How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote

Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in San Jose next week with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for Monday at 11am PT / 2pm ET.

GTC – which stands for GPU Technology Conference – is Nvidia’s annual flagship event, where the chipmaker typically uses the spotlight to announce new products, promote partnerships and lay out its vision for the future of computing. Huang’s keynote will focus on Nvidia’s role in the future of computing and AI. You can watch the two-hour speech in person at the SAP center or livestream the conversation on the event website.

The broader three-day event focuses on what’s next for AI in healthcare, robotics and autonomous vehicles, among others.

What to expect

On the software side, there are rumors that Nvidia will release an open source platform for enterprise AI agents called Nemoclawas originally reported by Wired. The platform would provide companies with a structured way to build and deploy AI agents (software that can autonomously perform multi-step tasks) and would position Nvidia to mirror similar offerings from companies like OpenAI.

On the hardware front, the company is also rumored to have one new chip designed to speed up the AI ​​inference process – the process by which an AI model applies what it has learned to generate responses or make decisions, as opposed to the initial training process, which requires much more computing power. Faster, cheaper inference is widely seen as one of the last bottlenecks in widely scaling AI applications. The chip, if confirmed, would represent Nvidia’s latest attempt to dominate not only the training market, where it already has an estimated 80% share, but also the inference market, where competition from custom chips built by Google, Amazon and others is rapidly increasing.

Kevin Cook, a senior equity strategist at Zacks Investment Research, told TechCrunch that attendees should also expect to hear what the company plans to do with its relationship with Groq, the inference company Nvidia reportedly paid $20 billion to license its technology late last year. There is a lot of curiosity about this partnership, as Jonathan Ross, the founder of Groq, Sunny Madra, the president of Groq, and other members of the Groq team agreed to join Nvidia to help advance and scale that licensed technology.

There will of course also be a series of partnership announcements and demonstrations showcasing Nvidia’s AI capabilities across industries.