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Nvidia GTC 2025: What to expect from the AI leader

News Analysis By Dan Muse
Mar 10, 20253 mins
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Expect Nvidia GTC 2025 to feature AI advancements, Jensen Huang's keynote, new GPUs, edge AI and CUDA updates. Stay tuned for previews and event coverage..

New York, USA - January 31, 2025: NVIDIA GTC website homepage on laptop screen showcasing AI conference details and technology innovations
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No company has both driven and benefited from AI advancements more than Nvidia. Last year, Nvidia’s GTC 2024 grabbed headlines with its introduction of the Blackwell architecture and the DGX systems powered by it. With GTC 2025 right around the corner (it runs March 17- 21 in San Jose, Calif.), the tech world is eager to see what Nvidia – and its partners and competitors – will unveil next. 

Expect GTC 2025 to further solidify Nvidia’s position as an AI leader as it showcases practical applications of generative AI, moving beyond theoretical concepts to real-world implementations. With the evolution of large language models (LLMs), Nvidia will likely demonstrate how these technologies are transforming industries, from healthcare and finance to manufacturing and entertainment

Center stage, of course, will be Nvidia’s founder and CEO, Jensen Huang. Known for captivating presentation style and bold pronouncements, Huang’s keynote is expected to set the tone for the conference, offering a glimpse into Nvidia’s vision for the future of AI.

Given the increasing demand for AI workloads, expect to see advancements in Nvidia GPUs aimed at addressing power efficiency and scalability, enabling more complex and demanding AI applications.

You can also expect a focus on edge AI. Given the proliferation of IoT devices and the need for real-time data processing, Nvidia will likely bring AI capabilities closer to the data source.

Nvidia will likely introduce updates to its CUDA (compute unified device architecture) platform, which the company developed to expand the capabilities of GPU acceleration. It’s designed to allow developers to access the computing power of CUDA GPUs and offers libraries and frameworks built to simplify AI development and deployment.

In addition to Nvidia, the exhibitor list is a who’s who of the tech industry, featuring companies like AWS, Dell Technologies, HPE, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Databricks, Cisco, Cloudflare, Snowflake, Equinix to name a few.

Follow this page for previews and coverage from Nvidia GTC 2025 and follow Networkworld’s ongoing coverage of Nvidia throughout the year.

Cisco, Nvidia expand AI partnership to include Silicon One technology

February 18, 2025:  Cisco and Nvidia expanded their collaboration to support enterprise AI implementations by tying Cisco’s Silicon One technology to Nvidia’s Ethernet networking platform.

Nvidia forges healthcare partnerships to advance AI-driven genomics, drug discovery

February 14, 2025: Through new partnerships with industry leaders, Nvidia aims to help advance practical use cases for AI in healthcare and life sciences.

Nvidia partners with cybersecurity vendors for real-time monitoring

February 12, 2025: Nvidia has partnered with cybersecurity firms to provide real-time security protection using its accelerator and networking hardware in combination with its AI software. Nvidia will partner to integrate BlueField and Morpheus hardware with cyber defenses software from Armis, Check Point Software Technologies, CrowdStrike, Deloitte and World Wide Technology (WWT).

Nvidia claims near 50% boost in AI storage speed

February 5, 2025: Nvidia is touting a 50% gain in storage read bandwidth thanks to intelligence in its Spectrum-X Ethernet networking equipment. Spectrum-X is a combination of the company’s Spectrum-4 Ethernet switch and BlueField-3 SuperNIC smart networking card, which supports RoCE v2 for remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet.

F5, Nvidia team to boost AI, cloud security

October 24, 2024: F5 and Nvidia are expanding their partnership to help enterprises build AI infrastructure and bolster cloud-based application security. Specifically, the companies will be integrating F5’s BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes platform and Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs to offer customers a package capable of supporting AI networking and security duties while ensuring traffic management for cloud-based Kubernetes applications. 

Nvidia contributes Blackwell rack design to Open Compute Project

October 15, 2024:  Nvidia contributed its Blackwell GB200 NVL72 electro-mechanical designs – including the rack architecture, compute and switch tray mechanicals, liquid cooling and thermal environment specifications, and Nvidia NVLink cable cartridge volumetrics – to the Open Compute Project (OCP).

Coverage of Nvidia GTC 2024

Nvidia GTC 2024 wrap-up: Blackwell not the only big news

March 29, 2024: As Nvidia GTC 2025 approaches, let’s look back at news from GTC 2024. While the introduction of Blackwell architecture and the massive new DGX systems were the stars of the show, here’s a rundown of some of the other announcements.

Nvidia launches Blackwell GPU architecture

March 18, 2024: Nvidia kicked off its GTC 2024 conference with the formal launch of Blackwell, its next-generation GPU architecture Blackwell uses a chiplet design, to a point. Whereas AMD’s designs have several chiplets, Blackwell has two very large dies that are tied together as one GPU with a high-speed interlink that operates at 10 terabytes per second, according to Ian Buck, vice president of HPC at Nvidia.

Nvidia debuts massive Blackwell-powered systems

March 18, 2024: Along with its new Blackwell architecture, Nvidia unveiled new DGX systems that offer significant performance gains compared to the older generation. Iterations of Nvidia’s existing DGX servers range from 8 Hopper processors to 256 processors Nvidia is following a similar configuration structure for the Blackwell generation.

Dan Muse
Former editor of Insider Pro and former editor in chief of CIO.com

Dan Muse is the former editor of Insider Pro and director of audience engagement for IDG's B2B sites. He is also the former editor in chief of CIO.com. He's covered technology for three decades and held senior editorial positions with Ziff Davis, Jupitermedia, Disney Publishing, McGraw-Hill and Advance Digital.

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