Nvidia on Tuesday announced an upgraded artificial intelligence platform, Blackwell Ultra, which it says will help apps reason and act on a user’s behalf – two capabilities that would take AI beyond chatbots further into real life.

Jensen Huang, Nvidia Corp.’s chief executive officer, used his annual developer conference to address concerns that the cost of artificial intelligence computing is spiraling out of control.

Two new Nvidia computers, DGX Spark and DGX Station, are designed to let users prototype and fine-tune models at the edge.

Jensen Huang headlined the Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote, giving updates on Blackwell, Vera Rubin, and a new Disney and Google Deepmind partnership.

The computing power needed for new AI is “easily 100 times more than we thought we needed this time last year,” Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says.

The centerpiece announcement was Vera Rubin, first teased at Computex 2024 and now scheduled for release in the second half of 2026. This GPU, named after a famous astronomer, will feature tens of terabytes of memory and comes with a custom Nvidia-designed CPU called Vera.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presented the company’s new chips and hyped the data center industry’s build-out. Huang laid out the map: The company’s next AI chip out of the fab will be Blackwell Ultra, which debuts in the second half of this year.

Nvidia founder Jensen Huang kicked off the company’s artificial intelligence developer conference, on Tuesday by telling a crowd of thousands that AI is going through “an inflection point.”