How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote

Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developers conference in San Jose, California, next week with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for Monday at 11 a.m. PT/2 p.m. ET.

GTC — which stands for GPU Technology Conference — is Nvidia’s flagship annual event, where the chipmaker typically uses the spotlight to announce new products, foster partnerships, and lay out its vision for the future of computing. Huang’s keynote will focus on Nvidia’s role in the future of computing and artificial intelligence. You can watch the two-hour speech in person at the SAP Center or stream the conversation live on the event website.

The broader three-day event focuses on what comes next in AI across industries including healthcare, robotics, self-driving vehicles and more.

On the software side, Nvidia is rumored to be launching an open source platform for enterprise AI customers, dubbed NemoClaw, as Wired originally reported. The platform will give companies a structured way to build and deploy AI agents (programs that can perform multi-step tasks autonomously) and will position Nvidia to mirror similar offerings from companies like OpenAI.

On the hardware side, the company is also rumored to be launching a new chip designed to speed up AI inference — the process by which an AI model applies what it has learned to generate responses or make decisions, as opposed to the initial training process, which requires much more computing power. Faster and cheaper inference is widely viewed as one of the last bottlenecks to broadly scaling AI applications. The chip, if confirmed, would represent Nvidia’s latest attempt to dominate not only the training market, where it already controls an estimated 80% share, but also the inference market, where competition is rapidly intensifying from custom chips made by Google, Amazon and others.

Kevin Cook, chief equity strategist at Zacks Investment Research, told TechCrunch that attendees should also expect to learn what the company plans to do with its relationship with Groq, as inference company Nvidia reportedly paid $20 billion late last year to license its technology. There’s a lot of curiosity about this relationship, given that Jonathan Ross, founder of Groq, Sunny Madra, president of Groq, and other members of the Groq team have agreed to join Nvidia to help develop and scale this licensed technology.

There will of course also be a range of partnership announcements and demos showcasing Nvidia’s AI capabilities across industries.