Nvidia founder Jensen Huang kicked off the company’s artificial intelligence developer conference on Tuesday by telling a crowd of thousands that AI is going through “an inflection point.” At GTC 2025 — dubbed the “Super Bowl of AI” — Huang focused his keynote on the company’s advancements in AI and his predictions for how the industry will move

The centerpiece announcement was Vera Rubin, first announced at Computex 2024 and now scheduled for release in the second half of 2026. This GPU, named after a famous astronomer, will feature tens of terabytes of memory and comes with a custom Nvidia-designed CPU called Vera.

Nvidia will also offer a single rack called the GB300 NVL72 that offers 1.1 exaflops of FP4, 20TB of HBM memory, 40TB of “fast memory,” 130TB/sec of NVLink bandwidth and 14.4 TB/sec networking.