The headline announcement was a new PC developed in partnership with Microsoft, which Huang called "the biggest reinvention in 40 years.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stepped onto the stage in his trademark leather jacket to unveil the artificial intelligence company’s latest innovations at its annual GTC conference in Taiwan, often referred to as the “Super Bowl” of AI.
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From praising the place he was born and a new PC with Microsoft to touting AI agents. Here are the top five takeaways from the event in Taipei.
The AI PC
Huang kept the most exciting news until the end and unveiled what he called “a new era of PC” in partnership with Microsoft, which he called the biggest “PC reinvention in 40 years”.
Microsoft and Nvidia are reinventing desktops, laptops and workstations. “The first reinvented line of engineering that has happened in 40 years,” Huang said.
The tech boss said his theory is that just as homes have lawnmowers and dishwashers, one day homes will have an AI supercomputer which will become part of normal life.
“I imagine someday an AI supercomputer in your house running [AI] agents. And you have to have it in your house and these in time become more like R2-D2 to you than a PC to you,” he said.
There is “no question” that the technology is just like the reinvention of the phone to smartphone and this is “the beginning of that journey,” he said.
The computers will run on RTX Spark, a new "superchip" that brings AI agents, content creation, and gaming together on a single portable device.
The RTX Spark-powered laptops will launch later this autumn but the price has not been disclosed. Huang also said Adobe is rebuilding Photoshop and Premiere Pro to use RTX Spark's architecture.
2. AI agents
“Today, agentic and useful AI has arrived,” Huang said at the beginning of the talk, marking AI agents as central to the conference.
In theory, AI agents are designed to take autonomous actions to assist humans and do not require a human to tell them what to do, as they gather data based on user preferences.
However, the technology is still not sophisticated enough and still needs human input.
3. The economics of AI
Jensen, however, was more confident about the technology and went into the economics of AI and spoke a lot about “super agents”, which can be a “profit generator” for companies.
“Compute is revenue. The more you buy, the more you make,” he said.
“All of you are experiencing this with me; everyone wants to make money. They realise profitable AI is here, compute demand is incredibly high. Let’s go help the world and build AI factories around the world,” he said.
To run these agents at a speed that is fast enough, Huang unveiled Nvidia Vera, a new class of processor enabling 1.8x faster task completion.
He described Vera as a Central Processing Unit (CPU) for AI agents, which he called the “last computer science breakthrough”.
The only sustainability part mentioned by Huang was that the Rubin GPU and Vera CPU architectures are expected to be designed for full liquid cooling.
What is also interesting is that there are no cables, no hoses, and no fans.
4. AI isn’t taking jobs
Huang began the conference by saying that it is ‘complete nonsense’ that AI is taking jobs from software engineers and the industry is instead hiring more of them.
The Nvidia chief has long repeated that the real risk is not AI taking your job but rather someone who knows how to use AI taking it.
5. The cringe close
Nvidia closed out the two-hour presentation with an AI-generated video of robots strolling down Taipei’s night markets and singing a song about the announcements from the keynote.
While the graphics were impressive, it was just a little bit cringe.
