Nvidia on Tuesday announced an upgraded artificial intelligence platform, Blackwell Ultra, which it says will help apps reason and act on a user’s behalf – two capabilities that would take AI beyond chatbots further into real life.

Jensen Huang, Nvidia Corp.’s chief executive officer, used his annual developer conference to address concerns that the cost of artificial intelligence computing is spiraling out of control.

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.

Jetson Thor Complementing Project GR00T, NVIDIA announced Jetson Thor, a new computer built specifically for humanoid robots. Equipped with generative AI (GenAI) capabilities, Jetson Thor enhances the functionality of robots, enabling more advanced and autonomous operations.

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, starts this week in San Jose. We're on the ground covering all the major developments. CEO Jensen Huang will give a keynote address focusing on — what else?