Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developer convention in San Jose, California, subsequent week with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for Monday at 11am PT / 2pm ET.

GTC — which stands for GPU Expertise Convention — is Nvidia’s flagship annual occasion, the place the chipmaker usually makes use of the highlight to announce new merchandise, champion partnerships, and lay out its imaginative and prescient for the way forward for computing. Huang’s keynote will give attention to Nvidia’s function in the way forward for computing and AI. You’ll be able to watch the two-hour tackle in individual on the SAP Center or livestream the talk on the occasion’s web site.

The broader three-day occasion is targeted on what’s coming subsequent for AI throughout industries together with healthcare, robotics, and autonomous autos, amongst others.

On the software program aspect, it’s rumored that Nvidia will launch an open supply platform for enterprise AI brokers, dubbed NemoClaw, as initially reported by Wired. The platform would give companies a structured solution to construct and deploy AI brokers (software program that may perform multi-step duties autonomously) and would place Nvidia to reflect similar offerings from firms like OpenAI.

On the {hardware} aspect, the corporate can also be rumored to be releasing a new chip designed to accelerate the AI inference process — the method by which an AI mannequin applies what it has discovered to generate responses or make selections, as distinct from the preliminary coaching course of, which requires much more computing energy. Quicker, cheaper inference is extensively seen as one of many final bottlenecks to scaling AI purposes broadly. The chip, if confirmed, would characterize Nvidia’s newest bid to dominate not simply the coaching market, the place it already instructions an estimated 80% share, however the inference market as nicely, the place competitors from customized chips constructed by Google, Amazon and others is quick intensifying.

Kevin Cook dinner, a senior fairness strategist at Zacks Funding Analysis, instructed TechCrunch that attendees also needs to anticipate to study what the corporate plans to do with its relationship with Groq, the inference firm Nvidia reportedly paid $20 billion late final 12 months to license its know-how. There’s lots of curiosity round this tie-up, provided that Jonathan Ross, Groq’s founder, Sunny Madra, Groq’s President, and different members of the Groq group agreed to hitch Nvidia to assist advance and scale that licensed tech.

There’ll, in fact, even be a variety of partnership bulletins and demonstrations showcasing Nvidia’s AI capabilities throughout industries.