems, retail and CPG, using NVIDIA for supply chain, using -- creating agentic shopping systems. AI agents for customer support, a lot of work being done here, $35 trillion industry. Robotics, $50 trillion industry in manufacturing. NVIDIA has been working in this area for a decade now, building 3 computers, the fundamental computers necessary to build robotic systems. We are integrated with working with literally every single company that we know of building robots. We have 110 robots here at the show and then telecommunications. -- about as large as the world's IT industry, about $2 trillion. And we see, of course, base stations everywhere. It's one of the world's infrastructures. It was the infrastructure of the last generation of computing. That infrastructure is going to get completely reinvented. And the reason for that is very simple. That base station, which is -- it does one thing, which is base station. is going to be an AI infrastructure platform in the future. AI will run at the edge. And so lots of, lots of great discussion there, and our platform there is called Aerial our AI RAN, big partnership with Nokia, big partnership with T-Mobile and many others. At the core of our business, everything that I just mentioned, computing platforms, but very importantly, our CUDAX libraries. Our CUDA-X libraries is the algorithm, the algorithms that NVIDIA invents. We are an algorithm company. That's what makes us special. That's what makes it possible for me to be able to go into every single one of these industries, imagine the future and have the world's best computer scientists describe and solve problems, refactor it, reexpress it and turn it into a library. We have so many. I think we have -- at this show, we are announcing 100 libraries, 70 libraries, maybe 40 models. And that's just at the show. We're updating these all the time. We're updating them all the time. The libraries is the crown jewels of our company. It is what makes it possible for that platform, the computing platform to be activated in service of solving a problem, making impact. One of the biggest -- one of the most important libraries that we ever created, CDNN, CUDA deep neural networks. It completely revolutionized artificial intelligence, caused a big bang of modern AI. Let me show you a short video about CUDA-X. [Presentation]

Jen-Hsun Huang

Executives
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Everything you saw was a simulation. Some of it was principal solvers, fundamental physics solvers. Some of it was AI surrogates, AI physical models and some of it was physical AI robotics models. Everything was simulated. Nothing was animated, nothing was articulated. Everything was completely simulated. That is what fundamentally NVIDIA does. It is through the connection of understanding of the algorithms with our computing platforms that we're able to open up to unlock these opportunities. NVIDIA is a vertically integrated computing company with open horizontal integration with the world. So that's CUDAX. Well, just now you saw a whole bunch of companies. You saw Walmart and the L'Oreal and incredible companies, established companies, JPMorgan and Roche. And these are companies that define society to today. Toyota is here. These are some of the largest companies in the world. It is also true that there's a whole bunch of companies you've never heard of. These are companies, we call them AI natives, a whole bunch of small companies. The list is gigantic. I couldn't -- this is just a little tiny bit of it. And I couldn't decide whether to show you more or show you less. And so I made it so that you couldn't see any. And nobody's feelings are hurt. However, inside this list are a bunch of brand-new companies. There are companies like, for example, you might have heard a couple of them, OpenAI, Anthropic, but there's a whole bunch of others. There's a whole bunch of others, and they serve different verticals. Something happened in the last 2 years, particularly this last year. We've been working with the AI natives for a long time. And this last year, it just skyrocketed. I'll explain to you why it happened. This industry has skyrocketed, $150 billion of investment into venture investment into start-ups, the largest in human history. This is also the first time that the scale of the investments went from millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars and billions of dollars. And the reason for that is this is the first time in history that every single one of these companies needs compute and lots and lots of it. They need tokens, lots and lots of it. They're either going to create and build and create tokens and generate tokens or they're going to integrate, add value to tokens that are available created by Anthropic and OpenAI and others. And so this industry is different in so many different ways, but the one thing that is very clear, the impact that they're making, the incredible value that they're delivering already is quite tangible. AI natives, all because we reinvented computing. Just like during the PC revolution, a whole bunch of new companies were created. Just as during the Internet revolution, a whole bunch of companies were created in the mobile cloud, a whole bunch of companies were created. Each one of them had their own standards, and we're talking about one of the major standards that just happened, incredibly important. And this generation, we also have our own large number of very, very special companies. We reinvented computing. It stands to reason there's going to be a whole new crop of really important companies, consequential companies for the future of the world. The Googles, the Amazons, the Metas, consequential companies that have come as a result of the last computing platform shift. We are now at the beginning of a new platform shift. But what happened in the last couple of years? Well, we've been watching, as you know, we've been working on deep learning and working on AI. The big bang of modern AI, we were right there at the spot, and we've been advancing this field for quite some time. But why the last 2 years? What happened in the last 2 years? Well, 3 things. ChatGPT, of course, started the generative AI era. It's able to not just understand, perceive and understand, it's able to also translate and generate generation of unique content. I showed you the fusion of generative AI with computer graphics and it brought computer graphics to life. You guys -- just everybody in the world should be using ChatGPT. I know I use it every single morning, used the ply this morning. And so ChatGPT was the generative AI era. The second, by the way, generative computing, versus the way we used to do computing. It's not -- it's -- generative AI is a capability of software, but it has profoundly changed how computing is done. Computing used to be retrieval based. Now it's generative. Keep that thought in mind when I talk about certain things, and you'll realize why it is that everything that we do is going to change how computers are architected, how computers are provided, how computers are going to be built out and what is the meaning of computing altogether. Generative AI, 2023, end of '22, 2023. The next reasoning AI, 1. which -- and then took off with 3. Reasoning allowed it to reflect, allows it to think to itself, allowed it to plan, break down problems and decompose a problem it couldn't understand into steps or parts that it could understand. It could ground itself on research. 1 made generative AI trustworthy and grounded on truth. That caused ChatGPT to simply took off. And that was a very, very big moment. The amount of input tokens that was necessary in order to produce and the amount of output tokens it generated in order to reason, the model was a little bit larger. Of course, you could have much larger models. 1 was a little bit larger, not much larger, but it's input token usage for context and it's output token for thinking increased the amount of computation tremendously. Then came Cloud Code, the first agentic model. It was able to read files, code, compile it, test it, evaluate it, go back and iterate on it. Cloud Code has revolutionized software engineering, as all of you know. 100% of NVIDIA is using a combination of -- oftentimes all 3 of them, CloudCode, Codec and Cursor all over NVIDIA. There's not one software engineer today who is not assisted by one or many AI agents helping them code. Cloud Code completely revolutionized. It is the new inflection. And for the first time, you don't ask AI, what, where, when, how, you ask it create, do, build, you ask it to use tools, take your context, read files, it's able to agentically break down a problem, reason about it, reflect on it. It's able to solve problems and actually perform tasks. An AI that was able to perceive became an AI that could generate an AI that could generate became an AI that could reason, an AI that could reason now became an AI that can actually do work, very productive work. The amount of computation in the last 2 years, we know that everybody in this room knows the computing demand for NVIDIA GPU is off the charts. Spot pricing is skyrocketing. You couldn't find a GPU if you tried and yet in the meantime, we're shipping GPUs out, incredible amounts of it and demand just keeps on going up. There's a reason for that. This fundamental inflection. Finally, AI is able to do productive work, and therefore, the inflection point of inference has arrived. AI now has to think. In order to think, it has to inference. AI now has to do. In order to do, it has to inference. AI has to read in order to do so, it has to inference. It has to reason. It has to inference every part of AI. Every time it has to think, it has to reason, it has to do. It has to generate tokens. It has to inference. It's way past training now. It's in the field of inference. So the inference inflection has arrived. At the time when the amount of tokens, the amount of compute necessary increased by roughly 10,000 times. Now when I combine these 2, the fact that since the last 2 years, the computing demand of the work has gone up by 10,000 times. And the amount of usage has probably gone up by 100x. People have heard me say, I believe that computing demand has increased by 1 million times in the last 2 years. It is the feeling that we all have. It is the feeling every startup has. It's the feeling that OpenAI has, it's the feeling that Anthropic has. If they could just get more capacity, they could generate more tokens, their revenues would go up. More people could use it, the more advanced, the smarter the AI could become. We are now at that positive flywheel system. We have reached that moment. The inflection -- the inference inflection has arrived. Last year, at this time, I said that where I stood at that moment in time, we saw about $500 billion. We saw $500 billion of very high confidence demand and purchase orders for Blackwell and Rubin through 2026. I said that last year. Now I don't know if you guys feel the same way, but $500 billion is an enormous amount of revenue. not one impressed. I know why you're not impressed because all of you had record years. Well, I'm here to tell you that right now, where I stand, a few short months after GTC DC, 1 year after last GTC, right here where I stand, I see through 2027, at least $1 trillion. Now does it make any sense? And that's what I'm going to spend the rest of the time talking about. In fact, we are going to be short. I am certain computing demand will be much higher than that. And there's a reason for that. So the first thing is we did a lot of work in the last year. Of course, as you know, 2025 was NVIDIA's year of inference. We wanted to make sure that not only were we good at training and post training, that we were incredibly good at every single phase of AI so that the investments that were made, investments made in our infrastructure could scale out for as long as they would like to use it and the useful life of NVIDIA's infrastructure would be long, and therefore, the cost will be incredibly low. The longer you could use it, the lower the cost. There's no question in my mind, NVIDIA systems are the lowest cost infrastructure you could get for AI infrastructure in the world. And so the first part was -- last year was all about AI for inference, and it drove this inflection point. Simultaneously, we were very pleased last year that Anthropic has come to NVIDIA, that MSL, MetaSL has chosen NVIDIA. And meanwhile, as a collection, as a group, this represents 1/3 of the world's AI compute, open source models. Open source models have reached near the frontier, and it is literally everywhere. And NVIDIA, as you know, today, we're the only platform in the world today that runs every single domain of AI across every single one of these AI models. In language and biology, in computer graphics, computer vision, in speech, proteins and chemicals, robotics and otherwise, edge or cloud, any language. NVIDIA's architecture is fungible for all of that, and we're incredible for all of that. That allows us to be the lowest cost, the highest confidence platform because when you're building these systems, as I mentioned, $1 trillion is an enormous amount of infrastructure. You have to have complete confidence that the $1 trillion you're putting down will be utilized, would be performant, would be incredibly cost effective and have useful life for as long as you could see. That infrastructure investment you could make on NVIDIA, you could make with complete confidence. We have now proven that. It is the only infrastructure in the world that you could go anywhere in the world and build with complete confidence. You want to put it in any of the clouds. We're delighted by that. You want to put it on-prem. We're happy about that. You want to put it in any country anywhere, we're delighted to support you. We are now a computing platform that runs all of AI. Now our business already starting to show that. 60% of our business is hyperscalers, the top 5 hyperscalers. However, even within that top 5 hyperscalers, some of it is internal AI consumption. The internal AI consumption, really important work, like Rexus is moving from recommender systems of tables and collaborative filtering and content filtering. It's moving towards deep learning and large language models. Search, moving to deep learning, large language models. Almost all of these different hyperscale workloads are now moving, shifting towards a workload that NVIDIA GPUs are incredibly good at. But on top of that, because we work with every AI lab, because we work with every -- we accelerate every AI model and because we have a large ecosystem of AI natives that we work with that we can bring to the clouds. That investment, no matter how large, no matter how quick, that compute will be consumed. And that represents 60% of our business. The other 40% is just everywhere. regional clouds, sovereign clouds, enterprise, industrial, robotics, edge, big systems, supercomputing systems, small servers, enterprise servers, the number of systems, incredible. The diversity of AI is also its resilience. The span of reach of AI is its resilience. There is no question this is not a one-app technology. This is now fundamental. This is absolutely a new computing platform shift. Well, our job is to continue to advance the technology. And one of the most important things that I mentioned last year was last year was our year of inference. We dedicated everything. We took a giant chance and reinvented while Hopper was at its prime and it was just cooking, we decided that the Hopper architecture, the NVLink x8 had to be taken to the next level. We completely re-architected the system, disaggregated the computing system altogether and created NVLink 72. The way that it's built, the way it's manufactured, the way it's programmed completely changed. Grace Blackwell, NVLink 72 was a giant bet. And it wasn't easy for anybody. And many of my partners here in the room, I want to thank all of you for the hard work that you guys did. Thank you. NVLink 72, NVFP4, not just FP4 precision, FP4 is a whole different type of Tensor Core and computational unit. We've demonstrated now that we can inference NVFP4 without loss of precision, but gigantic boost in performance and energy efficiency. We've also been able to use NVFP4 for training. So NVLink 72, MVFP4, the invention of Dynamo, TensorRT-LLM, a whole bunch of new algorithms. We even built a supercomputer to help us optimize kernels and help us optimize our complete stack, we call it DGX Cloud. We invested billions of dollars of supercomputing capability to help us create the kernels, the software that made inference possible. Well, the results all came together and people used to tell me, but Jensen, inference is so easy. Inference is the ultimate hard. Inference is ultimate hard. It is also ultimate important because it drives your revenues. And so this is the outcome. This is from semi analysis, this is the largest, most comprehensive suite of AI inference that has ever been done. And what you see here on the left on this side is tokens per watt. Tokens per watt is important because every data center, every single factory, by definition, is power constrained. A 1 gigawatt factory will never become 2. It's physically constrained, the laws of atoms, the laws of physicality. And so that 1 gigawatt of data center, you want to drive the maximum number of tokens, which is the production, the product of that factory. So you want that -- you want to be on top of that curve as high as you want. This -- the X-axis is the interactivity, the speed of inference, the speed of each inference. The faster you can inference, -- the faster you could, of course, respond. But very importantly, the faster you can inference, the larger the models, the more context you could process, the more tokens you can think through, this axis is the same as smartness of the AI. And so this is the throughput of the AI. This is the smartness of the AI. Notice the smarter the AI, the lower your throughput makes sense. You're thinking longer, okay? And so this axis is the speed, and I'm going to come back to this. This is important. This is where I torture all of you, but it's too important. Every CEO in the world, you watch, every CEO in the world will study their business from now on in the way I'm about to describe because this is your token factory. This is your AI factory. This is your revenues. There's no question about that going forward. And so this is the throughput. This is the intelligence. Better per watt for a given power of data center, the more throughput, the more tokens you could produce. On this side is cost. Notice, NVIDIA is the highest performance in the world. Nobody would be surprised by that. They would be surprised by the fact that in one generation, whereas Moore's Law would have given us through transistors, 50%, 2x, Moore's Law would probably give us 1.5x more performance. You would have expected from Hopper H200, 1.5x higher. Nobody would have expected 35x higher. I said last year, at this time that NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell, NVLink 72 was 35x per watt. Nobody believed me. And then semi-analysis came out and Dylan Patel had a quote, he accused me of sandbagging. He accused me of sandbagging. He says Jensen sandbagged. It's actually 50x, and he's not wrong. He's not wrong. And so our cost per token -- our cost per token is the lowest in the world. You can't beat it. I've said before, if you have the wrong architecture, even if it's free, it's not cheap enough. And the reason for that is because no matter what happens, you still have to build a gigawatt data center. You still have to build a gigawatt factory. And that gigawatt factory for 15 years amortized across that gigawatt factory is about $40 billion. Even when you put nothing on, it's $40 billion in. You better make for darn sure, you put the best computer system on that thing so that you could have the best token cost. NVIDIA's token cost is world-class, basically untouchable at the moment. And the reason that's true is because of extreme co-design. And so I'm very happy that he named us -- there was a monkey king token King. Well, we take all of our software. As I told you, we vertically integrate, but we horizontally open. We're vertical integration, horizontal open. We integrate all of our software and all of our technology, however we could package it up and integrate it into the world's inference service providers. And these companies are growing so fast. They're growing so fast. Fireworks, Lynn is here together, they're just growing so incredibly fast. 100 times in the last year. They are token factories. And the effectiveness, the performance and the token cost production capability for their factories is everything to them. And this is what happened. This is -- we updated their software, same system and notice their token speeds, incredible. The difference before NVIDIA updated everything and all of our algorithms and software and all the technology that we bring to bear, about 700 tokens per second average went to nearly 5,000, 7x higher. And so this is the incredible power of Extreme co-design. I mentioned earlier the importance of factories. This is the importance of factory. Your data center, it used to be a data center for files. It's now a factory to generate tokens. Your factory is limited no matter what. Everybody is looking for land, power and shell. Once you build it, you are power limited. Within that power limited infrastructure, you better make for darn sure that your inference because you know inference is your workload and tokens is your new commodity, that compute is your revenues that you want to make sure that the architecture is as optimized as you can. In the future, every single CSP, every single computer company, every single cloud company, every single AI company, every single company period are going to be thinking about their token factory effectiveness. This is your factory in the future. And the reason why I know that is because everybody in this room is powered by intelligence. And in the future, that intelligence will be augmented by tokens. So let me show you how we got here. [Presentation]

Jen-Hsun Huang

Executives
#6

Well, in the old days, when I would say hopper, I would hold up a chip. That's -- this is Vera Rubin. When we think Vera Rubin, we think the entire system, vertically integrated completely with software, extended end-to-end, optimized as one giant system. The reason why it's designed for agentic systems is very clear because agents, of course, the most important workload is it's thinking the large language model. The large language models are going to get larger and larger and larger. It's going to generate more and more tokens more quickly, so it could think more quickly, but it also has to access memory. It's going to pound on memory really hard. KVCache, structured data, QDF, unstructured data, QVS. It's going to be pounding on the storage system really, really hard, which is the reason why we reinvented the storage system. It is also going to use tools. And unlike humans that are more tolerant to slower computers, AI wants the tools to be as fast as possible. These tools, web browsers in the future, they could also be virtual PCs in the cloud. Those PCs have to be -- and those computers have to be as fast as possible. We created a brand-new CPU, a brand-new CPU that's designed for extremely high single-threaded performance, incredibly high data output, incredibly good at data processing and extreme energy efficiency. It is the only data center CPU in the world that uses LPDDR5 and incredible single-thread performance and performance per watt that is unrivaled. And so that's -- we built that so that it could go along with the rest of these racks for agentic processing. And so here it is. This is the Grace Black -- no, Vera Rubin, where is it? Here it is, okay? So this is the VerRubin system. Notice since the last time, 100% liquid cooled. All of the cables gone. What used to take 2 days to install now takes 2 hours. incredible. And so the manufacturing cycle time is going to dramatically reduce. This is also a supercomputer that is cooled by -- it's cooled by hot water, 45 degrees, which takes the pressure off of the data center, takes all of that cost and all of that energy that's used to cool the data center and makes it available for the system. This is the secret sauce. It is the only -- we're the only company in the world that has today built the sixth generation scale-up switching system. This is not Ethernet. This is not InfiniBand. This is NVLink. This is the sixth generation NVLink. This is insanely hard to do well. It is insanely hard to do, period. And I'm just super proud of the team, NVLink, completely liquid cooled. This is the brand-new GRC system, and I'll show you a little bit more about it. This system, 8 GuOck chips, -- this is the LP30. The world has never seen it. Anything that the world has ever seen is V1. This is third generation, and we're in volume production now. And I'll show you more about that in just a second. The world's first CPO Spectrum-X switch. This is also in full production, co-packaged optics. Optics comes directly onto this chip, interfaces directly to silicon. -- electrons gets translated to photons and it gets directly connected to this chip. We invented the process technology with TSMC. We're the only one in production with it today. It's called COOP. It's completely revolutionary. NVIDIA is in full production with Spectrum-X. This is the Vera system, twice the performance per watt of any CPUs in the world today. It is also in production. Well, we never thought we would be selling CPU stand-alone. We are selling a lot of CPU stand-alone. This is already, for sure, going to be a multibillion-dollar business for us. So I'm very, very pleased with our CPU architects. We've designed a revolutionary CPU. And this is the CX9 powered with Vera CPU, the BlueField-4 STX, our new storage platform, okay? So these are the -- these are the racks and it's connected each one of these racks, the NVLink rack, this is I've shown you guys this before. It's super heavy. It seems to get heavier every year because I think there's just more cables in there every year. And so this is the NVLink rack. We've also taken this technology because it is so efficient to create a data center with these cabling systems, structured cables. So we decided to do that for Ethernet. So this is Ethernet 256 liquid-cooled nodes in one rack, and it is also connected with these incredible connectors. You guys want to see Rubin Ultra. So this is the Rubin Ultra compute node. Unlike Rubin that slides in horizontally, Rubin Ultra goes into a whole new rack, it's called Kiber that enables us to connect 144 GPUs in NVLink domain. And so the KaiberRack, this -- I could lift it, I'm sure, but I won't. It's quite heavy. This is one compute node, and it slides into the Kiber rack vertically. This is where it connects into. This is the mid-plane. The Kiber racks, those 4 top NVLink connectors slide in and connect into this, and this becomes one of the nodes. And each one of these racks is a different compute node, and this is the amazing part. This is the midplane -- and the back of the midplane, instead of the cabling system, which has its limits in terms of how far we could drive cables, copper cables, we now have this system to connect 144 GPUs. This is the new NVLink. This sits also vertically and it connects into the midplanes on the back. compute in the front, NVLink switches in the back, one giant computer, okay? So that is Rubin Ultra. As I mentioned, how about we take this back down? I need the rest of my slides. it's coming down. Okay. Thank you, Den. This is what happens when you don't practice. Okay. All right. So you saw -- take your time, don't get hurt. You saw this slide. Only NVIDIA's keynote where you see last year's slide presented again. And the reason for that is I just want to let you know that last year, I told you something very, very important. And it's so important, it's worthwhile to tell you again. This is probably the single most important chart for the future of AI factories. And every CEO in the world will be tracking it. We'll be studying it very deeply. It's much, much more complicated than this. It's multidimensional, but you will be studying the throughput and the token speed of your AI factories, the throughput, token speed at ISO power because that's all the power you have, throughput and token speed for your factories forever. And that analysis is going to lead directly to your revenues. What you do this year will show up precisely next year as your revenues. And this chart is what it's all about. And I said on the vertical axis, on the vertical axis, thank you, guys. On the vertical axis is throughput. On the horizontal axis is token rate. Today, I'm going to show you this. Because we're -- because we're now able to increase the token speed and because model sizes are increasing because the token length, the context length depending on the different grades of different application use case continues to grow from maybe 100,000 tokens input length to maybe millions. The token input length is growing and also the output token length is growing. And so all of these play into ultimately the marketing and the pricing of future tokens. Tokens are the new commodity. And like all commodities, once it reaches an inflection, once it becomes mature or becomes maturing, it will segment into different parts. The high throughput, low speed could be used for the free tier. The next tier could be the medium tier, larger model maybe, higher speed for sure, larger input context length. That translates to a different price point. You could see from all the different services, this one is free. It's a free tier. The first tier could be $3 per million tokens. The next tier could be $6 per million tokens. You would like to be able to keep pushing this boundary because the larger the model, smarter, the more input token context length, more relevant, the higher the speed, -- the long -- the more you can think and iterate smarter AI models. So this is about smarter AI models. And when you have smarter AI models, each one of these clicks allows you to increase the price. So this is $45. And maybe one day, there'll be a premium model that allows you a premium service that allows you to generate token speeds that are incredibly high because you're in a critical path or maybe you're doing really long research and $150 per million tokens is just not a thing. So let's translate that. Suppose you were to use 50 million tokens per day as a researcher at $150 per million tokens. As it turns out, as a research team, that's not even a thing. So we believe that this is the future. This is where AI wants to go. This is where it is today. It had to start here to establish the value and establish its usefulness and get better and better and better. In the future, you're going to see most services encompass all of that. This is Hopper. Hopper started, and I moved the chart, this is 50, this is 100. Hopper looks like this. And you would have expected Hopper, the next generation to be higher, but nobody would have expected it to be that much higher. This is Grace Blackwell. What Grace Blackwell did is at your free tier, increase your throughput tremendously. However, where you mostly monetize your service it increased your throughput by 35x. This is no different than any product that every company makes. The higher the tier, the higher the quality, the higher the performance, the lower the volume, the lower the capacity. And so it is no different than any other business in the world. And so now we're able to increase this tier by 35x, and we introduced a whole new tier. This is the benefit of Grace Blackwell, a huge jump over hopper. Well, this is what we're doing with -- okay. So this is Grace Blackwell, okay? Let me just reset this, and this is Vera Rubin. -- okay? Now just think what just happened. At every single tier, at every single tier, at every single tier, we increased the throughput. And at the tier that where your highest ASP and your most valuable segment, we increased it by 10x. That is the hard work. This is incredibly hard to do out here. This is the benefit of EddLink 72. This is the benefit of extremely low latency. This is the benefit of extreme codesign that we could shift the entire area up. Now what does it mean from a customer perspective in the end? Suppose I were to take all of that and I just multiply it against -- suppose I took 25% of my power, used it in a free tier, 25% of my power in the medium tier, 25% of my power in the high tier and 25% of my power in the premium tier. My data center only has a gigawatt. And so I get to decide how I want to distribute. The free tier allows me to attract more customers. This allows me to serve my most valuable customers. And the combination, the product of all that allows you basically your revenues. The revenues you can generate, assuming this simplistic example, allows Blackwell to generate 5x more revenues, Vera Rubin to generate 5x. So Vera Rubin, you should get there as soon as you can. And the reason for that is because your cost of tokens goes down and your throughput goes up. But we want even more. We want even more. And so let me just show you back to this. This is -- as I told you, this throughput requires a ton of flops. This latency, this interactivity requires enormous amount of bandwidth. Computers don't like extreme amount of flops, extreme amount of bandwidth because there's only so much surface area for chips that any systems has. And so optimizing for high throughput and optimizing for low latency are, in fact, enemies of each other. And so this is what happened when we combined with Grock, okay? And so we acquired the team that worked on the Grock chips and licensed the technology, and we've been working together now to integrate the system. This is what that looks like. So at the most valuable tier -- at the most valuable tier, we're now going to increase performance by 35x. Now this very simple chart revealed to you exactly the reason why NVIDIA is so strong in the vast majority of the workloads so far. And the reason for that is because up in this area, throughput matters so much. NVLink 72 is so game changing. It is exactly the right architecture, and it's even hard to beat even as you add Grock to it. However, if you extended this chart way out here and you said you wanted to have services that delivers not 400 tokens per second, but 1,000 tokens per second, all of a sudden, NVLink 72 runs out of steam and it simply can't get there. We just don't have enough bandwidth. And so this is where Grock comes in, and this is what happens when we push that out. So it goes out beyond -- thank you goes out beyond even the limits of what NVLink 72 can do. And if you were to do that, translate that into revenues relative to Blackwell, Vera Rubin is 5x. If most of your workload is high throughput, I would stick with just 100% Vera Rubin. If a lot of your workload wants to be coding and very high-value engineering token generation, I would add GRC to it. I would add GRC to maybe 25% of my total data center. The rest of my data center is all 100% Vera Rubin. And so that gives you a sense of how you would add Grock to VerRubin and extend its performance and extend its value even more. This is what happens. this is a contrast. The reason why Grok was so attractive to me is because their computing system, a deterministic data flow processor, it is statically compiled. It is compiler scheduled, meaning the compiler figures out when do the compute -- the compute and the data arrives at the same time. All of that is done statically in advance and scheduled completely in software. There's no dynamic scheduling. The architecture is designed with massive amounts of SRAM, -- it is designed just for inference, this one workload. Now this one workload, as it turns out, is the workload of AI factories. And as the world continues to increase the amount of high-speed tokens it wants to generate with super smart tokens it wants to generate, the value of this integration is going to get even higher. And so these are 2 extreme processors you could see. One chip, 500 megabytes, Verubenip, Rubin chip, 288 gigabytes -- it would take a lot of Grock chips to be able to hold the parameter size of Rubin as well as all of the context that has to go -- the KV cache that has to go along with it. So that limited Grock's ability to really reach the mainstream to really take off until we had a great idea. What have we disaggregated inference altogether with a piece of software called Dynamo? What have we rearchitected the way that inference is done in the pipeline so that we could put the work that makes perfect sense on Verorubin and then offload the decode generation, the low latency, the bandwidth limited challenged part of the workload for Grok. And so we united, unified processors of extreme differences, one for high throughput, one for low latency. It still doesn't change the fact that we need a lot of memory. And so GRC, we're just going to add a whole bunch of Grock chips, which expands the amount of memory it has. And so if you could just imagine, out of 1 trillion parameter model, we have to store all of that in Grock chips. However, it sits next to NVIDIA Vera Rubin, where we could hold the massive amounts of KV cache that's necessary in processing all of these aggentic AI systems. It's based upon this idea of disaggregated inference. We do the prefill, that's the easy part, but we also tightly integrate the decode. So the attention part of decode is done on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin, which needs a lot of math and the feed forward network part of it, the decode part is done -- the token generation part is done on Vera Rubin on the Grock chip. The 2 of them working tightly coupled together over today, Ethernet with a special mode to reduce its latency by about half. And so that capability allows us to integrate these 2 systems. We run Dynamo, this incredible operating system for AI factories on top of it, and you get increase, 35x increase, not to mention additional new tiers of inference performance for token generation the world has never seen. So this is it. This is G. The Vera Rubin systems, including Grock, I want to thank Samsung, who manufactures the GrockLP30 chip for us, and they're cranking as hard as they can. I really appreciate you guys. We're in production with the Grock chip, and we'll ship it in the second half, probably about Q3 time frame, okay? Grok LPX. Vera Rubin, it's kind of hard to imagine any more customers. And the really great thing is Grace Blackwell, early sampling of it was really complicated because of coming together of NVLink 72, but the sampling of Vera Rubin is just going incredibly well. And in fact, Satya, I think, texted out already that the first Vera Rubin rack is already up and running at Microsoft Azure. And so I'm super excited for them. We're going to keep cranking these things out. We have now set up a supply chain that can manufacture thousands a week of these systems, essentially multi-gigawatts of AI factories per month inside our supply chain. And so we're going to crank out these Vera Rubin racks while we're cranking out the GB 300 racks. We are in full production. The Vera CPUs incredibly successful. And the reason for that is because AI needs CPUs for tool use. and Veris CPU was designed just perfectly for that sweet spot, incredible for the next generation of data processing. Veris CPU is ideal. The Veris CPUlueusCX9 connected into the BlueField 4 stack, 100% of the world's storage industry is joining us on this system. And the reason for that is because they see exactly the same thing. the storage system is going to get pounded. It's going to get pounded because we used to have humans using the storage systems. We used to have humans using SQL. Now we're going to have AIs using these storage systems, and it's going to store QDF accelerated storage, QVS accelerated storage as well as very importantly, KV caching, okay? So this is the Vera Rubin system. Now what's amazing is this, in just 2 years' time, in a 1 gigawatt factory, in just 2 years' time, in 1 gigawatt factory, using the mathematics that I showed you earlier, whereas Moore's Law would have given us a couple of steps, we would have factored the number of transistors. We would have factored the number of flops. We would have factored the number of amount of bandwidth. But with this architecture, we're going to take our token generation speed, token generation rate from 2 million to $700 million, 350x increase. This is the power of extreme co-design. This is what I mean when we integrate and optimize vertically, but then we open it horizontally for everybody to enjoy. This is our road map very quickly. Blackwell is here, the Oberon system. In the case of Rubin, we have the Oberon system. We're always backwards compatible so that if you wanted to not change anything and just keep on moving through with the new architecture, you could do so. The old system -- the standard rack system, Oberon, still available. Oberon is copper scale up. And with Oberon, we could also use optical scale-out -- or excuse me, optical scale up to expand to NVLink 576, okay? And so there's a lot of conversation about is NVIDIA going to copper scale up or optical scale up? We're going to do both. So we're going to have NVLink 144 with Kiber and then with O. Oberon, we're going to NVLink 72 plus optical to get to NVLink 576. The next generation of Rubin with Rubin Ultra, we have the Rubin Ultra chip, which is coming -- which is taping out. And we have a brand-new chip, LP35. LP35 will, for the first time, incorporate NVIDIA's NVFP4 computing structure, give you another few X factor speed up, okay? And so this is Oberon NVLink 72 optical scale up, and it uses Spectrum 6, the world's first co-packaged optical and all of this is in production. The next generation from here is Fion. Fion has a new GPU, of course. It also has a new LPU, LP40, big step up, incredible, incredible new technology. Now uniting the scale of NVIDIA and the Grok team building together LP40,'s going to be incredible. A brand-new CPU called ROSA, short for Rosling, BlueField 5, which connects the next CPU with the next SuperNIC CX10. We will have Kiber which is copper scale up, we will also have fiber CPO scale up. So for the first time, we will scale up with both copper and co-packaged optics, okay? And so a lot of people have been asking, Jensen, is copper going to still be important? The answer is yes. Jensen, are you going to scale up optical? Yes. Are you going to scale out optical? Yes. And so for everybody who is in our ecosystem, we need a lot more capacity, and that's really the key. We need a lot more capacity for copper. We need a lot more capacity for optics. We need a lot more capacity for CPO. And that's the reason why we've been working with all of you to lay the foundation for this level of growth. And so Simon will have all of that. Let me see if I missed everything. That's it. Every single year, brand-new architecture. Very quickly, NVIDIA went from a chip company to an AI factory company or AI infrastructure company, AI computing company, these systems. And now we're building entire AI factories. There's so much power that is squandered in these AI factories. We want to make sure that these AI factories come together, designed in the best possible way. Most of these components never meet each other. Most of us technology vendors. Now we all know each other. But in the past, we never met each other until the data center. That can't happen. We're building super complex systems. And so we have to meet each other virtually somewhere else. And so we created Omniverse and the Omniverse DSX world, a platform where all of us can meet and design these gigafactories, gigawatt AI factories virtually in system. We have simulation systems for the racks for mechanical, thermal, electrical, networking, those simulation systems integrated into all of our ecosystem partners of incredible tools companies. We also operate it, connect it to the grid so that we could interact with each other, send each other information so that we could adjust grid power and data center power accordingly, saving energy. And then inside the data center using MaxQ so that we could adjust the system dynamically across power and cooling and all of the different technologies we all work on together so that we leave no power squandered so that we run at the most optimal rate to deliver enormous amount of token throughput. There's no question in my mind, there's a factor of 2 in here. And the factor of 2 at the scale we're talking about is gigantic. We call this the NVIDIA DXX platform. And just as all of our platforms, there's the hardware layer, there's the library layer and there's the ecosystem layer. It's exactly the same way. Let's show it to you. [Presentation]

Jen-Hsun Huang

Executives
#7

It's incredible, right? Well, Omniverse was designed to hold the world's digital twin, starting from the earth, and it's going to hold digital twins of all sizes. And so we have such a great ecosystem of partners. I want to thank all of you. All of these companies are brand new to our world. We didn't know many of you just a couple of years ago. And now we're working so close together to work on and build together the largest computer the world's ever seen and also to do it at planetary scale. So NVIDIA DSX is our new AI factory platform. I'll spend very little time on this time. However, we're going to space. We've already been out in space. Thor is radiation approved, and we're in satellites. You do imaging from satellites in the future. We'll also build data centers in space. Obviously, very complicated to do so. We have -- we're working with our partners on a new computer called Verubin SpaceON, and it's going to go out to space and start data centers out in space. Now of course, in space, there's no conduction, there's no convection. There's just radiation. And so we have to figure out how to cool these systems out in space, but we've got lots of great engineers working on it. Let me talk to you about something new. So Peter Steinberger is here, and he wrote a piece of software. It's called OpenClaw. And I don't know if he realized how successful it's going to be, but the importance is profound. OpenClaw is the #1. It's the most popular open source project in the history of humanity, and it did so in just a few weeks. It exceeded what Linux did in 30 years, and it's that important. It is that important. It will do well, this is all you do, okay? We're announcing our support of it. Let me just quickly go through this. I want to show you a couple of things. You simply type this type this into a console and it goes out, it finds open claw, it downloads it. It builds you an AI agent, and then you could tell it whatever else you need to do, okay? So let's take a look. [Presentation]

Jen-Hsun Huang

Executives
#8

Incredible. Now I illustrated effectively what Open claw is in this way so that all of you can understand it, but let's just think what happened. What is open? It connects -- it's agentic system. It calls and connects to large language models. So the first thing it has, it has resources that it manages. It could access tools, it could access file systems, it could access large language models. It's able to do scheduling. It's able to do cron jobs. It's able to decompose a problem that a prompt that you gave it into step by step by step. It could spun off and call upon other subagents. It has I/O. You could talk to it in any modality you want. You could wave at it and understand you. You could talk to any modality you want. It sends you messages, it text you, send you e-mail. So it's got I/O. What else does it have? Well, based on that, you could say, in fact, it's an operating system. I've just used the same syntax that I would describe an operating system. Open Claw has open sourced essentially the operating system of Agenta computers. It is no different than how Windows made it possible for us to create personal computers. Now open claw has made it possible for us to create personal agents. The implication is incredible. The implication is incredible. First of all, the adoption says something all in itself. However, the most important thing is this, every single company now realize every single company, every single software company, every single technology company for the CEOs, the question is, what's your open claw strategy? Just as we need to all have a Linux strategy. We all needed to have HTTP, HTML strategy, which started the Internet. We all needed to have a Kubernetes strategy, which made it possible for mobile cloud to happen. Every company in the world today needs to have an open claw strategy and a gentx system strategy. This is the new computer. Now this is just the exciting part. This is enterprise IT before open claw. And I mentioned earlier, the way enterprise IT works and the reason why it's called data centers is because these large rooms, these large buildings held data, held the files of people, the structured data of business. It would pass through software that has tools and systems of records and all kinds of workflow that's codified into it, and that turns into tools that humans would use. Digital workers with use. That is the old IT industry, software companies creating tools, saving files and of course, GSIs consultants that help companies figure out how to use these tools and integrate these tools. These tools are incredibly valuable for governance and security and privacy and compliance and all of that continues to be true. It's just that post-open clock, post agentic, this is what it's going to look like. This is the extraordinary part. Every single IT company, every single company, every company, every SaaS company will become a gas company. No question about it. Every single SaaS company will becoming a gas company and Agentic as a service company. And what's amazing is this, you now open cloud gave us -- gave the industry exactly what it needed at exactly the time. Just as Linux gave the industry exactly what it needed exactly the time, just as Kubernetes showed up at exactly the right time, just as HTML showed up. It made it possible for the entire industry to grab on to this open source stack and go do something with it. There's just one catch. Agentic systems in the corporate network can have access to sensitive information, it can execute code and it can communicate externally. Just say that out loud, okay? Think about it. Access sensitive information, execute code, communicate externally. You could, of course, access employee information, access supply access finance information information and send it out, communicate externally. Obviously, this can't possibly be allowed. And so what we did was we worked with Peter. We took some of the world's best security and computing experts, and we worked with Peter to make open claw, enterprise secure and enterprise private capable. And we call that -- this is our NVIDIA Open Claw reference for open -- NeMoClaw, which is a reference for open claw, and it has all these agentic AI toolkits. And the first part of it is technology we call Open Shell that has now been integrated into OpenClaw. Now it's enterprise ready. This stack with a reference design we call NC NeemoClaw, okay? With a reference stack we call NeemoClaw, you could download it, play with it and you could connect to it the policy engine of all of the SaaS companies in the world. And your policy engines are super important, super valuable. So the policy engines could be connected, NeemoClaw or OpenClaw with OpenShell would be able to execute that policy engine. It has a network guardrail. It has a privacy router. And as a result, we could protect and keep the the clause from executing inside our company and do it safely. We also added several things to the Agentx system. And one of the most important things you want to do with your own custom clause is so that you can have your custom models. And this is NVIDIA's open model initiative. We are now at the frontier of every single domain of AI models, whether it's Nemotron, Cosmos's World Foundation model, got artificial general robotics, human robotics models, Alpamayo for autonomous vehicle, BioNeMo for digital biology, H2 for AI physics, we are at the frontier on every single one. Take a look. [Presentation]

Jen-Hsun Huang

Executives
#9

Our models -- Thank you. Our models are valuable to all of you because number one, it's on the top of the leaderboard. It's world-class. But most importantly, it's because we are not going to give up working on it. We're going to keep on working on it every single day. Nemotron 3 is going to be followed by Nemotron 4. Cosmos 1 was followed by Cosmos 2. Got at Generation 2. Each and one of these, we're going to continue to advance these models, vertical integration, horizontal openness so that we can enable everybody to join the AI revolution, #1 on leaderboard across research and voice and world models and artificial general robotics and self-driving cars and reasoning. And of course, one of the most important one, this is Nemotron 3 in OpenClaw. This is Nemotron 3 and OpenCaw and look at the top 3, they are the 3 best models in the world, okay? So we are at the frontier. It is also true that we want to create the foundation model so that all of you could fine-tune it and post-train it into exactly the intelligence you need. This is Nemotron 3 Ultra. It is going to be the best base model the world has ever created. This allows us to help every country build their sovereign AI, and we're working with so many different companies out there. And one of the most exciting things that we're doing today, I'm announcing today, is a Nemotron coalition. We are so dedicated to this. We have invested billions of dollars of AI infrastructure so that we could develop the core engines for AI that's necessary for all the libraries of inference and so on, but also to create the AI models to activate every single industry in the world. Large language models is really important. Of course, it's important. How could human intelligence not be? However, in different industries around the world, in different countries around the world, you need to have the ability to customize your own models and the domain of the models is radically different from biology to physics, to self-driving cars, to general robotics to, of course, human language. And we have the ability to work with every single region to create their domain-specific, their sovereign AI. Today, we're announcing a coalition to partner with us to make NMotron 4 even more amazing. And that coalition has some amazing companies in it. Black Forest Labs, imaging company, Cursor, the famous coding company, we use lots of it, LangCain, billion downloads for creating custom agents, Mistraw, Arthur mentioned, I think he's here, incredible, incredible company. Perplexity, Perplexity computer, absolutely use it. Everybody use it. It is so good, a multimodal agentic system, reflection Sarvum from India, thinking machine, Miramirati's lab, incredible companies joining us. Thank you. I said that every single enterprise company, every single software company in the world needs an agentic systems, need an agent strategy. You need to have an open class strategy, and they all agree. And they're all partnering with us to integrate NeMo, the NeMoCla reference design, the NVIDIA Agentic AI toolkit and of course, all of our open models. One company after another, there are so many, and we're partnering with all of you. I'm really grateful for that. And this is our moment. This is a reinvention. This is a renaissance, a renaissance of the enterprise IT from what would be a $2 trillion industry, this is going to become a multitrillion dollar industry, offering not just tools for people to use, but agents that are specialized in very special domains that you're expert in that we could rent. I could totally imagine in the future, every single engineer in our company will need an annual token budget. They're going to make a few hundred thousand dollars a year of their base pay. I'm going to give them probably half of that on top of it as tokens so that they could be amplify 10x. Of course, we would. It is now one of the recruiting tools in Silicon Valley. How many tokens comes along with my job. And the reason for that is very clear because every engineer that has access to tokens will be more productive. And those tokens, as you know, will be produced by AI factories that all of you and us, we partner to build, okay? So every single enterprise company in today sit on top of file systems and data centers. Every single software company of the future will be agentic and they will be token manufacturers. There'll be token users for their engineers, and there'll be token manufacturers for all of their customers. The open event, the open claw event cannot be understated. This is as big of a deal as HTML. This is as big of a deal as Linux. We have now a world-class open agentic framework that all of us could use to build our open claw strategy. And we've created a reference design we call NeemoClaw that all of you could use that is optimized, it's performant, it is safe and secure. Speaking of agents, agents, as you know, perceive, reason and act. Most of the agents in the world today that I've spoken about are digital agents. They act in the digital world. They reason, they write software. It's all digital. But we also have been working on physically embodied agents for a long time. We call them robots. And the AIs that they need are physical AIs. We have some big announcements here. I'm going to just walk through a few of them, 110 robots here, almost every single company in the world, I can't think of one that are building robots is working with NVIDIA. We have 3 computers, the training computer, the synthetic data generation and simulation computer and of course, the robotics computer that sits inside the robot itself. We have all the software stacks necessary to do so, the AI models to help you. And all of this is integrated into ecosystems around the world and all of our partners from Siemens to Cadence, incredible partners everywhere. And today, we're announcing a whole bunch of new partners. As you know, we've been working on self-driving cars for a long time. The ChatGPT moment of self-driving cars has arrived. We now know we could successfully autonomously drive cars. And today, we are announcing 4 new partners for NVIDIA's robotaxi-ready platform. BYD, Hyundai, Nissan, Geely, altogether, 18 million cars built each year, joining our partners from before, Mercedes, Toyota, GM, the number of robotaxi-ready cars in the future are going to be incredible. And we're announcing also a big partnership with Uber. Multiple cities, we're going to be deploying and connecting these robotaxi-ready vehicles into their network. And so a whole bunch of new cars. We have ABB, Universal Robotics, KUKA, so many robotics companies here, and we're working with them to implement our physical AI models integrated into simulation systems so that we could deploy these robots into manufacturing lines all over. We have Caterpillar here. We even have T-Mobile here. And the reason for that is in the future, that radio tower used to be a radio tower is going to be an NVIDIA aerial AI RAN. And so this is going to be a robotics radio tower, meaning it can reason about the traffic, figure out how to adjust its beam forming so that they could save as much energy as possible and increase the amount of fidelity as possible. There are so many humanoid robots here, but one of my one of my favorites is a Disney robot. You know what? Tell you what, let me just show you some of the videos. Let's look at that first. 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Jen-Hsun Huang

Executives
#10

Omniverse works. Olaf. How are you? "I'm so happy that I'm leaving you" I know because I gave you your computer. "What's that?" Well, it's in your tummy. [indiscernible] And you learn how to walk inside Omniverse. [indiscernible] And it was because of physics using this Newton Solver that runs on top of NVIDIA Warp that we jointly developed with Disney and with Deep that made it possible for you to be able to adapt to the physical world. Check that out. That's how smart you are. "I'm a snowman, not a snow [indiscernible] " Could you imagine this, the future of Disneyland, all these robots, all these characters wondering around. I have to admit though, I thought you were going to be taller. I've never seen such a short snowman, to be honest. Hey, tell you what, you want to help me out? Okay. Usually, I close the keynote by telling you what I told you. We talked about inference inflection. We talked about the AI factory. We talked about the open claw agent revolution that's happening. And of course, we talked about physical AI and robotics. But tell you what, why don't we get some friends to help us close it out? [Presentation]

Jen-Hsun Huang

Executives
#11

Thank you everybody.

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