At its GTC DC event, the company announced major initiatives spanning quantum computing, 6G networks and “AI factories” built with the United States Department of Energy and Oracle Corp. — all framed as part of what executives described as America’s next industrial and scientific renaissance.

Case in point: when BlueField-4 was first hinted at in 2021, it was slated for 2024. Now it’s set for 2026 as part of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform, with its eventual successor, the BlueField-5, hinted at for 2028.

Uber and Nvidia are partnering to build a fleet of 100,000 robotaxis. “This is going to be a new computing platform for us, and I’m expecting it to be quite successful,” CEO Jensen Huang said at Nvidia’s first-ever Washington D.C. edition of its highly anticipated GTC AI conference.

Lucid and Nvidia announced that they are teaming up to bring Level 4 autonomous driving, akin to a Waymo robotaxi, to future Lucid vehicles.

ASUS will showcase a flexible, end-to-end AI Factory at NVIDIAGTC Washington, D.C. (Walter E. Washington Convention Center; ASUS booth #738). Spanning extreme edge, deskside, and rack-scale deployments built on NVIDIA Blackwell architecture,

NVIDIA's CEO introduced NVIDIA ARC, a new product line, and announced partnerships with Nokia and the U.S. Department of Energy at the GTC event. The company plans to build AI supercomputers and develop quantum equipment.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is delivering his first keynote at the Washington, D.C., iteration of the GTC developer conference. He’ll be focused on U.S. AI infrastructure, quantum computing and robotics.

In fact, HPE-Nvidia AI Factory is squarely focused on providing a holistic approach to its Nvidia AI Computing portfolio that addresses the “high failure rates of achieving an [AI] outcome that can scale,” said Braun in a press conference detailing the new offerings.

At Nvidia’s first Washington GTC, the company that made GPUs a religion is courting a new congregation: agencies with budgets bigger than data centers