Jensen Huang At GTC Berlin: Nvidia Showcases A Full Stack

There was a lot going on when Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, took the stage at Berlin’s GTC event, which is going on right now (as of press time). In fact, it was a little hard to take it all in, so let’s start with some context.

Right now, people are asking about how we safely integrate powerful technologies into our world. AI is maturing, and becoming more powerful, and regulation and smart application are seeming to lag. There are all sorts of questions about how to really tackle the promise and the threat that artificial intelligence has become.

In that scenario, Nvidia’s new announcements, heralded by its Taiwanese leader who dreamed the whole thing up in a Denny’s in Kentucky, have a certain kind of importance. I’m going to try to summarize some of this stuff, according to what I think it means for the future.

A Tower of Towers

Part of Huang’s explication of Nvidia’s new strategies, products, and various adventures is that it’s important to look at the full stack: from the energy needed to drive data centers, to the models, to the agents and harnesses, etc. And when you look at the laundry list of things that Nvidia is doing, you can see that indeed, the company is addressing the whole stack. There’s the hardware, for which Nvidia is famous, and the models, like GROOT and Alpamayo and Nemotron, which I’ve written about in the past as a colossal pivot for the firm. And then there are new safety initiatives, which I want to touch on as new framing for a new day.

Anyway, you can see that all of this contemplates AI across the full stack, as it were.

Focusing the AI Agents

There’s a part of Huang’s comments that really stuck out to me.

One of Jensen’s main points as he announced the tech struck me as simple, yet critically important, and something that we have to date been missing. It’s basically permissions.

There’s a lot more to it than that; go forth and research this. I think OpenShell and its attendant tools are going to be really useful.

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