NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, also known as GTC, is coming up.The event is happening March 17-21 in San Jose, but you can also follow along with all the big developments here at Engadget.We'll have a liveblog for the keynote with CEO Jensen Huang on March 18 at 1PM ET (or 10AM PT), which is when most of the big news will drop.
His speech will also be livestreamed for free, so you can watch it on NVIDIA's website too.From a quick glance at the session catalog on NVIDIA's website, we can make a few educated guesses.Topics range from quantum computing and "physical AI" to robotics, healthcare and Agentic AI.Huang himself is hosting the quantum computing chat with a bevy of participants from companies like Microsoft and Amazon, too.It's a safe bet that you'll hear a whole lot about artificial intelligence during the week, but with all the changes in the computing landscape over the past 12 months, the stakes might be higher for the company to make serious waves at this conference.What to expect at NVIDIA GTC 2025NVIDIA has been going all-in on AI for years now, and that makes it a regular highlight for GTC programming.
Last year saw the company unveiling its Blackwell line of GPUs for faster and less demanding computations.We're guessing that Huang will introduce another iteration of Blackwell GPUs with even better specs this time around.NVIDIA is also likely to share updates on its projects in automotive, robotics and quantum computing.ADVERTISEMENTAdvertisementBut the company is in a very different situation in early 2025 than it was going into last year's conference.
NVIDIA is no longer sitting quite so comfortably at the top of the heap.The emergence of DeepSeek's reasoning model caused a plunge for tech stocks, including NVIDIA's, earlier this year.There have been lots of issues related to its latest RTX product launches and splashy tech for AI-generated NPCs in gaming are, unsurprisingly, pretty soulless.Basically, NVIDIA needs a win.
This would be the time for Huang to drop something surprising and exciting.Hopefully he delivers.Update, March 12 2025, 1:18PM ET: This story has been updated to add information gleaned from NVIDIA's session catalog to the intro.If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission.