In its 18th annual GTC conference last week, Nvidia Corp. not surprisingly aimed to get audience members’ hearts pumping for what’s next — which obviously is the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence. Nvidia co-founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang once again played his traditional keynote speaker role. As usual, he was dressed in all black, including a leather jacket. On Tuesday, Huang held court without a script for more than two hours, introducing Nvidia’s upcoming products.
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One of the more compelling sessions at Nvidia Corp.’s recent GTC conference was a discussion between Azita Martin, vice president and general manager of artificial intelligence for retail and CPG at Nvidia, and Seemantini Godbole, executive vice president and chief digital and information officer at home improvement retailer Lowe’s Cos. Inc.
With the AI boom in full throttle, there has been no trade show in recent memory that I can recall more eagerly anticipated than Nvidia Corp.’s GTC 2024. After five years of being virtual, the event returned to an in-person format, adding to the excitement.
As Nvidia Corp.‘s annual developer conference GTC kicked off this week in San Jose, the company made its usual flurry of product announcements, the highlight of which was the long-awaited Blackwell platform. One might look at Blackwell as a graphics processing unit, but in reality, it’s more than that, hence the “platform” descriptor.