Nvidia GTC 2026 unveils a sweeping AI strategy spanning robotics, personal agents, and open models with the new Nemotron Coalition, as the company fights to defend its CUDA dominance against rising competitors and cement itself as the foundational platform of the entire AI industry.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces the company projects over $1 trillion in data center sales through 2027, driven largely by hyperscalers like Amazon and Google, with the actual total expected to surpass $1.25 trillion once newly debuted chip platforms are factored in.
AI giants like OpenAI, Nvidia, and Anthropic are racing to dominate a multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure buildout, with OpenAI raising $110 billion in a single funding round, as experts warn the dangerous concentration of power over AI models, data centers, and energy mirrors the social media era and risks enabling bioweapons, election …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang launches NemoClaw, a free open-source AI agent platform, repositioning Nvidia as the operating system of the AI era while using the move to defend GPU hardware demand against rival chips and prevent customers like OpenAI from gaining enough dominance to threaten Nvidia's pricing power.
Samsung announces a record $73.3 billion investment in chip capacity and research for 2026, a 22% spending surge designed to wrestle AI semiconductor dominance away from SK Hynix and outpace TSMC's $50 billion capex plan.
Baidu launches the Qianfan-VL series of vision-language models ranging from 3B to 70B parameters, alongside a new 4B Qianfan-OCR model featuring 'Layout-as-Thought' reasoning that tops major benchmarks, supports 192 languages, and is built for enterprise document understanding and visual reasoning tasks.
Samsung and AMD sign a landmark deal making Samsung the primary supplier of next-gen HBM4 high-bandwidth memory chips for AMD's MI455X AI accelerators, deepening their alliance in the rapidly growing AI data center market.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveils NemoClaw at GTC, a powerful agent platform merging Nemotron models with self-evolving autonomous AI, while expanding its Vera Rubin rack with Groq 3 LPU chips to meet surging agentic AI computing demands ahead of a 2026 release.
IREN launches a massive 1,600MW AI data center campus across 2,000 acres in Oklahoma, backed by a landmark $9.7 billion Microsoft deal, positioning the facility as a major emerging hub for AI infrastructure in the United States with power ramping up in 2028.
AWS launches llm-d disaggregated inference on SageMaker HyperPod and EKS, delivering up to 70% higher LLM throughput by splitting compute-heavy prefill and memory-bound decode phases across distributed GPUs using an open-source Kubernetes-native framework built on vLLM.