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We're moments away from GTC 2026 Hello and welcome to Tom's Hardware's live blog for the GTC 2026 keynote. Jensen Huang is moments away from taking the stage. Myself, Jake Roach, will be tending the blog while our very own Paul Alcorn and Jeffrey Kampman are on the ground to cover all of the announcements in real-time.
T-Minus 5 Minutes (Image credit: Tom's Hardware.) Run to the bathroom, get your drink ready, and settle in. We're just a few minutes away from the start of GTC 2026. Jensen will probably start with a short history of Nvidia's role in AI, but we expect the announcements to rapid-fire out after that point. We're sat down in the SAP Center in San Jose and ready to dig in.
Running a bit behind schedule NVIDIA GTC Keynote 2026 - YouTube Watch On We're a few minutes past the top of the hour, and we're still waiting on the keynote to start. In the meantime, a quick reminder that you can watch along with us through the live stream above.
That's... a lot of country music? We're all sitting in surprise here at Tom's Hardware at the amount of country music playing before Jensen takes the stage. We're nearly a quarter past the top of the hour at this point and still waiting for the keynote to start. There's nothing wrong with country music, but rustic Americana and enterprise AI isn't a combo I'd normally expect.
And we're off! We may have started a few minutes late, but the keynote has officially begun. We begin with a short video about AI tokens and all the wonderful things (according to Nvidia) we've all done with them, from healthcare to space to construction.
The man of the hour is here: CEO Jensen Huang (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) Jensen Huang has taken the stage in a familiar leather jacket. Sorry folks, there's no special jacket this time around. Jensen is starting off the show thanking some of the people that hosted the preshow leading up to the keynote.
'We've been working on CUDA for 20 years' (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) CUDA is one of the major reasons Nvidia is in the position it's in today, and this GTC marks the 20th anniversary of CUDA. "The single hardest thing is to have built up our install base, we're in every cloud and computer company in every single industry," says Jensen.
Pricing of Ampere in the cloud is going up The prevalence of CUDA has accelerated what Nvidia calls a "flywheel." Nvidia attracts developers who develop on CUDA, which leads to more people adopting Nvidia hardware, and the lifecycle continues. Because of this, Jensen says the price of GPUs using the now-dated Ampere architecture has actually gone up in the cloud.
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