NVIDIA GTC San Jose 2026 Highlights: AI Innovation and Insights (original) (raw)

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NVIDIA GTC brings together thousands of developers, researchers, and business leaders, through our global conference and regional events worldwide, to explore the AI breakthroughs transforming every industry.

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Pras Velagapudi

CTO
Agility Robotics

Mira Murati

Founder and CEO
Thinking Machines Lab

Jeff Dean

Chief Scientist
Google DeepMind and Google Research

Dario Gil

Undersecretary for Science
U.S. Department of Energy

Chelsea Finn

Assistant Professor, Stanford University Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence

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Agentic AI and Reasoning AI

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AI Factories and Scaling Infrastructure

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AI for Science

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CUDA, Libraries, and Developer Tools

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High-Performance Inference and Training

Learn how to scale model training and AI inference together so your most demanding reasoning models, agents, and robotics workloads run faster, cheaper, and more reliably in production.

Open Models

Explore the new universe of open models, data, and tools that let you customize deeply, integrate quickly into your agent architectures, and deploy trustworthy AI tailored to your domain.

Physical AI and Robotics

See how NVIDIA open models, libraries, and simulation frameworks are helping developers build the next generation of factories, robots, and autonomous vehicles.

Quantum Computing and HPC

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