Useful artificial intelligence has arrived, and if Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang is right, it is about to reshape not only data centers but also the structure of the global economy and the tech labor market. In his GTC Taipei 2026 keynote, Huang laid out his vision for the “age of agents,” agentic AI systems that don’t just answer questions but also observe, reason, plan and act across distributed infrastructure.
For years, the “wall” between storage and networking administrators has been a fixture of the enterprise data center. I spent the early part of my career as a network engineer and the arena of storage was a bit of a black box, and for most companies, that’s still the case. This is because these networks operated differently.
As an industry, healthcare tends to be slow-moving and significantly behind others. There are many reasons for this, including budgets, availability of technology and the fact that any errors in healthcare can result in lost lives. Healthcare transformation has been a big part of past Nvidia GTC conferences, and it was again this year.
The initial phase of the artificial intelligence gold rush was defined by “The Build.” Hyperscalers and model builders raced to secure every available Nvidia Corp. H100 GPU, constructing massive, centralized cathedrals of compute. But as the industry descends from the peak of inflated expectations toward real-world utility, the conversation is shifting. AI is moving from the lab to the factory floor, the retail aisle and the telco edge.
As artificial intelligence continues to steamroll its way into every part of our lives, Nvidia Corp.’s GPU Technology Conference events have grown in importance, and this week’s fall installment in Washington, D.C. provided the customary showcase of how and what is possible.