STORY: :: Thousands of tech industry reps flock to
Nvidia’s developer conference
:: March 18, 2025
:: San Jose, California
:: Laura Schweiger, Senior Business Development Manager, Lightly
“Yes, I mean, it’s insane. Like when I got here, like, I got here yesterday, and it’s so many people from all across the, across the world and I think it’s a great, yeah, it’s basically the place to be if you want to know what, what happens in AI. And also like I tried to get into the keynote at the SAP Center today, I couldn’t find the end of the line. I was like ‘I’ve been to a Taylor Swift concert, it hasn’t been this bad’. So it’s definitely music festival vibes here.”
:: Bobby Mohr, VP of Global Sales, Pinecone
“You know, the most exciting application of like artificial intelligence is going to be like real world and sort of autonomy. And they’re (Nvidia) very much creating the building blocks for that.”
:: Carlo Malana, President and CEO, STT GDC Philippines
“Being here I think really opens your eyes into what’s, you know, we’re just seeing the very, very tip of the iceberg. And there’s a whole lot underneath that still has to surface now and we’re seeing it in all sorts of applications like robotics and the like, you know that we just described. Those things are unimaginable where we are (in the Philippines), a country with 120 million people mostly in manual type situations, but it’s going to be really interesting in how this will impact the rest of the world, as it radiates from GTC.”
Speaking from the SAP Center, Huang announced a slew of new products, including its next GPU chip Blackwell Ultra, a chip system called Vera Rubin, a powerful new personal computer called DGX Workstation based on Blackwell chips, and a deal with automaker General Motors to build its self-driving car fleet.
Just a mile (1.6 kilometer) away, people who couldn’t get into the SAP Center watched on a big screen outside of the convention center, where exhibitors will show off their latest products in AI-related tech this week.
One conference goer described the atmosphere as “insane,” comparing it to a Taylor Swift concert.
Nvidia’s big moneymaking chips face pressure from technological change as AI markets shift from “training” AI models such as chatbots on huge troves of data to make them smart, to “inference,” which is when the model uses its intelligence to produce answers for users.
Much of Nvidia’s success stems from the decade the Santa Clara, California-based company spent building software tools to impress AI researchers and developers – but it was Nvidia’s data center chips, which sell for tens of thousands of dollars each, that accounted for the bulk of its $130.5 billion in sales last year.
Its stock has more than quadrupled in value over the past three years as the company powered the rise of advanced AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude and many others.
