After a jam-packed CES 2025 session, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is kicking off the company's GTC 2025 AI conference with a two-hour-long keynote in just a few hours. Expect to hear more about the company's expansive AI plans, which will likely cover everything from robots to in-car technology. Basically, the keynote will likely be an expansion of themes Huang has already discussed at CES. But since GTC is NVIDIA's own conference, he'll be free to get even nerdier and more specific (something the CES audience didn't seem to appreciate). Also, the GTC schedule has March 20 carved out as "Quantum Day," with a two-hour panel hosted by Huang starting at 1pm ET, so we can probably expect some discussion around that later this week.
Given the rocky launch of NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs — from its pricey RTX 5090 to the more attainable RTX 5070 — NVIDIA also plans to unveil more details around its next-generation graphics architectures, Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin. Huang confirmed that Blackwell Ultra cards are coming in the "second half" of this year in a recent earnings call, and he added, "The next train [is] Blackwell Ultra with new networking, new memory, and of course, new processors." Additionally, he noted "The click after that is called Vera Rubin and all of our partners are getting up to speed on the transition to that." Those Vera Rubin GPUs will offer a "big, big, huge step up," Huang extolled to investors and analysts.
Considering NVIDIA stock recently took a dip ahead of GTC, the company has quite a lot riding on today's keynote. Redditors from the subreddit r/NVDA_Stock are saying the scene at GTC is, as of the afternoon of March 17, "an absolute madhouse." Stick around as we see what NVIDIA has up its sleeve.
Live2 updates
Tue, March 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM EDT
On our liveblog today will be senior reviewer and in-house GPU expert Devindra Hardawar, as well as our AI reporter Igor Bonifacic. It has only been about two months since NVIDIA's keynote at CES 2025, where Devindra joined a group of reporters to chat with Jensen Huang. Since then, the company has released its GeForce RTX 50-series of GPUs and Devindra has reviewed three of them. To be fair, "released" is a strong word in this case, since the number of units that actually seem to be available appears to be fairly limited, and retailers are regularly out of stock.
Tue, March 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM EDT
Hello and welcome to Engadget's liveblog of the NVIDIA GTC 2025 keynote. Thanks for joining us today, it's always great to virtually say hi to our readers. In just a few hours, we expect to hear from NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang, as he delivers his speech at what the company is billing as an AI conference for developers. That's starting at 1pm ET (10am PT), and might last for about two hours. Definitely worth scheduling a reminder to take a toilet break before things kick off.
The NVIDIA GTC AI conference takes place from March 17 to March 21. CEO Jensen Huang will be delivering a keynote address on March 18 at 1pm ET. Come to Engadget to follow our liveblog of the event and check outwhat we expect to see at NVIDIA's GTC 2025.
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