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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference. My name is Jim Schneider from Goldman Sachs, and we are really thrilled to have NVIDIA and CEO, Jensen Huang with us today. Welcome, Jensen. Thanks for being here.

Thank you. Great to be here.

Now Jensen, last year, your prediction of $3 trillion to $4 trillion in AI infrastructure spending by 2030, I think, raised a lot of eyebrows in the investor community. But it seems like we're actually really rapidly progressing toward that figure right now. What technical advancements or market developments with respect to AI?

I just think we should just take a pause and acknowledge that I was right.

We're doing that. We're doing that.

Just take a pause. Take your time.

What do people miss or underappreciate? And sort of where do you stand with respect to that our...

The question is why did I know that? Isn't that right? Isn't that right? The question is why did I know that? And it's actually fairly simple. The last industrial revolution made it possible for us to power everything, and we distributed power everywhere. And then, of course, the Internet made it possible so that we can find anything. That's the big idea. You plug into the wall back in the old days, Ethernet jack or modem and now WiFi, you plug it in and you can find anything. And so it's not a small thing. It's a very big deal.

And because you could find anything and because everybody wants to find everything, we had to make it part of the infrastructure. And because we wanted to -- we can distribute power anywhere, we want to power everything, we distributed power everywhere became part of infrastructure. And so now we can find anything, find everything. But obviously, that's not what people want.

What we all want is to know everything. We want to ask anything, know everything. And that's the layer of computing that we're building now that makes it possible so that whatever you want to ask and whatever you want to know, you can. And so that's the big idea with artificial intelligence. And a computer is in the middle of doing that. The first instrument was called a Dynamo and the next one, obviously, called the computer, and now we have these AI factories and they produce numbers, just like the Internet produces numbers. And at some level, is that simplistic?

Now the question is very simple. How did the computer industry go from that to this and what the implication? And there are 2 compounding problems, 2 compounding challenges. The first one is that in the last generation of computers, it was used by humans, and because you're looking things up. And you bought computers, you bought the computers as a tool, as a terminal. And so that you can find anything, find everything. And so now in this new world, and so long as you prescribe to the idea that everybody wants to ask anything, find and know everything, if that's a world that you prescribe to and that you believe in and that it could somehow be integrated into almost everything we do, then the question is how do you build that layer of computing around the world.

That computer, as it turns out, is a generative computer. It's not a retrieval computer. And I think I've explained this to you guys in the past. The last 60 years, everything was prerecorded. And we put it on storage somewhere. And when you touch something on the phone, it goes and retrieves that piece of information. And in fact, it probably retrieves about somewhere between 3 to 10 pieces of information. And based on who you are, the cookies that are associated with you and your previous track record and your previous preferences, a recommender system would recommend one of those pieces of information to you, but it was all prerecorded. And so that model of computing is called retrieval-based.

Well, if your question -- if you want to ask anything and know everything, you want to actually know it, you don't want to find it, you want to know it. Then you have to generate the answer. You can't reasonably retrieve that, okay? And the reason for that is because in the old days, you have this idea called a recommender system, and it's based on your preferences.

Well, if you want to ask anything and know everything, then that preference has to be replaced by something else, and it's called context, right? So the query is called the prompt and the surrounding environment includes the context and also your preferences. The combination of all of that, you have to generate the answer. Now basically, what that says is that a new layer of computers that's continuously generating answers based on all the queries that are coming at it, has to get built. And so that it is no longer a bunch of storage, it's a bunch of computers. And what does that computer look like and what's the algorithm it runs. And so it's almost like everybody has our own recommender engine. Think of it that way.

Instead of having one giant RecSys engine for all of Meta, you now have a recommender engine literally for everybody. And these recommendation engines are really complex because the AI models are large. It has to be smart. It compresses a lot of the world's information.

And so now the second problem goes like this. It's the end of Moore's Law. And you guys -- the first time I said it some 15 years ago, there was a gas. I said something that hurt somebody's feelings. It just says transistors don't scale anymore, and it's not a big deal. And so if the transistors don't scale 2x per year or get half as big every other year, then the question is what's going to happen to the future as we're trying to do this other thing called generative AI or artificial intelligence as you like to think about it.

And so in this new world, where it's the end of Moore's Law, and we need a lot more transistors, then several things have to happen. The first thing that has to happen is you still want to get 100x and 1,000x improvement every few years. And if you want to do that, then you can't just live inside the chip. You have to codesign, which is the reason why NVIDIA became a co-design company, extreme codesign company. You guys hear that all the time from us.

And the second thing that you have to do is if you want twice as many transistors, you got to build twice as many chips. And so -- which is the reason why NVIDIA invented NVLink, right? And so you see -- the first thing that we did was we used co-ops and that made it possible for us to fuse multiple chips together. And then we did -- that wasn't been satisfying. So we took a whole bunch of chips and we connected them together into NVLink, which is the big breakthrough today.

If you don't have NVLink, if you can't have really excellent scale-up and scale-up technology is really hard, scale out is hard, scale up is incredibly hard. And so if you don't have that, you're dead in the water because Moore's Law is your enemy and these models are getting larger and larger and larger.

And so -- and then the third thing that happens, the compounded result of that is something that I predicted a while back, which is the semiconductor industry is going to be X times that larger. And the reason for that is very simple. Demand of the semiconductor industry has been growing for some time. And yet Moore's Law was a depreciating deflationary technology. And that was happening at the same time.

If you don't have the benefit of deflationary technology and the demand accelerates even further than that because instead of 1 billion people using tools and we sleep, now we have hundreds of billions of agents and have to think -- so it's not like a chatbot. You don't kid at one time. You got to think iteratively. So you compound all of this together, the semiconductor industry is going to just keep getting larger and larger, which is what we're seeing now.

And so these 2 fundamental ideas that we have a new layer of computing with a new application and the end of Moore's Law, meanwhile, people are expecting these AI models to be smarter and smart because they don't like wrong answers, then the compounded result of that should result in a very large industry. And so anyways, that's the end of my talk.

Excellent. I think one thing that investors have consistently questioned is the ROI of this technology. It's easy -- it's hard to look at the P&L today and say, "Oh, here's the gross margin or whatever. " But coding has clearly been a app for the industry. I think it's fair to say we're not going back to the old way on coding for sure. As you look ahead, what other applications or tasks do you think to really move the needle on both adoption and ROI for the industry?

Everything is coding. So when you buy a cookbook, you see the recipe, that's just an American word for coding. When you ask somebody how to do something that's coding. When you codify, you guys codify a business process, that's coding. And so everything is coding.

If you want to do something -- if you want to discover the best way of doing something and then after that, repeat it over and over again without anybody deviating from that process or that methodology or that best known process, however you guys, right, there's a lot of words about it. It's all coding. And we code in a lot of different ways. We code to make omlets. We code to repeatedly close our books and manage our supply chain.

We code in order to communicate with each other in a consistent way, connecting the connecting fabric, for example, the supply chain is one giant large piece of code, not one code, but trillions of pieces of code. And so everything that we do is, in fact, coding. And so it's a sensible thing. It's also the easiest thing for AI to learn. And the reason for that is because there's the right answer. And there's -- the best answer is hard to find, but the right answer is not hard to find. And so coding is an important part of it.

A derivative of coding is, of course, bug finding. And a derivative of that, which is a very large market is called cybersecurity. And the reason why there's so much conversation today about cybersecurity is because the industry is getting ready to launch some products and what better way to create demand and then to create a problem. And so who doesn't want their market to be historical about their product and line up around the corner for it. And so there are responsible ways of doing it, and there's less attractive ways of doing it.

But there's a lot of demand creation about cybersecurity today because new products are about to be launched. And if you can code well, so you must be able to debug well and red teaming is finding a bug, blue teaming is patching a bug. And so it's not a complicated concept. And -- but the fact of the matter is cybersecurity will likely be the next major use case of AI, and it's going to run continuously. And so -- it will be a great new business opportunity for the labs.

It will be a fabulous opportunity for CrowdStrike, and we have a big partnership with them using open models to create red teaming and blue teaming and have the asymmetric advantage of swarms of Nemotron models that are running continuously. We have a partnership with Cisco. I think today, Palantir, Cisco, NVIDIA, we're -- they're building -- Cisco is going to offer an entire AI factory platform from NVIDIA. Palantir is built on top of that. That's going to be taken out to all the countries and companies around the world to help them build either proprietary AI models based on Nemotron or cybersecurity red team, blue team models based on Nemotron.

And so anyways, this is just -- it's the time when it's the next click of AI coming out to the next market. And then, of course, there'll be future use cases. But at the core, code is very important. I think that one of the things, Jim, that I was going to mention is if you look at -- if you now -- we spoke about the industry and all and technology and all, but let me -- I'm here to sell some NVIDIA stock.

And so I don't want this meeting -- the agenda to be unclear. Where we're the world's first and only growth value stock. I think we're in every -- people are trying to figure out which one we are. And we're both. You can be both at the same time. And so -- and why is it that we're both at the same time? And let me just -- let me do some forensics on this for you.

NVIDIA is incredibly misunderstood. As large as we are, we're insanely misunderstood. And the reason for that is this, we invented the GPU. You can't uninvent the GPU. When you are NVIDIA, you can't uninvent NVIDIA. And everybody knows because they've known me for 30 years. Most of the AI researchers in the world, most of the tech CEOs, they grew up on products I built. That's how old I am.

When an AI researcher comes up and said, I use GeForce 2060 when I was 8 years old. That's not a compliment, okay? They're just counting the years. And so my point is, we have always been a GPU company. It's not who we are today, but unfortunately, that's where we started. It doesn't make sense. We're not unproud of it, but most people think NVIDIA builds a chip. I mean you need airplanes to ship what we build. Each one of our system, each chip, if you will, 1 GPU is 2 tons. One GPU is now -- it's not $399, not $399. It's $8.5 million. That's 1 GPU, all connected with NVLink, 2 million parts, right, 250,000 kilowatts. That's a GPU. And we ship thousands of them.

I think I was just seeing the reports this morning, Grace Blackwell, NVLink 72 racks, month-to-month increase 27%. And so you don't have month-to-month increase of 27%. That compounds. That's called a high-growth value stock. All right. So number one, we went from Hopper, which is about -- now Hopper is the name of an architecture, not a chip. and Blackwell is name of an architecture, not a chip. And these architectures are expanding in their scope. So Hopper was about $18,000 or so per GPU system and Blackwell went to about 25 and Vera Rubin is about 40.

And the reason for that is because we're offering more and more and more of the overall AI factory. We see the AI factory in our head. We're trying to use extreme codesign to overcome the challenges of Moore's Law. And between algorithms and software and system and interconnect and new technologies that we invent along the way, we create a generation every single time that's many times faster or more productive in token generation capability than the generation before.

And so the first thing that we do is we're increasing our SAM of the world's CapEx, okay? So mission number one. Not only are we growing, we're also capturing more at the same time.

The second thing is it is incredible, but there are more model companies today than there was a year ago than 2 years ago, a lot more. There are a lot more frontier model makers today than there was a couple of years ago. And there's a whole bunch who are starting up right now with a whole bunch of great ideas, okay? And so my point is we're the only company in the world that actually runs every model. We didn't used to run Gemini. We run Gemini today. Of course, Grok Bot is doing fantastic. I can't wait to try it. And of course, Meta's Muse. These are all new. These are all net new, right? And not to mention, we didn't used to run Anthropic for a lot of different reasons. We just -- we didn't have the money to invest in them as a young company.

Now we have more money, and we're happy to invest in them and help them. But anyhow, our share of Anthropic is growing very quickly. And of course, we're delighted to see Anthropic and OpenAI in all of these labs growing, okay? And so the second growth that most people don't see is we're the only company that benefits from frontier closed open models.

We run everything. And so there's no company in the world who is indexed to open models, which is growing incredibly fast, except for us. But you can't find that number anywhere. You open router is a good place to go look at these things, where you could see the growth. The world needs both closed models and open models, and we address them all, okay?

And then the third thing is the AI overall market is growing incredibly fast. But what we see are just the CSPs. We just see the cloud service providers. But remember, they're enterprises. Some of the great names of enterprises building AI factories are, of course, Jane Street and Hudson River and just about every quantitative trading company in the world is shifting into this new model of doing predictions. And of course, drug discovery with Lilly and Merck and BMS and many others have now created basically their robotics lab, basically lab in the loop, AI in the loop for wet labs. And so you need a supercomputer to do that. And so you have enterprises, but also the regional clouds.

One of the biggest challenges, and this is -- people are -- I've been talking about this and you want to make sure you understand the strategy. Upstream, the supply chain is very challenging. And the reason for that is because, obviously, we're growing super fast. So packaging is a challenge. DRAM is a challenge. LPDDR, DRAM is a challenge. Connectors are challenging. Everything is challenging, okay? Voltage regulators are challenging. Everything is challenging. Wafers are obviously challenging. All kinds of different challenges upstream.

But remember, the supply chain goes all the way to the end downstream until somebody stands up a computer and turns on to service. And so we've been thinking about the supply chain upstream and downstream. And one of the advantages that we have because our go-to-market, remember, we run everything. This is the power of general purpose versus specialization. Do you remember 2 years ago, 3 years ago, everybody just say specialization is better than general purpose because it's faster.

Well, if I can make general purpose faster than specialization, then specialization is all good. And the reason for that -- excuse me, generalization is all good. And the reason for that is because generalization gives you fungibility, durability, versatility, rentability and very importantly, today, because of capital constraints, everybody's balance sheets, investability.

Finally, we have a computer, the NVIDIA compute and finally, a computer that could be asset-backed. And so we can use it to secure loans, and that's a very powerful capability. And frankly, the only computing stack in the world that allows you to be able to say that because somebody could write step back in on it. So anyways, our market includes CSPs and of course, the regional clouds, the neoclouds.

The power of the neoclouds is this. They secure land power and shelf for us that the CSPs have already exhausted. Just remember this, this is a very big deal. Many countries want to -- many counties and regions want to secure the power and land for their own companies. And so we have neoclouds around the world from NScale and of course, CoreWeave and Nebius and they're doing fantastically.

Some new ones that are on the verge of going public or in the process of filing, whether it's NScale or Lambda or Firmus, you can see a whole new crop of really, really exciting neoclouds with hundreds of billions of dollars backlog together.

And so this is a capability that allows us to secure land, power and shell downstream and be diversified in our way of going to market. And so these 3 ideas, the whole AI market we serve completely, all of the models we serve completely and of course, the world's data center CapEx, we addressed a lot more of it, which is the reason why we're growing so fast.

Can I follow up on a couple of those points.

Yes.

So one on supply constraints. You talked about couple of weeks ago on your earnings call, high confidence in delivering 70% revenue growth next year, unconstrained demand growth of over 100%. You talked about upstream and downstream. Are you more concerned about the upstream component shortages? Or are you more concerned about the downstream, which you may have a little bit less direct control over in terms of land power shell and data center availability?

Well, this is -- the downstream is where NVIDIA's advantage is incredible. And upstream, our advantage is because of our scale. We have the largest supply chain in the world. And I've been working with the supply chain and these partners now for coming up on 3 decades. And when I make a prediction, they come through. And so -- and they like it when there are people who are right. And so because they have to put a lot of money at play and because NVIDIA has a track record of actually being helpful and truthful and good at predicting these things. Not to mention we can create our own market.

Don't forget, NVIDIA's platform is the only one that you can take all the way to the end market by yourself. Remember, we go to market through the CSPs, but we go to market through the OEMs. Look at Dell, they're doing incredibly, almost all 100% NVIDIA. I think it probably is 100% NVIDIA. Supermicro is doing well. Lenovo is doing well. HPE is doing well, and then Cisco is coming in. We have 100% of the world's enterprise go-to-market can take NVIDIA to market because we are a full stack AI factory platform. You come in, you can install the whole thing, add our software to it and be basically up in a couple of weeks and get to work.

And because these things are so expensive, the economics of it is so high that if you don't make it productive as fast as possible, the anxiety is really quite incredible. And so if you look at our go-to-market, we have diversity of channels. We have many ways to get them to market. And because of our neoclouds and because of sovereign AI capabilities and all driven by the fact that we are full stack, we have a rich ecosystem, we can reach all of these different marketplaces. And so the downstream part of it is a huge advantage for us.

There is no question land, power and shell is a problem. And so when I hear these people talk about these big numbers, the question -- and we're tracking every single gigawatt of land power shell around the world, literally everything on the planet. I mean just think about all my partners. How many neoclouds is reporting back to us? How many OEMs are reporting back to us? How many clouds are reporting back to us? How many AI native companies are reporting back to us. We're working with everybody.

And so we kind of know where everything is. And it's kind of -- it's pretty amazing. We've secured a lot of it. We've secured a lot of it. How can you otherwise be upstream? Obviously, TSMC would never tell you, I mean they would never say something like that, that they can somehow project how many gigawatts sold. How would they know because it's far away from downstream. But we're all the way upstream and downstream, which is the reason why NVIDIA and our position is so good.

Do you feel good about the closing that gap?

Yes, yes. I think we're -- we could grow 70% year-over-year, and we're confident about that. And we have a year to go work on improving that. And so we're going to come to work every day and make our living and get more supply, more fried chicken.

More Denny's.

More -- yes, more Denny's, more dinners. Whatever it takes.

Excellent. Your hyperscaler and large enterprise customers clearly can finance their spending independent...

Did you guys see what we announced this morning with Australia? Let's give you an example. In Australia, there's a whole bunch of energy. And we're working with all the companies and data center companies in the region. We stood up 2 gigawatts for 2027. So just put in perspective, 2 gigawatts for 2027, it's not a lot, but it's $80 billion.

It's a lot.

You guys are so hard to press these days. It's like 2 companies, but that's okay. Anyway, that was -- I don't even think I was -- was that a tweet or a press release? Was it a blog? But anyways, it's a very big deal because I love working -- Australia is a region that has -- they have excess energy, as you know. But they need several things. They need technology. This is where NVIDIA's AI factory -- full platform AI factory comes together. They need ecosystem offtakers. $400 billion of VC funding went into AI natives in the last 6 months, $400 billion.

AI natives, the definition of AI native is somebody who spends 2/3 of their raised money on compute. That's what it, right? And there is no such thing as a low CapEx software company anymore. Every technology company is going to be a high CapEx company in the future, high OpEx or high CapEx, but basically high compute because there are no non-AI companies. And so -- and we're working with just about every AI start-up in the world. And so we have the whole platform, we have offtake. They bring the regional land, power and shell, and we work with them to stand that up.

And then lastly, capital. And sometimes we invest in them. But one of the transitions, and this is the big idea that's happening right now. We're working with the financial industry and many of you and really appreciate the work together. We're moving NVIDIA compute from technology to an investable asset. And this transition, and I think when we make this transition, it will happen here fairly quickly, I think this is going to be a huge needle mover for people to recognize that our computing systems have long-term value, has durable value.

And at the moment, none of it's being valued. And so this is a huge untapped opportunity for us. And there's just so much evidence that the compute is productive. We sell it for, let's say, 1 gigawatt data center is probably like $60 billion. And so let's say it's over 6 years, $10 billion a year, let's just do some simple math. That $10 billion a year currently is being rented out for [ $50 billion ] as you guys know. It's -- the revenues per gigawatt right now is about $50 billion.

And so that's the economics of -- that's how productive our technology is. You can still rent Voltus. Voltus is 10 years old. Obviously, Mike just talked about renting Amperes. All the Ampere in the world are all rented out. And so durability, fungibility. NVIDIA runs every model. Every single lab can use us. And because our capacity is so large, it's kind of like TSMC. One of the values of TSMC, of course, is technology, but one of its most important values is capacity. I can build my company on top of TSMC. You can build your start-up on top of NVIDIA. No question about it.

We are not going to be your problem. You don't have to engineer us into existence. We are here for you as an AI platform. So the way I see TSMC is the way that AI natives and AI companies see us. We are a foundational platform of the AI ecosystem, foundational platform of the AI industry. And so...

Yes. And to your point, you're providing, in some cases, guarantees or backstops for those AI labs or neoclouds to kind of go secure land power and shell for their operations. You talked -- you've done that in a number of different ways over time, including the $500 billion platform you talked about recently. You said on your earnings call, you do not believe that circular finance.

And hopefully, most of that $500 billion is going to be asset backed. That's the big idea.

Yes.

That's the big idea.

So maybe help -- for people who are skeptical, explain maybe why you believe it's not circular.

Well, it's not circular because we put a little bit of money in and a lot of money comes back. Is that finance talk? I mean I look at the spreadsheet, we put in 1 and 100 comes back in. Is that circular? If that is, let's do more of that.

And not to mention the companies that we're investing in, we see their pipeline because we brought their pipeline to them. People are starting to recognize that wherever I invest, it's not a bad place to invest because I'm an informed investor. I'm not taking any risks. We're not smart like you guys. I need a sure thing. And so when I see the -- we bring the AI platform to them. They're securing -- they have to secure the land power and shell. They have to -- we help them with financing, but a very small part of it.

But the most important thing is we see their offtake because that financing doesn't come together without the offtake. And that offtake is $100 billion, and it's lined up contracts. It's total contracted value. It's real stuff. And we know where the demand is coming from and the quality of the demand. And so we see this bigger picture, which is the reason why it gives us confidence to do it.

And also, I think it's really smart strategy. I think it's necessary for us to help the industry create this network of neoclouds, which are going to be distribution channels for NVIDIA's architecture. It is also a place where all these AI natives that are being founded could land. And remember, AI is not going to be just global, AI is going to be regional. And the reason for that is because there's so many regional intelligences. And that's -- by definition, you're going to see AI becoming much, much more regionalized. And so we want to have hubs of NVIDIA partners all over the world. And so that's how -- the circular part of it doesn't make much sense to me because the number shows it doesn't.

Yes, the returns?

The returns too great. Yes, it's too good.

Maybe we only got a couple of minutes, but I'd love to hit on physical AI before we close. That's an area where you've really seeded the market across everything from automotive to industrial robots to humanoid robots, et cetera. I mean, how quickly do you think that market is going to take off? What is going to be the killer app in physical AI and sort of how big an opportunity you think this could be for the company by, let's say, 2030?

The first killer app for physical AI is just self-driving cars. There was a time, and it made no sense to believe that. There was a time when people thought the way to build a self-driving car is just to drive billions and trillions of miles. Obviously, there'll be a lot of casualty in between, but you wouldn't want that.

And what you're really looking for is a thinking car, a car that can reason. And we made some groundbreaking work in this area. It's called Alpamayo. It's the world's first reasoning and thinking car. And so it could see an environment it's never seen before, and it could reason about how to break it down just like agentic systems are reasoning. And it reasons -- breaks it down into things that it understands and can think about quite easily, just like us.

And so the number of miles that you need is actually quite few post training necessary. And I think physical AI, for example, has arrived for self-driving cars. I think in the next couple of 2, 3 years, you're going to see really great progress. Obviously, Waymo, obviously, Tesla, NVIDIA's Mercedes partnership. There's a whole bunch of others that are being teed up.

Our partnership with Uber, lots and lots of partnerships being teed up. And so that's the first application. Derivative applications of that are things called AMR and warehouse delivery vehicles and inside logistics centers, and we announced a big partnership with Amazon. They have the largest fleet of inside warehouse navigation systems. And so you're going to see a whole bunch of that kind of stuff, a whole bunch of applications like that, okay, grocery delivery vehicles and all kinds of things.

And then the second part is manipulation systems. Manipulation systems are making really great progress. And today's manipulation systems are all preprogrammed, just like the old computers that we talked about was everything was prerecorded. The current manipulation systems are prerecorded, which limits the market size to just the biggest car companies. And if you want manipulation systems to be useful for the mid- and medium-sized manufacturing companies, which in Germany, it's called Mittelstand. Here in the United States, they just call them supply chain partners. In Japan, there's a whole -- their version of Mittelstand.

But basically, the industrial supply chain are a couple of hundred million dollar companies. If you look at ASML supply chain, it's a whole bunch of Mittelstands, okay? And so a bunch of technology companies, each one of them is probably a couple of hundred million dollars. And none of it can be robotic because none of it is big enough. And so we need smart robots that reasoning systems. And so that capability is probably a couple of years away.

And then after that, physical AI will permeate into everything from telecommunications, for example. 6G is basically physical AI instead of using cameras that understands the physical world is using a different spectrum of electromagnetics, radio waves and -- but it's basically sensing the world. And so -- so we're going to -- and we have a partnership with Nokia. And so we built a platform that's based on NVIDIA's CUDA and AI, and it's called AI RAN.

And the system, I think, is going to be phenomenally successful. It's basically a distributed edge data center. All of this is, I think, probably about 5 years in the cooking. And you'll just see more and more and more of it. But in the meantime, NVIDIA is already successful in physical AI because before you deploy the model, you have to train the model. And so people know that we have -- Elon and I work together in the Tesla supercomputers, you call it Dojo, and that's got a whole bunch of GPUs inside. So that's for training these self-driving cars. And there's a whole bunch of examples like that.

Yes. I think we really got to wrap up there. Thanks so much, Jensen, for being with us. We appreciate it.

All right, guys. Thank you.

Good afternoon. My name is Tiffany, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to NVIDIA's second quarter earnings call. [Operator Instructions]. Toshiya Hari, you may begin your conference.

Thank you. Good afternoon, and welcome to NVIDIA's conference call for the second quarter of fiscal 2027. With me today from NVIDIA are Jensen Huang, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Colette Kress, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Our call is being webcast live on NVIDIA's Investor Relations website. The webcast will be available for replay until the conference call to discuss our financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2027. The content of today's call is NVIDIA's property. It can't be reproduced or transcribed without our prior written consent.

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During this call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures. You can find a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures in our CFO commentary, which is posted on our website. With that, let me turn the call over to Colette.

Thanks, Toshiya. We delivered another outstanding quarter with record revenue, operating income and EPS. Total revenue of $96 billion more than doubled year-over-year as growth accelerated for the fourth consecutive quarter. The surge in AI demand is driving a global infrastructure buildout, supported by an expanding and diverse set of growth opportunities, spanning hyperscalers, AI labs, AI natives, enterprises and sovereign customers. We expect to grow revenue by approximately 70% in fiscal 2028. This is a supply-constrained outlook. Q2 data center revenue increased 18% quarter-over-quarter to $89 billion with strong contributions from both segments hyperscale and ACIE, which includes our Neocloud, industrial and enterprise customers.

Hyperscale revenue of $49 billion grew 13% sequentially. The driven by sustained strength in Blackwell, reinforcing that more compute drives more revenue as new GPU capacity comes online, our hyperscale customers delivered strong financial results in the quarter with accelerating revenue growth and expanding margins. With cloud industry backlog now greater than $2 trillion, CapEx by the top 5 hyperscalers is expected to reach nearly $800 billion in 2026 and $1.3 trillion in 2027. Today, we are delighted to announce an expansion of our partnership with AWS, building on its already vast installed base of NVIDIA compute, AWS is deploying an additional 2 million GPUs starting this quarter through the second quarter of fiscal '29 along with Vera, CPUs, some integrated with Ruben, other standalone.

AWS will serve NVIDIA Nematofamily of open models on Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker. Amazon will also adopt our full physical AI stack, Omniverse, Cosmos, Isaac, and Jason to power its fleet of warehouse robots. AC I&E revenue of $40 billion increased 25% sequentially and 138% year-over-year. Growth was driven by Neo cloud capacity additions to meet the rising demand from enterprises, AI start-ups and sovereigns as well as hyperscalers purchasing capacity to supplement their own build-outs. Using NVIDIA DSX reference designs, our Neo cloud partners are bringing capacity online faster and at lower token cost. They are expected to exit the year with 8 gigawatts in total installed capacity, up from approximately 3 gigawatts at the end of 2025. Incredibly, we are seeing demand acceleration even at our scale.

Customers forecasts point to our growth, doubling next year. However, as I mentioned earlier, we expect to grow approximately 70% as we are supply constrained. NVIDIA compute is fully utilized across every cloud we serve the economic value it generates for hyperscale, Neo cloud and AI lab partners keeps rising. Besides building the best AI computing technologies and the most capable supply chain, NVIDIA has 3 unique capabilities that are engines powering our growth. First, NVIDIA's architecture runs every model, and we're growing share as closed and open model adoption grow. Post in open models alike, adoption is skyrocketing. NVIDIA runs the leading closed models, OpenAI, anthropic, Grok, Meta, Gemini and the leading open models, TML, Mistral, Quinn, Kimi, GLM, Deep Seek, MiniMax and Nematron.

We're great at small bottles and giant ones, large or video, auto, regressive or diffusion in the cloud or in the edge, NVIDIA is great at training, great at inference, grade at agentic workloads. One platform, fungible for every model and workload, durable for the entire life cycle of AI. That combination of performance, fungibility and durability is what makes NVIDIA the productive and financeable compute infrastructure. Our second unique capability is our full stack AI factory platform that is expanding our share of the data center town. Since Hopper, our revenue opportunity has grown from roughly $18 billion per gigawatt to $25 billion with Blackwell, to $40 billion with virirubin, which now spans VeraCPU, Ruben GPU, EnVyLink, InfiniBaner Ethernet and GrokLPU announced earlier this week.

Our ability to extreme code design across GPU, CPU, NVLink scale-up networking, scale-out networking, systems, algorithms and software enables us to deliver ex factor performance gain every generation. Veraruben exemplifies this, delivering 30x higher throughput per megawatt and 35x lower token costs relative to Grace Blackwell Ultra. We commenced production shipments of vera ruben earlier this month, having already received purchase orders from every major hyperscaler AI cloud and system OEM, we expect darirubin to mark the fastest product ramp in NVIDIA's history. Our networking business had another record quarter with revenue growing 18% on a sequential basis. Spectrum ex Ethernet, which grew 2.6x on a year-over-year basis is already helping us become the largest and fastest-growing network company in the world. Rising adoption of agentic AI is driving an acceleration in demand for data center CPUs. Our Grace CPU introduced in 2021 and has been a great success, with revenue on a trailing 12-month basis, exceeding $5 billion. Today, we are in full production of our next-generation Vero CPU.

As a stand-alone product, Vera expands our TAM even further. Vera completes a genic task, 1.8x faster on the spec benchmark and provides fit the bandwidth per watt than any other data center CPU. We expect Vera to be deployed by every major hyperscaler, NeoCloud, AI lab, and system OEM with shipments already underway to our lead partners, including OCI, SpaceX AI and starting this quarter, AWS. We continue to see demand for approximately $20 billion in total server CPUs. And based on our customer demand and improving supply outlook, our preliminary expectation is for CPU revenue to more than double in fiscal '28, positioning us as one of the world's leading server CPU suppliers.

Since the announcement of our Grok partnership last year, we've been working to unite NVIDIA's high throughput and rocks high interactivity architectures. At hot chips earlier this week, we announced that Grok 3 LPX, our first rack scale LPU system is in full production and already setting records demonstrating nearly 4x the number of tokens per second against the next best alternative on our artificial analysis benchmark. We expect to ship Grok 3 LPX in volume later this quarter to early adopters. Mabius will be the first. Today, we're not just selling the best chips, we're selling a full stack AI factory platform, offering superior economics for customers and capturing a bigger share of the data center TAM. Our third unique capability is the combination of our full stack AI factory and rich CUDA ecosystem, allowing us to extend AI into markets, a single-chip alone can never reach. Beyond the hyperscalers lies a massive market, anxious to adopt AI, customers with no interest in designing their own custom silicon, NVIDIA fully proven full stack platform is uniquely suited to help sovereigns, neo clouds and enterprises build their AI infrastructure, bring it to full operation, continuously optimize it through CUDA software and connected to offtake demand from our vast developer ecosystem.

Hyperscalers will remain a major growth driver, but non-hyperscaler growth, our AIC and E segment, spanning sovereign, regional neo clouds, enterprise edge and air gap data centers will represent roughly half of our data center business. Our AI native start-up ecosystem developed and running primarily on the NVIDIA compute platform is scaling at a rapid pace. Global VC funding in AI, roughly 70% of which is spent on compute exceeded $400 billion in the first half of 2026, surpassing the $265 billion raised in all of 2025. Nearly 20 companies, including Cursor owned by SpaceX Sigma and together AI now exceed $1 billion in annualized run rate revenue, up from 13 companies in Q4 of last year. With vertical enterprise software logging the fastest growth.

In enterprise, on a trailing 12-month basis, on-prem revenue in the automotive vertical reached $8 billion while financial services, manufacturing and health care combined contributed $7 billion in revenue. Hudson River Trading and Jane Street are leveraging NVIDIA's powered AI factories to accelerate quantitative trading. Samsung Electronics is using NVIDIA Koleto to achieve up to 20x greater performance in computational lithography, while Bristol-Myers Squid is investing in vera ruben-AI factory, a fast follow to the Roche and Lilly build-outs as drug R&D time lines compress from years to months. In sovereign AI, our business primarily through the regional neo clouds grew 35% sequentially and more than tripled year-over-year in Q2. We a country or region can allocate land and power directly to a regional cloud partner in ways it never would to a foreign hyperscaler.

We don't own a cloud ourselves, we are a neutral partner to every sovereign and Neo cloud. And because NVIDIA compute is productive, fungible, rentable and durable, regional cloud interest is surging around the world. We helped Care, Mevius and NScale build entire infrastructure businesses, and Neoclouds are merging everywhere, Firebird in armania. Pasaba technologies across Africa, GMI Cloud in Taiwan, Yoda, Anesa in India, Hermes in Australia, YTL AI cloud in Malaysia, pairing local land, power and operating expertise with our platform. Last month, we announced a partnership with Nora Japan's national AI company to build an NVIDIA DSX AI factory that will create open models to power AI agents, digital twins, robotics and physical AI applications. South Korea's LG and Hyundai Motor Group are partnering with NVIDIA to build and scale AI. And in Europe, a record new NVIDIA-powered AI supercomputers were unveiled to advance industry and scientific breakthroughs.

NeoClous are seeing strong demand pipelines for many diverse offtakers. -- rather than allocating their entire capacity to a single long-term offtake guarantee that lenders typically require to finance a data center independently, we have introduced a revenue-sharing structure. NVIDIA provides a take-or-pay commitment on a portion of the facility's capacity, a minimum revenue guarantee that gives lenders the confidence to underwrite the project, and in exchange, we share in a portion of the Neo Cloud's revenue earned above that floor. Independent capital still underwrites every deal on its own merits. We're not making loans. In this model, we get paid twice, once on the hardware sale and again, through the share of rental revenue, a highly reoccurring stream layered on top of a onetime equipment purchase.

Over time, this model can expand our addressable market and create reoccurring usage linked revenue stream alongside our core platform revenue. with the potential to drive billions in revenue over the medium to long term. Together, NVIDIA's 3 unique capabilities, a platform that runs every model, a full-stack AI factory platform, capturing more of the data center TAM and a CUDA ecosystem that extends AI into markets. No single chip could reach a loan reinforce 1 another and are the engines of our growth.

Let me update you on our progress with our Frontier AI labs. The Frontier AI labs have extraordinary demand for training and inference compute, but they are growing faster than what their balance sheets and credit profiles can support. They have rapidly growing customer demand we still lack the decades-long infrastructure contracts and investment-grade financing capacity needed to secure the AI factory infrastructure independently. In other words, their growth isn't limited by their technology or customer demand. It's limited by compute. For these companies, more compute means more and more intelligence, more users and more revenue, NVIDIA is needed to help power this flywheel. First, we've invested nearly $50 billion in the Frontier AI labs -- this was a meaningful commitment, but it represented a small fraction of our expected free cash flow over the same period. Further, to support the Frontier Labs infrastructure build-outs, we recently announced partnerships with 6 of the world's leading infrastructure capital providers, Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish financing platforms that will raise over $500 billion of third-party capital.

With these partnerships, building on our unique fungible and durable computing platform, the AI labs will be able to build and assess AI infrastructure funded by long-term institutional capital at relatively attractive rates. Last week, we announced that we secured land power shell capacity through our partnership with SoftBank Energy to exclusively host NVIDIA compute at their Portsmouth Campus. The initial deployment expected to support 4.25 gigawatts of AI factory capacity will be utilized by OpenAI. Each generation of NVIDIA AI factory systems deployed at ports pike could represent approximately 1.5 million NVIDIA GPUs. And over 20 years, the site could support multiple upgrade cycles. Here's the essential economic point, the LPS commitment secures a long-lived AI factory site, while the NVIDIA compute within the data center can be upgraded repeatedly. This project deepens our long-standing partnership with OpenAI.

Open AI has committed to substantially deployment of NVIDIA AI infrastructure through 2030. OpenAI's existing and planned commitments represent approximately 12 gigawatts of NVIDIA compute. For another frontier AI lab, we will provide selective credit enhancement for nearly 2 gigawatts of compute. This complements the substantial NVIDIA compute capacity they've secured independently without NVIDIA's credit support. We recognize the scale of this support and we know some will call this circular financing. We see it differently. We're going through a major computing platform ship, the creation of one of the most important technologies in human history and these are once in a generation companies. The technology leadership is proven and their customer traction and usage are skyrocketing. We expect them to become the largest technology companies in history. We believe these investments measured against the strength of their demand, the business they create for us, the ecosystem they build on NVIDIA's platform and the equity returns on our invested capital will be excellent and our risk is limited. The NVIDIA compute platform is fungible and durable and can be redeployed to support other customers.

For context, we expect demand from the AI labs for which we expect to leverage our balance sheet to contribute toward roughly 1/4 of our business next year. This remains compute, we ship will be consumed by investment-grade customers or those that are backed by 1. In Q2, we shipped less than 1% of our total data center revenue in Hopper 200 products to customers based in China in accordance with the U.S. government licenses. Current hopper shipments are dilutive to corporate gross margins. And given ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, there is no China data center compute revenue in our forward outlook.

Moving to the rest of the P&L. GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins were both 75%, largely unchanged from last quarter due to a similar product mix. GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses were up 10% and 11% sequentially, primarily due to high compute infrastructure costs and compensation and benefits costs. Our non-GAAP effective tax rate of 16% increased from a year ago, primarily due to higher revenue. On our balance sheet, inventory increased to $32 billion as we prepared for the vera ruben launch. Days of sales outstanding increased to 60 days, reflecting extended payment terms for large purchases by certain investment-grade customers to be shipped over multiple quarters. In Q2, we returned a record $26 billion to shareholders, $20 billion through share repurchases and $6 billion through our quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share. Relative to our plan to return 50% or more of free cash flow, we returned 60% of on a year-to-date basis. And going forward, we intend to increase and return excess free cash flow net of strategic uses.

Let me turn to the outlook for the third quarter. Total revenue is expected to be $108 billion, plus and minus 2%. We expect sequential growth to be driven primarily by ACI and E with data center, while growth in hypersalis expected to reaccelerate in Q4 and into fiscal year '28, and as supply of verarubin grows over time. We see verarubin accounting for about 20% of data center revenue in Q3. Looking ahead, our preliminary expectation is for fiscal year 2018 revenue to grow approximately 70% year-over-year, although we will work to close the supply-demand gap we expect supply to remain a bottleneck, at least through the end of fiscal year '28.

Many of you have expressed concerns regarding our gross margins as component costs have risen significantly. As you are already aware, we are experiencing extreme pricing conditions in memory. The magnitude of the price increase has exceeded our prior expectations and are headed even higher into next year. As a result, we are resetting expectations today. For Q3, we expect GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins to be 74% plus or minus 50 basis points. We expect margins to bottom in Q4 in the 71% to 72% range before settling at 72% to 73% in fiscal year '28, as executed price increases take effect in Q1. We want to be direct about this rather than let it linger as an open question. Memory scarcity today is being driven in large part by the AI build-out itself and unlike a component that simply raises our cost with no offset benefit, tighter memory supply is a symptom of the same demand surge that's driving our own growth.

We have a long-standing deep relationships with all 3 major memory suppliers and we're working closely with them to further increase the capacity our road map requires. GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $9.2 billion and $9.0 billion, respectively. For the full year, we now expect OpEx to grow in the low 50s driven by a broadening of our product portfolio and further increase in the usage of AI tools, which is already and will continue to enhance engineering productivity. For full year fiscal year '27, we continue to expect GAAP and non-GAAP taxes to be between 16% and 18%, excluding any discrete items and material changes to our tax environment. With that, we will now transition to Q&A. Operator, please poll for questions.

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Joseph Moore with Morgan Stanley.

Great. I wonder if you could give us color on the 70%. What gives you the confidence to guide a full year out? You haven't been doing that? And then what's the gap between that amount of growth in the demand growth. What is the kind of key constraint that separates those numbers? And could you close those gaps over time? .

Yes. Thanks, Joe. As you probably are aware, AI has become useful. And the AI agents that are being adopted everywhere use an enormous amount of compute. First of all, the large language models are larger than ever because they're smarter than ever. And these agents go through reasoning and planning multiple turns of tool use. The amount of compute necessary for an agent versus a human using it is probably 15 to 100 times depending on the type of problem you're trying to solve. And so the amount of compute necessary is just extraordinary. That's a factor that almost everybody sees. The part that people don't see about our growth because we're practically singular because of the nature of how we deliver products. I mean we're the only company in the world that creates and builds offers an entire AI factory platform, a full stack system.

And customers can still mix and match. However, most companies just don't have the skills to do that or desire to do that. And so there's an entire part of the market that we experienced growth -- they're sovereign AI, the original AIs, their neo clouds, their AI start-ups their enterprises, where we're seeing -- which represents about half of our business that's growing 100% a year. That part of the world's computing is likely to be larger over time than even what we're currently experiencing in the cloud. And so I think the demand that we see is driven by all of those factors. It is also the case that you can no longer procure technology per se and stand up this infrastructure. You've got to go secure the land power and Shell, which oftentimes is a couple 2, 3 years out, all of the rest of the supply chain necessary to align the construction, the power, the cooling, all of the labor that's necessary. And AI infrastructure is creating so many jobs all over the United States and all around the world.

It just takes a lot more planning. And so we're involved in securing infrastructure now further down the pipeline. Just as a long time ago, people asked me why is it that we're working with memory suppliers when we're a chip company. And today, people understand it's really quite genius that we were working on our supply chain so far upstream. We work with power generator companies. We downstream. We worked with land power and shell companies all around the world. And that helps prepare all of this computing that's going to be built that will ultimately deploy for our ecosystem and our customers -- and so we just have a lot greater visibility now, upstream and downstream. It is the case that we've never forecasted or never guided to a year in advance. And even though our demand is much greater than 70%, our supply allows us to confidently deliver 70%. And we're going to continue to work with our supply chain to increase on that. But what we wanted to do is to be consistent with everybody from our customers, our shareholders, our supply chain, everybody sees the same view. And the reason why that's important is because everybody is putting a lot of resources at play. And so we wanted to make sure that everybody has the same set of information. And we've got a huge year coming up next year. and it's going to be pretty extraordinary.

Your next question comes from the line of CJ Muse with Cantor Fitzgerald.

There's tremendous investor focus on your inference market share. Can you speak to the evolving workloads you're seeing with the genetic AI and how you see your share evolving here over time, particularly when you reflect on the growing value of the TAM you're seeing with each new full stack generation your expectation for greater growth from ACI and then also including Grok 3 LPX. I would love to hear your thoughts.

Yes. Thanks, CJ. The AI life cycle is getting way more complex than it used to be. And it's playing into NVIDIA's architecture much more greatly than it used to be in. And so you could kind of see it as 4 phases. There's the first phase, which is preparing all of the data that you need. Some of it is synthetic, -- some of it is real. Some of it is human labeled and generated, pretrain the models. And then there's post training, the third phase and then there's the Agentic inference and agentic inference is extremely complicated. And so every 1 of those phases are complicated. The thing that's really great about the NVIDIA architecture, and we created this with MDLink72 and was a big surprise on the world when we first created the first -- the world's first rack-scale architecture. It was hardly easy -- and it was very challenging building the first generation. We're now in our third generation of Mbl72-rack-scale systems.

We had to reinvent the entire supply chain, reinvent systems, reinvent the technology, redistribute our software, refactor our software, everything every aspect of was hard. But what it allowed us to do was to create 1 fungible system that allows us to transition from data creation, data preparation, the pretraining the post training to a genic inference. The benefits to customers is incredible. And the reason for that is because -- you've just spent and we just mentioned, each gigawatt of technology and NVIDIA's revenue exposure in the hopper time frame with Hopper plus InfiniBand and now verarubin and CPU and 3 types of different networking because it takes that many types of networking to address the entire world's data center not to mention the scale in security networking and the scale across multicampus networking. So you could argue 5 different types of networking systems and then, of course, Go. And all of that increased our revenue contribution or revenue opportunity per gigawatt to $40 billion.

So each gigawatt of data center increased from, say, in about 5 years ago to now $60 billion today. Of course, the productivity is tremendous. The performance is incredible in comparison but you're talking about a $60 billion investment. And to the extent that you could use it across multiple phases of the AI life cycle, run every single type of model you can imagine running on it, whether it's diffusion or auto aggressive or state space or some hybrid version of that, every version of attention mechanism, you can think of small or large models, like the investment that you make will be preserved and useful and productive for a lot longer time. And so I think our advantage in this new world is really quite extraordinary. And it could explain why it is that our growth is actually accelerating. It was already large, but now it's accelerating.

Let's see, you asked about Grok. We're super excited about Grok 3. We achieved record token interactivity rate, extremely low latency performance generation. The team is doing fantastically. We spent the last several months using the NVLink architecture, which will be the core and it will be the core engine. And then for services that would like to have super high interactivity super high-speed token generation done, the throughput is going to be a lot lower. The cost per token will be higher, but you could associate it with high ASP services. And so for those companies, you could bolt on 1 of our rock accelerators. I'm super excited about that. But the vast majority of the world's data centers will just be Verirubiand NVLink 72.

Your next question comes from the line of Stacy Rasgon with Bernstein Research.

So the 70% growth in fiscal '28, which I guess is sort of calendar '27. So that's something like, I don't know, a $200 billion uptick versus the prior outlook, if I back it out, the prior outlook was $1 trillion over the 3 years. So this is probably $200 million more. I was just wondering if you could talk us through the contributors -- does that increase across the different products, overanCPUs and Groenevething else? And also you talked about your price increase that takes effect in Q1. So I assume some of this is pricing. And I guess I'm also curious -- maybe I'm squeezing too many questions in here, but I'm also curious just it's a constrained number. What would it be if it wasn't constrained. .

The unconstrained to be a lot higher. It's -- we grew 100% year-over-year this year. The unconstrained is significant. And so we're just going to have to work hard to get more capacity. And we have a large supply chain. We have a really gigantic supply chain. And so we have incredible partners and we've secured a lot of supply, but we just need a lot more. To break it down, the way to think about that is most people see just hyperscalers. And that's half of the picture. The other half of the picture is what we call AC and that's all the enterprise, the neo clouds, the sovereign, that part of the world is invisible to everybody. And the reason for that is because they don't buy custom chips, they don't buy chips 1 at a time.

They really need an entire factory platform built for them. And so that's a space that we add just a tremendous amount of value. Now of course, back in this hyperscale space, that's growing incredibly too, right? You know that they now have backlogs of $2 trillion. You know that when they stand up NVIDIA compute, when that happens, the revenues go up, their earnings contribution go up. Compute is profitable, very profitable today. and compute directly translates into increased revenues. And so there's just a race to want to bring more NVIDIA compute online, both at the hyperscalers -- but what you don't see is just really tremendous opportunities outside the hyperscalers. But the other part of it is -- it's the reason why we mapped it out for you. In the case of hopper, we were at about $18 billion per gigawatt for Grace Black well, we're about $25 billion per gigawatt. And for vararubin, it's about $40 billion per gigawatt. And the productivity is x factors increase in each generation. And so customers want to race to the next generation as fast as they can.

Meanwhile, because NVIDIA's compute is so productive. The tokens that are generating the GPU hours they're renting out is insanely profitable, as you know. Their margins are fantastic. And so -- so all of that is just simultaneously happening. I think the big picture is that we're going through this platform shift, and it affects every computer company -- and every industry in the world uses computers. So therefore, every industry is affected. Every company is affected. And this new way of doing computing is intelligent. It's not based on retrieval of files, but it's now generative, generating intelligence. And that requires compute, but the results you get is phenomenal. The results you get is tremendously better. And so we're just seeing that across the world. Everybody wants to be part of the AI revolution. Everybody will have to be part of this computing shift, and everybody has to build infrastructure.

Your next question comes from the line of Vivek Arya with Bank of America Securities.

And thanks for providing all the transparency and all the commitments and guarantees that you have for a number of years. when I just add up everything that's in the CFO commentary, I get to a number of about $500 billion or so, obviously, over the next several years. So I had a few questions related to that. First is, is that the takeaway that the sum of all your ecosystem investments over the next several years is in that ballpark? Or are there other equity or other investments that could still be ahead? That's one. Secondly, if there is a specific cash part of that, that we should think about in fiscal '28. And then Justin, a lot of these investments are designed to help the Frontier labs, especially open AI and Anthropic, but both of them are designing their own custom chips. In fact, opening just in the last few days spoke about Alpine and their claims about being better than Black well and so forth. So how are you balancing this dynamic where you want to invest a lot of the ecosystem, but part of that ecosystem wants to develop competitive solutions?

Well, we're building something very different. Whereas many of these XPUs are inference specific chips for 1 cloud or 1 service. NVIDIA is a platform, an entire AI factory platform that spans the entire AI life cycle that you can use in any cloud, it's in every cloud. You can run anywhere. -- will help you set it up anywhere. And so we built something very different. These -- all of the AI services at some point are going to want to go around the world. And those data centers won't necessarily be just built by them. And also, I fully expect -- and so they're going to run and I think they're going to run on NVIDIA all around the world. And of course, I think our technology, I have 100% confidence that our technology will continue to be extraordinary for them and that the economics of using our technology, whether it's from data processing to training to post training to agentic processing, our technology is going to be extraordinary for them. They're going to use it. And so I'm very confident that they're going to be customers and partners of ours for a very long time. .

Now having said that, taking a step backwards, investing in these 2 companies or there are several AI labs that we've invested in, investing in these companies are once-in-a-generation opportunity. I think the only regret that I have is that I didn't invest more and sooner. And both of the -- 2 of the companies will likely go public soon, and others will follow. And these will be some of the most consequential technology companies in history. And so I'm delighted to be their friend. I'm delighted to partner with them. I'm delighted that they're building an ecosystem on top of the NVIDIA architecture. I'm delighted that they're counting on us to scale up -- and I have 100% confidence that through quite a long period of time, they're going to be utilizing NVIDIA compute for a lot of their computing. And so I feel great about it.

So Vivek, let me add a little bit more regarding the commitments and the portion within those commitments, which is our supply commitments. This is essential. This is essential for the raising of virirubin today as well as all next year. You can see that those commitments, the biggest parts of them are in the first 3 years, and we will use that to build the products that we need. This also gives us the confidence in terms of our growth in revenue given how much we have already aligned and commitment in terms of our supply as well as capacity that we would need. .

Your next question comes from the line of Timothy Arcuri with UBS.

Jensen, I wanted to ask about open source. There's a lot of talk about that these models could gain share for workload in the U.S. You're obviously well positioned with Nemotron. But on the other hand, A lot of the end demand is being driven by these big frontier model companies. So there's a lot of investors that equate open models as being negative for the growth of those companies. So how do you sort of put and take that? Do you see the rise of open models as being good for NVIDIA or ultimately negative? .

The world will need both closed models and open models. And both closed models and open models are skyrocketing in use. Near most, I would say, nearly all open models run on NVIDIA. And the reason for that is because NVIDIA's footprint around the world is the highest and our architecture is the most fungible. It's everywhere. It's in PCs and edge devices like DGX Spark, which is doing great. all the way to robots and workstations and your on-prem data centers. Open models are doing incredibly well. Closed models, we know are doing incredibly well. The Frontier labs, the scale their sales are skyrocketing, their margins are fantastic. They're generating profitable tokens. They are only limited by the amount of compute. That is equally true for open models. And our position in open models is very good because the CUDA ecosystem is literally everywhere.

The open models are also foundational to just about every AI start-up and every enterprise company around the world is vital to them. And the reason for that is because you should rent intelligence strong intelligence, smart intelligence wherever you can, which is the reason why we rented, and I encourage my employees to use the cloud services as much as they can. But every major company and every -- surely, every country and every startup needs to build their domain specific, their proprietary AI, their proprietary alpha. And the open models reaching frontier levels has made it possible, has enabled them to all do that. One of the areas where frontier models is vital is cybersecurity. You see the number of cybersecurity companies that are enabled by frontier models so that they could have distributed massively distributed, continuously running autonomous cybersecurity systems to defend.

Those companies are emerging. There are some amazing companies. They couldn't do it without open models. And so open models is both incredibly successful and has finally reached the frontier, but it's also vital to the American economy. It's vital to the world economy. It's vital to companies to build their own proprietary AI. You can't do without 1 or the other. Both are going to be extraordinarily successful. And lastly, as you know, our market footprint of all AI models, we're the only -- I think we're the only platform -- we're fairly certain we're the only platform that runs every frontier model. And whether it's closed or open. Most of them were built on NVIDIA and so they run great on NVIDIA. And so we're delighted by any model succeeding so long has models succeed. I'm very happy. And both closed in open ones are going to succeed and they're both simultaneously driving our sales.

Your next question comes from the line of Ben Reitzes with Melius Research.

I wanted to ask you a question, Jensen, about demand in a different way. You talked about demand growing 100% next year, and I wanted to kind of get a sense for a couple of things driving that and even beyond that. And there's 2 concepts here. There's recursive self-improvement, which apparently at Anthropic and OpenAI is going very well with AI that improves itself. And even OpenAI said they could hit AGI by the end of this year. And with the developments in RSI as well as AGI, what happens to industry demand? Does it inflect further? And what does it mean for NVIDIA when those things take place? And how are you looking at that as a demand catalyst.

I appreciate that. It's going to inflect further. Today, the vast majority of AI is prompted by people. I believe that this last month, it has crossed. Most AI are now agentic, but in the future, every company will have a whole bunch of agents. We have 40,000 employees roughly. In the future, we'll have 400,000 agents, 4 million agents. And those agents are running continuously. They're running in the background. If you have anybody who builds -- if you know anybody who builds edge personal AI agents and they run it on their like a DGX Spark -- and I know a lot of people who run it on DGX stations, this incredible workstation that we've built, and you can buy it from Dell and they're incredible and these AI agents running on a DGX station runs 24/7 because you've got stuff for them to do for it to do all the time. .

And so the -- when the world goes to agent, fully agentic systems, you're going to have agents running all the time, working with other agents running all the time. And those will be working in the background, improving our company, improving your lives. In a lot of ways, we're kind of recursive at this point. And you could argue it's course screened. But every time you run through an agent, it reflects on how it could do a better job next time and it updates the skill file. And so the skills document, the markdown is updated at the end of every single 1 of them. And so next time you run it, it's going to get better. It's a kind of a loosely coarse grain self-improvement. And so you see that all always. And so in a lot of ways, and for many tasks, we could say that we've already achieved AGI.

I think all of those milestones and all those -- they're kind of senseless at this point. I think the most important thing that matters for the industry is that, one, AI is now doing productive and useful work; two, AI is generating profitable tokens. And three, if we had more compute, we could generate more profitable tokens, which results in more profit for all of the services. This is the exact phase where we're at, which is the reason why everybody is leaning in.

Your next question comes from the line of Jim Schneider with Goldman Sachs.

If you think about the 100% growth you talked about in terms of the plus unconstrained demand growth you're expecting the 70% you expect to fulfill terms of supply, can you maybe talk about some of the -- or rank order some of the most acute constraints, whether that be things like data center power and shell availability, DRAM wafer foundry availability, et cetera. If you could maybe help us understand which are the biggest among those, that would be very helpful.

There's something funny I could say, but I'm going to just not. The -- last year, one of the funnest things to do is just to go figure out where I go for dinner and who I have dinner with and their stock price doubles the next day. I think the answer is our entire supply chain is challenged. And it's everybody is really running flat out. And more capacity is coming online all the time, which is 1 of the advantages of what's going to happen this year. It's not going to come online in just an instance in time, but it's going to come online every day. Yields are going to get improved. We're going to be doing yield improvement. We're going to work hard on working with every 1 of our suppliers. And so we're just -- we have a -- it's not even next year yet. And so we've got lots and lots of time and work hard every day. And so at this moment, we have supply for 70%. We have more supply than 70%, but about 70%.

Our demand is much higher than that. And we've got to go work hard or we're going to be disappointing customers. And we like not to disappoint our customers, and we like to work hard for them and -- so I've got -- I'm going to need the help of the entire supply chain to help me out here. But they all know that. What I'm telling you about our needs for next year is exactly consistent with what I've told them. Everybody is on the exact same sound sheet. And I'm trying to be as transparent as we can because we're talking about big numbers.

Your final question comes from the line of Aaron Rakers with Wells Fargo.

I want to go back to the gigawatts, the 25 to 40. And maybe trying to understand like, I think, Jensen, you said at some recent conferences that that's going to further scale. So as we think about the path even beyond virarubin, we think about virarubin Ultra and so on and so forth, should we really conceptualize like $40 billion to $60 billion to $80 billion. And then I guess, underneath of that question is, how do we kind of think about your ability to scale the capacity deployments -- is it a linear function? Or is there something that kind of unlocks your ability to buy more demand as we look through fiscal '27 -- '28, sorry.

Yes, great question, great question. And very simple. -- is our goal to put as much compute on the plot of land is our goal to put more compute into 1 gigawatt or less. And so obviously, we would like the speed of light answer, the perfect answer is actually Infinity per gigawatt. And so if we could literally get $1 trillion of compute into 1 gigawatt and 1 piece of land power shelf, it would be a fantastic outcome. And so the answer is directionally in that direction. We started in the world of general purpose computing during Moore's Law. We were probably pick your favorite number, but I'm going to go with something like $5 billion, $3 billion per gigawatt of compute with general-purpose computing. And then eventually, with hopper, it was 18. Now Grace Black Walls 25. Next, verirubin is 40. And after that, it's going to be higher. And that's excellent. That's fantastic for the industry. It's fantastic for customers so long as the productivity of it continues to grow, the durability and the fungibility continues to grow. Then people are happy to invest in assets that generate revenues, generates profits and helps them recoup their returns so incredibly fast.

I mean, I heard the other day, that return on investment capital is now less than a year. And we're talking about $50 billion data centers. And so that tells you something about the productivity of NVIDIA's technology and the rentability of it. I want to thank all of you for joining us today.

There are no further questions at this time. Toshiya, I'll turn the call back over to you.

Thank you. Before we close, please note that Jensen will be participating in a keynote fireside chat at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference in San Francisco on September 10 and he'll also be giving a keynote at GTC Berlin on October 21. Our earnings call to discuss the results of our third quarter of fiscal 2027 is scheduled for November 17. And thank you for joining us today. Operator, please close the call. .

This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.

Good morning. Welcome to day 3 of The Bank of America Global Technology Conference. I'm Vivek Arya, I cover semiconductor, semi cap equipment. And I'm really delighted and honored and it's a real treat to have Colette Kress, Executive Vice President and CFO of NVIDIA, to join us for the keynote session this morning, fresh off a number of announcements from GTC Taipei?

So perhaps, Colette, if you could start with maybe giving us right, some sense of what NVIDIA announced, right? How it kind of fits your strategic direction, and then we can go into a few other questions. But thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having me. I'm going to give you 1 quick statement at the very beginning here. As a reminder, this discussion may contain forward-looking statements, and investors are advised to read our reports filed with the SEC for information related to our risks and uncertainties facing our business.

Yes, GTC Taipei was a really, really great event. We do enjoy going to Taiwan, meeting with such an important part of our suppliers and helping our suppliers and that full ecosystem, really understand the progress we're making and speaking to them directly on that. So there were great announcements that we did make.

One of the top announcements is let's not forget Vera Rubin and is on its way and definitely is in full production. As we had discussed part of our earnings we indicated that, yes, it is planned for the second half. But more importantly, we talked about it, it is coming soon. It's ready for Q3.

So Q3, we're looking forward to standing up Vera Rubin. As you can imagine, we're already in full production in order to make that plan within Q3. But that was one of the very first pieces of it. The other piece is some of the excitement that folks have talked about, which is referred to as Vera CPU. Vera CPU is a great opportunity for us to both continue to expand with an important area of agentic solutions. When you think about agentic solutions, that CPU is going to be an essential part, the director of directing that Agentic work together. And we have the ability, again, to do an extreme co-design with what we enabled with a CPU.

That extreme codesign is different than many other types of CPUs that are out there. It is on our own cores. It also has a tremendous improvement in terms of productivity, but also in terms of just its sheer performance is about a 2x versus any of the other x86 CPUs. We've added this to our portfolio, not only within our full systems that we have for Vera Rubin or even what we have with our existing Blackwell, but this is also an opportunity to sell stand-alone, and we do believe that will be a big opportunity for us.

This is also a time to talk about what we can do in terms of the PC. We've been working very feverishly with many different providers to help us on that, but this is putting together RTX Spark into the market. This is a great opportunity for AI types of PCs and very, very key in focusing those that will be doing agentic type of work as well and using that PC with the performance is built together with MediaTek as well as our GPU and that's a great opportunity for us.

Lastly, this was a discussion to talk about really the diversification of both what we are building, but also the different types of customers and users that we see worldwide.

We're in a unique position versus any other type of company. And you'll hear more of that, I think, in our discussion, when we talk about not only just the hyperscalers, but a very important group of AI clouds and what they have built in terms of the market. We have so many different folks that we need to help with, that will be the enterprises, that will be the industries, that will be sovereigns, and we have that complete diversification and everything that we're selling. So those were some of the key highlights that we had.

Excellent. So maybe let me pick up, Colette, on at point because I think one of the very important disclosures you made as of the last earnings call, was giving us this transparency, right, between hyperscalers. And I was struck by 2 things. One is that both businesses, both your sales to kind of the large public hyperscalers and this other business to kind of the neocloud sovereign, right, on-premise, they're about the same size, but the hyperscaler business is growing faster. Like I would have thought that the other business would be smaller and growing faster, but it's the same size and growing slower. So if you could just walk us through what is the right way to interpret that disclosure?

Okay. So let's step back and talk about our disclosure we've had. We've been providing, of course, the data center numbers that we've had. One of our focus was to provide you an understanding of compute and networking. What was interesting is we're going on our now third generation of an extreme co-designed, full data center scale system. We're taking that and breaking that down to show you compute networking.

But if you think about it, all of those full systems are always going to incorporate both our compute and networking together. And our attach rate of what we are seeing in terms of the networking is an enormous piece of that as well. We're probably more than 90% attach rate in terms of what we're doing on networking. So now let's step back. What did we want to show you with a new way to think through what we're doing.

You get asked all the time in terms of what percent of our revenue was the hyperscalers. And that was, we had indicated for many years, many quarters, indicating that it's approximately 50%, plus or minus any single 1 quarter in terms of what we see. Now we are growing underneath that. So when you're saying it's 50%, that full growth coming from hyperscalers there. They're a very important group in terms of what they have done in terms of standing up clouds. But what's interesting is the other 50% and this is what we brought attention to, which is unique to NVIDIA in terms of our AI focus clouds, okay?

What we're looking at in terms of this group, in terms of the ACIE is what we are calling it, is a focus in terms of these types of AI clouds. These AI clouds are newly standing up, not a general-purpose cloud that has been there, but focusing on either AI factories, but most importantly, focused on our reference architecture because they need to know that full stack in order to put that into space.

So what they've done is a fast-moving capability to serve enterprises, to serve the industries and serve many of the different countries and regions that we see. We have AI clouds, definitely here in terms of the United States, you see a building already in terms of Europe, and now also big areas in terms of Southeast Asia as well. These are important areas to serve this market. Folks are not going to move back into their own enterprises data centers to build this. They need an AI cloud builder. This is where the token generations and pieces will be.

So interestingly, that's the other 50% and such a fast growing, as Jensen actually communicated, likely the fastest-growing piece, both their speed and the need to serve such a big market, you've got that ability now with this group. So we'll continue to be providing you that information broken out in that manner. There's a lot of interesting things happening in that.

Got it. And what I also found interesting is, despite this kind of daily debate, discussion noise about how much ASICs might be impacting your business, your business in hyperscalers, if I have my numbers right, was up like I think 115%, right? So it was definitely at a very strong pace. Are you well represented at all hyperscalers? Is there some concentration at certain ones, where people have custom chips? So how is how are hyperscalers kind of making this determination between where should they deploy their ASICs, where should they deploy NVIDIA GPUs?

Yes, very good question to talk about the word diversity. Because if you listen to each of the different groups, they're communicating the diversity, but let's step back and say, the king of diversity is probably NVIDIA and everything that we have done, because each and every cloud that is there, whether that be a hyperscaler cloud and/or an AI cloud, we are also being a part of them.

Also, when you think about the AI model makers, when you think about the foundation models, they are also 100% on our platform as well. So we have the diversity of both what the types of models there are. We have the types of clouds that it are. Meeting that together, we commend to be the biggest drawer of the diversity going together.

The cloud operators, they have continued to use us not only for today, tomorrow, but in the future because what they are doing is building a significant amount of understanding of how we have designed at an extreme codesign. Most of them are actually continuing to sell what we have in the cloud for them, whether that be our Hopper architecture, whether that be our Blackwell architecture and our future of Vera Rubin. What that means it's sustainable to stand up, and we continue to watch it grow and grow in this area that they will be able to serve so many of the different markets because of what we have built in a full ability for them to not only do end-to-end types of solutions, but we can be ready for what we did at the very beginning of ChatGPT to what we are seeing now in terms of agentic. And that diversity of all of our different customers is very key. Nothing that any other type of builder really has because we are supported and very helpful for them.

Got it. The next topic I wanted to touch on, Colette, was that there is this perception that as the market is moving from training to inference that NVIDIA dominated the training phase, that inference is going to be a lot more fragmented, although when I look at these kind of growth rates, it tells me you're participating well in it.

So how do you kind of frame the discussion that is it a fair pushback to say that inference, right, like I saw this one headline, which said, "Oh, the center of gravity is moving from the GPU to the CPU. Right?" So are you starting to notice a different kind of competition as the market moves towards -- like what percentage of your business today is in inference versus training as an example?

Okay. So let's step back on the 2 pieces here, basically thinking about there's a training part of it and there's an inferencing part of it. The inferencing part is extremely important for many of these model makers or any of these new companies starting. Why? Because once you're moving to inferencing, now you've got revenue. As you've seen the growth right now in agentic types of solution, it is -- the only way to describe it is the growth is vertical. The percent is not the most important thing. It just -- it is vertically going up in terms of that. Once you reach a point that you are now at revenue, the most important next thing that you want to think about is how do I make sure I can get a profit. And how can I make sure that I am using the best-of-breed in order to serve that.

Therefore, for those tokens, I want as many tokens as possible in the shortest amount of period of time, and I want the most efficient use of that type of compute. And that's where we come in. Because when you think about our systems, they've all been designed, thinking about these models, thinking about the full software stack that is also necessary for it, but being the most productive as well as the most lowest cost.

So this inferencing is not any easier. It's actually harder if it is just a static ASIC because we have been continuing to design over and over again. We still look at this as helping them focus on what type of use they want to use for the inferencing because it's not that simple that it's one piece as well. As you're working right now that says low latency as we go forward, there is a piece of agentic that says, I'm going to go back to the director of the CPU and ask that CPU to assist in this piece of it. But again, that hard work is still going to be necessary on our full end-to-end systems and with that important part of the GPU as well.

So what percentage is of our inferencing? Almost every one of our systems, both is using for training, but is also easy to move over to also do inferencing. With Grace Blackwell, it was the first time that we had also seen inferencing first for some of the systems that are built. Most of those AI model makers that you see right now and the models that they've put out there, Grace Blackwell is very, very key for much of the inferencing that is happening.

Got it. One other thing that I've noticed is over the last few years, we saw a lot of deployments, and I think it was harder for investors to kind of connect the dots to ROI and monetization. But this year, we have actually seen much better -- Is that a fair representation of what's going on? What are you hearing from customers? Are they noticing real ROI now, right? And what has kind of created this switch?

That's correct. The ROI has absolutely represented a significant amount with the cloud providers. The clouds were already making a great return as they continue to sell on the cloud. Now when you are also supporting those foundational models and what their work is doing in agentic, you are seeing not only enterprises focus, but you have the entrance of consumers as well.

Folks working on agentic types of work even at a personal level is also very key that is enabling the revenue, which is therefore, enabling more and more profit that allows them again to serve more. Most of them right now are in a position that says the compute is tight. There is still a shortage of supply of compute stood up that they want more and more that they are trying to get, and we're working with so many of them to help them as this agentic plan that we knew would be a great part of the next stage is actually almost a greatness that is causing, again, more and more compute needs, and we're going to work very hard to serve many of that.

Got it. We have seen just insatiable demand, right, from these public LLM companies, if I can call them that. Now the skeptic will say that they are trying to get their hands on compute wherever they can find. Does it not mean that hardware to some extent is being commoditized because of that? Because if they don't care whether they're using a 5-year-old GPU or the latest generation GPU, they're just trying to get compute whatever. So does that speak to commoditization? Or does it -- that just says that there is just a...

It's actually the opposite. It's actually given that full strength of agentic, it is forcing them to say, I've got to find the best-of-breed to do that. I agree that they're working on many different solutions to try and put that together, but you really have to look at where would the lion's share of that come from. We tend to continue right now growing our capabilities, growing our ability with more and more supply, and we are serving a vast majority of what is needed right now in this agentic role.

And I think that's going to continue. The perception that, hey, any chip will work, we're not a chip. It does take a full end-to-end data system to do that because you really have to think about the work that needs to be done in agentic starts at the onset of the information landing in that data center all the way through to the end. No simple one chip would be able to solve that. We think about all the 7 different chips that we'll even have with Vera Rubin fully designed for these types of solutions that we can answer all different types of questions all within one full system. And that's why we are continuing to be looked at.

We have certainly engaged with a lot of different companies matchmaking with them, where how can we help them both obtain the land, power, shell, how do we help them in terms of standing up the compute as fast as possible for what they need to do.

Got it. Given you mentioned land, power, shell; those are very, very well, I think, recognized constraints. Do you think they are constraints to a point where your existing customers might say, "You know what, it might make more sense to just upgrade my existing GPU infrastructure." Like has that upgrade been a factor so far? And when does it start becoming a factor?

Yes. It's an interesting debate that says you have data centers that may have already incorporated the Hopper architecture. What is interesting right now is the Hopper architecture in the cloud is actually earning more money than the very first day that they had it because that has been something that has continued to improve, whether it be Hopper, whether it be Blackwell, and you're going to see the same thing with Vera Rubin.

We continue to improve it with software to align with what currently is happening in the market to provide that with inside those systems. So that is actually helpful for them. A, the depreciable life may be a certain amount of time. The useful life is very long. If you think about it, why they want to keep it up and running, the time down to then build another data center versus this is actually quite useful for us is much easier for them right now.

So particularly in this time, the brand-new data centers are also important because you want your best on that. If you spent hours, years trying to find the exact land, power, shell given that it can be a very tight area right now to find, you're going to want the best. You're not going to sit there and say, I'm going to use something and give it a try. They know that NVIDIA's architecture has continued to ramp for this, and that's why many of them are on that plan for all of these different data centers.

Got it. So right now, to your point, the focus is obviously greenfield, it's a lot of the newer products and then existing, it's try and get as much, right? So upgrade is not yet a factor. But do you think there is a point at which that trade-off makes more sense that you can generate so many more tokens, right, and generate so much more revenue that, that offsets whatever depreciation benefits you could get from an older generation product?

At some point, it will get to be there. But it's an interesting time right now given the tightness. Those new data centers that are being built are absolutely built with the most sustainability, but also thinking about the efficiency of power and most of them are liquid cooled. When you're looking back in terms of a Hopper, you'd have to change that data center. It will happen. They will move that. But right now, moving ahead, getting ready for Vera Rubin is what the key thing they're doing.

And I'm glad you mentioned software because I find that sometimes that is sort of underappreciated about the full stack aspect of the platform, right? And the reason one can extract a lot more value even from existing hardware, right, is because of that constant innovation in software. So maybe talk to us about what is the role of software? What is the role of having all these domain optimized libraries and developers because sometimes I find that people just kind of treat it with a throwaway line of, oh, the CUDA moat is broken. And I imagine it's a lot more than just one operating system moat.

If you discuss with any of the foundation model makers or any of those creating these types of solutions, they are all focused, yes, as the underlying CUDA, but those key things is the domains and the libraries of software that we have. With you think through any type of AI cloud that is standing up. One, they're working on, can I design a data center? Can I stand this up? They need a full end-to-end architecture. They don't have thousands and thousands of software engineers that for over the last 20, 25 years, have designed software that is both backwards compatible and forwards compatible as much as they are leveraging us and CUDA.

So our work in terms of those libraries for each of the industries, each of the enterprises is going to be fundamental, particularly to the AI clouds and the work there. They can get a full stack. They don't have to rethink, redesign it. But it's more important to that, even within the cloud and you have the foundational models in the cloud, they too are also very keen on to that stack of software that we are working together with them to continue to enhance. We have our own models with inside NVIDIA. Those models are leveraging our software and building upon our software because we do also understand how models are working.

Absolutely. And none of that is something that ASICs can do?

Absolutely not. It doesn't have the ability. It's a fixed. It was determined at the point that they went and designed it, the time that they went to go tape it out, it's done. It doesn't have the ability to change over that. But we have that because we have a full platform to revise any part of that from here and going in the future.

Got it. I wanted to touch on 2 more topics in the last few minutes. One is on constraints and then the CPU side. So on the constraint side, given the strong growth that you're seeing, what are you doing to -- are there constraints? Like what is the constraint? How are you dealing with it? And can the fact that you have prepared for it, is that a competitive moat by itself also in this industry?

So it's been interesting to watch as we knew the growth, and we have been continuing to talk about the growth going forward. Remember, we think about 2025 through 2027, if we think about Blackwell and Rubin together, that's $1 trillion.

We knew that. We knew that, that opportunity would be in front of us, and we knew it would probably exceed that. What that means is you have to be thinking about your suppliers, your full ecosystem because I would say it's not just the supplier piece of it, you also have to think about the land, power, shell as essentially a supply. It is a principal piece of what we need to do to complete. So our work is long-standing.

Our supply is not just ordering what is there. Remember, often, we are in deep design with many of our different suppliers at the very onset of what we are putting into our full systems. That design product is working with them way ahead of where we are now in market. You would say probably more than 3 years ago, those are where some of those discussions started. And then that is a continuous ongoing focus in terms of the supply we need. We have a significant amount of purchase commitments. It's a number that I don't think any significant company would look at that and say it's a small number. We're essentially at about $124 billion of commitments.

Now the entire logic semiconductor industry was that a few years ago.

It's an enormous number. But keep in mind, there's an ongoing every day. You never know what day you are fully where you need to be from a supply. Demand arises the next day, and we're in that continued discussion with our suppliers. No one's immune to the supply constraints. We all have our continued work trying to help them with it. But given our size and given our long-standing work with them, we can continue to think long term with them.

It's important to understand it's not necessarily how they divvy up supply, the question is how do they stand up the capacity, the manufacturing lines to continue what they're doing. And that's where we often come in, how can we assist, how can we help you understand what is going to be necessary? The first question is, how many manufacturing facilities do I need to support NVIDIA?

So it's an important area. I can make the same type of statement for land, power, shell. How do we help them stand that up? How do we align that with people that are interested and didn't have enough compute, but now need more land, power, shell, we can also be continuing to work that ecosystem as well.

Right. So despite the inflation we see in everything around us, do you think NVIDIA can kind of sustain the kind of margin levels despite all this because of the planning work and prepurchase commitments?

Nothing as we see moving forward changes to where we are today. Even when we think about putting Vera Rubin in market. We have done so much work and is very well appreciated with many of our customers, both on the manufacturing side and the cycle time. How long will it take me to get this product into the first day of revenue from what they're putting in together. And they've actually really seen a true difference. We're on our third generation, and that is moving very fast, but also very efficient, not just focused on the system, but the full manufacturing of what it takes to get that up and running fast. So at this time, I don't see anything different going forward. Does this continue for us? Yes. And we'll find out more later, but that's where we stand.

Understood. Before I ask about the CPU, one other thing I kind of remember from what was said at GTC Taipei was the ability to improve monetization, right, per gigawatt. I think there was a kind of a road map given of from $40 billion towards $60 billion to $80 billion. What is driving that? Because those are pretty big numbers, right, and pretty serious. I mean that's like your content expansion with every new generation.

Every new generation takes more and more focus on every last piece of that system and getting it accelerated, okay? Not focusing on a very single one chip. One of the comments that we've made in terms of Vera Rubin, it's 7 different chips. When you think about the importance of just the switching capability, the connectivity of moving, how fast can we move things across? How can we make sure all different types of asks of the compute are being held and accounted for in terms of that?

So that's where the CPU now becomes an important part in terms of how we put that in there. It also thinks of all of the different switches. It thinks about in terms of the adapters and pieces of that. You've got a BlueField opportunity included in this. And then also what we can do just from a sheer GPU and the overall development of that. So you bet, we're going to continue to see not just because we're focusing on the chip, it's because you focus on that full data center and that capability.

Got it. Makes sense. And then just the final topic in the last 90 seconds, which is on the CPU side. So what drove your decision to invest in the CPU? It's not the biggest part of the content. What has made it more important? And why invest in ARM, right? Why not just -- I mean, you were using x86 in many of the head notes before, why not just continue to stay with that?

Yes. The design that we've done is very well aligned to agentic type of solutions, that verification of the agentic work that needs to be done. So the hard work sits with that GPU and now that CPU is really right in line for what that's going to be necessary. However, it doesn't mean that you just want to build something off the shelf because you still want that connectivity of the software, how does all that work together. It is more performant. Remember, it's a 2x more performance, which is an important piece. But it is also our own cores in terms of what we put together.

If you don't mind, I'd love to take the last 30 seconds here to remind, though, in terms of where we've really gotten to in a very good place in terms of returning capital to our shareholders.

Yes, of course.

I know it's a really great opportunity. You know that we've had to focus in terms of on our suppliers, our ecosystem to build so much of what we've done. But given now where we stand with a significant amount of cash flow generated from these full systems, the amount that we can return to shareholders 50% or more absolutely is a key focus of ours, not just for today, not just for tomorrow, but for the long term, we'll continue to focus on this. But we also added the dividend. Our dividend has been with us yes, for 13 years.

Since you joined.

That is correct as far as when it started. And it's now time to also serve a very important market that also has the ability to, from a capital return, choose in terms of our dividend as well. A great opportunity for $1 a share per year. And that is, again, an area that we will continue to focus on for growth, not just our share repurchases, but also our dividend. So I just want to make sure that I clear.

Why limited to 50%, why not 75%?

We're working on it, and we'll let you know in terms of there. But how about we'll go through this year at $1 each.

Maybe next year when you're here for the keynote, by that time.

When we'll come back next year, we'll talk about it. Sounds good. Thank you.

Thank you so much, Colette. Really appreciate your time.

Thank you, everybody. Welcome to day 2 of our 54th Annual TMT Conference. Really pleased to be joined on stage by Sean O'Loughlin, who heads up our networking coverage; and Gilad Shainer of NVIDIA? How did I do?

Almost, almost. Close enough.

All right. I think my bosses are in the room so I am obligated to ask you for an Extel vote, if you think we've earned it this year. And if the Wi-Fi password wasn't subtle enough, we'd really appreciate it. Gilad, maybe just to start with that out of the way, you guys reported earnings last week. The networking numbers you gave, I think, were at $14.9 billion, up 199% year-over-year. A lot of that is obviously captive in your NVL racks, but maybe you could walk through what are the key components that are driving all the momentum you're seeing on the networking side?

Yes. So just to tell a secret, I got to pick on the questions beforehand. And the original question was 199% growth and nearly $15 billion of revenue. And I couldn't sleep at night yesterday because I tried to figure out who wrote the question. 199% and nearly $15 billion, right? It couldn't be an engineer because an engineer would say 199% and $14.8 billion. And it could be marketing person because it was nearly $215 billion, right? So I couldn't sleep at night, sorry for that, I try to figure out. But he corrected now. So when you look on what we built and what we design, we designed a single unit of computing. We designed an AI factory, which is a single unit of computing.

And when you design a full data center, full AI factory that needs to behave like a single unit of computing, there is a lot of infrastructures, a lot of networking infrastructures that you need to bring into that AI factory to make it work like one. There is scale up with NVLink. There is scale out. In scale out, we have InfiniBand as one option, and we have Spectrum-X switch as another option. We have scale across that we're using with Spectrum FGS and then we have introduced a new storage infrastructure with BlueField as a storage processor. And we also have an access network that we're using BlueField as a device to have -- enable access into the AI factory and provide all the security capabilities and so forth.

All of those networks, all of those areas, infrastructures are growing. So we see growth in NVLink as a scale-up domain, we see growth on InfiniBand and Spectrum-X Ethernet as a scale-out domain. And we see growth in BlueField as a storage processor, as also a DPU to enable access. So there's growth on all those infrastructures, all those elements and that contribute to the numbers that you mentioned.

Okay. I'm going to go back in time all the way to 2020. NVIDIA made the acquisition of Mellanox that brought you and your team over. We've referred to this on our team as perhaps the most important and successful technology M&A has ever happened. Can you talk about how that deal came together? What did NVIDIA see and why they felt they needed to bolster that networking asset so early? And how is it paying dividends now? And what are your expectations going forward as well?

Yes. There's another thing that I saw in the questions, by the way. Those are very long questions, very long questions. I'm an engineer. So if you have more than 4 words and a question, I completely lose -- so I need to recap what you ask. How the acquisition happened. I think it was simple. Jensen came, we talked and he put a deal and we signed it. That's it. Simply as is. I think that Jensen saw that the world needs computing data centers or accelerated data centers, AI factories. He saw that NVIDIA needs to become a computing company, not a device company, not an AC company, but a computing company.

And the way that you connect computing ASICs will determine what those compute ASICs can do. If you connect it in one way, you just got server farm. If you connect it in a different way, you actually can build a supercomputer. So in order to go to a direction to enable the company to become a computing company, you need to bring the right networking infrastructure that enables all of that magic. And I think this is what you saw in Mellanox. And that's the reason that he came, we talked, there was a love at first sight, put a bid and we agreed, and we joined NVIDIA. Joining NVIDIA, Mellanox was kind of one team. There was no -- there are no different business units in a sense, Mellanox was one team. And we were focusing on building networking infrastructure for distributed computing workloads.

We build a great technology that used in high-performance computing and AI is another example of distributed computing workload, and that's why Mellanox was a great fit to NVIDIA. When we joined NVIDIA, when I joined NVIDIA, it was a great experience because NVIDIA actually behave and work the same as Mellanox. It's 1 unit. It's actually 1 unit. There's group discussions, group meetings, networking and compute and infrastructure, all work as one team. And same as Mellanox. So it was actually felt like home. A larger home. There's more people in that house, more rooms in that space, but it felt like we didn't leave Mellanox. It was a great experience and it still is.

Okay. For your direct feedback, I'm going to ask 2 questions at once.

That's going to be -- I'm not going to remember the second question.

We'll get through it together. And then I'll pass it to Sean to ask about scaling up out across and diagonally. So I think there's been -- you guys have shifted from selling GPUs to selling fully integrated racks. And I think there has been some pushback on -- from ecosystem partners that don't like being captive into one not having optionality, which components to pick and choose. Can you talk about the pros and cons of that go-to market? And then also, how NVLink Fusion came about? Was that a reaction to this trend and what that offers your customers?

Yes. Well, you did combine 2 questions. So when you build a supercomputer, when you build an AI factory, you need to build it as one unit because that's actually the compute unit. And when you build 1 compute unit that had a lot of components inside, you need to have extreme co-design that combines the software and the hardware and the compute ASIC and the networking ASICs and storage element and so forth because you build 1 unit. So we design it vertically. Everything needs to work as a balanced system. If one element does not give what the rest of the elements are required, and that system will not work, okay? When we deal with distributed computing workloads, I'll give you one example. When you deal with distributed computing workloads, you need all the compute ASICs to work like one. If one of those ASICs, let's say, have hundreds of thousands of GPUs in my factory in my data center. If one of that GPU ASIC gets data a little bit late versus all others, all others will wait, okay? That's how serious it is.

And therefore, you need to design it vertically. But after we design it vertically and we bring all the co-design elements and making sure that everything works as a single unit, we actually sell it horizontally. You can take pieces. You can take pieces of it. You can take the GPU, you can take the CPU, you can take the networking, you can take NVLink separately, and then you can mix and match with your own designs, if you want to. So what we do, it's actually vertically, but everything can be used as a different separate unit. And nothing is kind of closed. Everything is very open. All the interfaces are given, are known, you can actually put your own software and own modifications and your own enhancement on top of what we do.

And therefore, we can choose what you want to take. NVLink Fusion, you mentioned NVLink Fusion and that's actually an answer that it's not a black box because everything we design, we are so proud of them, then we're happy if you take any piece of it. So NVLink Fusion because it's -- I think it's the only scale up network that is proven from performance and from a production perspective. And if we build something that great, why don't we want our customers and partners to enjoy that as well even if they have their own CPU or even if they have own GPU that they have built and they want to use it. And therefore, nothing is a black box. All the components are available. You can choose, you can mix and match. And Fusion actually enable our customers to also take NVLink as a separate element if they want to do that. And we're also working with an ecosystem. So we have already made announcements on our partners and customers that are part of NVLink Fusion ecosystem or using NVLink Fusion for their own AI factories.

I wanted to pivot a little bit to some more geeky and more fun questions about tech rather than these lame business questions. Maybe if I could just ask an open-ended question about Spectrum and its approach to Ethernet in a system way where there's both intelligence on the NIC side and within the switch as opposed to a more purely switch-centric architecture. What are the benefits on the spectrum side? And how does that translate both in a training environment and in a more distributed inference environment?

Yes. Well, we can take an hour to answer this question. So if you have time, when we start working on Spectrum-X Ethernet. Well, the reason that we start with Spectrum-X Ethernet, first, we have InfiniBand, and we still have, and it's growing, and it's -- it's one of the best technologies ever created for distributed computing workloads. That's why Mellanox did so great in high-performance computing. And if you look on high-performance computing, supercomputers, you're going to see a lot of InfiniBand there. It was built for low latency. It was built to eliminate jitter, which is a key element and so forth. But as AI is growing and AI, every data center become accelerated, every data center becomes an AI Factory. We needed -- we also need to bring an option for Ethernet because we have customers that invested in Ethernet.

They know how to run Ethernet. They build their software management on top of Ethernet, and it's going to be hard for them to go and do something else. So we have InfiniBand for people to use InfiniBand, and we also wanted to design an Ethernet version that can also be used for scale-out that can also be used for AI workloads and distribute computing workloads. Now when people refer to Ethernet, it's important to note that there is no one Ethernet out there. There are different kinds of Ethernet and different kinds of Ethernet that were developed for different kind of workloads.

There is Ethernet kind that was developed for high virtualized small Radix infrastructure. There is another kind of Ethernet that was developed for a single server workloads, large cloud infrastructures. There's another kind of Ethernet that was developed for telco and DCI and kind of long distances and based on the deep buffers approach and so forth.

The issue that we had is that none of those were built for distributed computing workloads. None of those were designed to eliminate jitter. Jitter was fine. If I build Ethernet for single server workloads, I don't care if there is a skew in time between 1 server to another server because there is no communications between them. If I'm building something for a long distance or DCI and I base it on deep buffers, I actually based it on creating jitter, okay? So none of them were dealing with jitter and jitter is the biggest problem when you deal with distributed computing workloads or AI training and inferencing, which is our example for distributed computing workloads.

And that's the reason that we actually created Spectrum-X. And Spectrum-X is the only Ethernet that is purposely built for AI. Now something that we learn from InfiniBand is that there is no way to build a network that's going to eliminate jitter and do that on a single device. No way. And it's simple to explain it, okay? Data that comes out from the GPU goes out in an order same as we speak. There is an order of the words. Data that's going to be written to a remote GPU needs to get to that remote GPU memory in order. And if that data is going to go through a switch and that switch needs to maintain that order, then that switch will introduce jitter.

And the reason is that every switch has a lot of ports that you can use. There is a lot of path in the network. If the switch will start doing distribution of every packet can go to a different route to a different flow because there is less busy road that I want to use, then that will create by definition out of orderness in the delivery of data. And that means that I cannot use it on the other side. And if you look on all the designs of the off-the-shelf switches that exist today, they are actually based on not creating out of orderness so they're using approaches like flowlets, which means if there is a flow, I'm going to keep that flow even though there is an empty road that I can get it faster.

No, I'm going to keep it the same path because the data must get in order to the other side. That's your enemy, okay? That's how you create jitter. And we didn't want that to happen. We actually wanted to make sure that there is no jitter. And in Spectrum-X Ethernet, the switch needs to unconditionally distribute traffic across the entire infrastructure that exists. The switch will choose for every packet a different port. What is the fastest path, what is the less busiest path I'm going to use. And by definition, I'm creating out of order of data delivery. And in order to put the data back in order, I need a SuperNIC on the other side.

So I'm using RDMA because RDMA enables me to put the data directly in the GPU memory, no buffer copies, no delay on the other side. But I need a smart element that sits next to the GPU on the server that will take data that's going to come completely out of order, but place it in the right order in the GPU memory. And that's the purpose of the SuperNIC. And that's why when you build an infrastructure for distributed computing workloads, you need to have a switch element that does the distribution unconditionally. And then you need a SuperNIC that will put the data back in order. That's why it's an infrastructure, and it's not a single device.

I think that's a perfect segue to kind of expand this conversation about out of order and packet spraying type concepts and talk about maybe if you could just talk about MRC and the recent announcement that you made with your consortium partners as well as maybe contrast that with some of the goals that the Ultra Ethernet consortium is going -- because it sounds to a layman like myself and I would assume most in the room, a lot of what Ultra Ethernet consortium is attempting to do is solve for that problem.

Yes. There is more and more focus on AI workloads as every data center is going to be accelerated and AI is going everywhere. So obviously, there is a good attention on it. What we did in Spectrum-X Ethernet is 2 things. One of them is we brought a lot of learning from InfiniBand to Ethernet. Lossless. The reason that we want -- we prefer lossless is because we don't want to drop packets because of congestion because once you drop packet, you need to retransmit it, and that means jitter, that means extra delay. So we don't want to drop packets and we're focusing on lossless. Focusing on RDMA. And by the way, the other protocols that you mentioned also based on RDMA. ROCE is just RDMA over Ethernet. If you say RDMA and ROCE actually, you said the same thing, okay, twice.

ATM machine.

Yes. MRC is also or RDMA or ROCE, for example, based and so forth. We also brought adaptive routing into the infrastructure that has been done in hardware because we actually want the decisions on the different paths to be done very, very quickly immediately. So we brought all those things into Spectrum-X. We also enable in Spectrum-X a flexibility to support other routing protocols on top of that. MRC is an example for that. MRC is another way or another algorithm to how to distribute the traffic across the network. And Spectrum-X does not support just one protocol. Spectrum-X actually supports multiple protocols on that infrastructure. It supports adaptive RDMA protocol. It supports MRC protocol on top of that. And I can tell you, it supports other customized protocols that our other customers or large customers have developed and are using.

So there is a variety of routing protocols that can run on top of Spectrum-X, and there are optimized as an entire infrastructure on the end-to-end side because, again, for any protocol, you need 2 elements at least. There is an element on the SuperNIC and there is an element on a switch. A lot of things, by the way, that we built into Spectrum-X, those are the things that were discussed later on in other consortium like you mentioned, and there is always -- there is also other groups of companies that working on more algorithms and so forth.

As we have customers that build very large infrastructures, very large AI factories, those are expensive AI factories and they would like to optimize their infrastructure to the way they run their own workloads. So that's why we brought the ability in Spectrum-X to support different kind of routing protocols to do that in a zero-jitter approach, and it could be the adaptive RDMA, MRC and several others.

Just briefly clarify when we talk. So would it be fair to compare MRC to, for example, BGP as that is another routing protocol that could be built on top of Spectrum.

Yes, there is -- exactly. And in Spectrum-X, first in Spectrum-X is what was important from us -- for us to use all the standard protocols that exist in Ethernet. The way that we implement that, that was done differently in order to eliminate jitter and so forth. MRC is another way to route packets, for example, you mentioned other protocols, yes, there is multiple protocols that you can use. There is ways to implement that in a way that to eliminate jitter, have zero jitter, which is the key element. And all of those options are supported on Spectrum-X Ethernet.

I'll maybe steal one more geeky question. And that is, if you could just talk about how the networking problem changes moving from large-scale pretraining to maybe a multi-tenant inference workload type? Does the -- and maybe how are your customers thinking about provisioning fungibility across those 2 deployments? Is there may be an overprovision of a back-end network in the eventual inference because it gives you flexibility to scale up and down, not scale up in the networking sense, but scale up and down...

Yes. So there is a lot of commonality between actually pretraining and inferencing. Both are distributed computing workloads. Both require zero jitter. Now when we say zero jitter, zero jitter means that if you're running a single workload, that workload will not impose different delays on different communications to different GPUs because that's going to be a nightmare, okay, from a performance perspective. But it's the same thing when you run multiple workloads on the same infrastructure, like a cloud, like AI cloud, one of the key problems in traditional clouds and off-the-shelf Ethernet was used, is as jitter was not a thing that was a focus. What happened is that one workload could impose performance issues on another work. One workload can create delays in the network that will impact another workload that shares the same infrastructure.

And one of the common best practices in traditional cloud was never have 2 different users run on the same switch because one will impact the other. And then your SLA is gone out of the window. So there was a heavy focus on how do I schedule different jobs in a traditional cloud that one job will not be in the same switch as another because that will negatively impact the performance on another job. Once you deal with jitter, once you eliminate jitter, it means that there is no traffic that will create congestion in the infrastructure.

And if there is no traffic that will create congestion in the infrastructure, there is no way for one workload impact another workload. So it doesn't really matter if those are 2 training workloads running on a same infrastructure or it's 100 inferencing workload that runs on the same infrastructure. You need the same solution for both. So what we brought in Spectrum-X for training. That was the first workload that we're running, it's so amazing now when you have inferencing, you can actually see the difference in that.

Now inferencing does enable or -- the need to create more infrastructures. And recently, we announced a new storage infrastructure for context, for memory context for inferencing because now as we move to the world of agentic AI, there's AI talks with AI, there is much more data that you need to hold. There's more -- there's larger sizes of KV cache. Not everything can be stored in a local server and a GPU server, and you need to go to an outside storage and outside storage it exists is network storage and network storage is great for a variety of workload, but it's not really optimized for inferencing because network storage was built to make sure that the data is not going to get lost.

So I'm going to invest in replicas of the data and making sure that if an SSD went down, I still have replicas in others, it's too expensive if you look on inferencing because in inferencing, for the rare cases that something is going to happen to an SSD, I can actually recalculate the data. So instead of investing in replicas and so forth, I can build something that is going to be much more effective and optimized for inferencing.

And that's what we did with BlueField and STX and CMX and creating a new storage infrastructure for inferencing for KV cache. So what we built for training works greatly for inferencing actually, but inferencing created or drove the creation of more infrastructures as part of the big AI factory.

All right. I'm going to ask one that Sean is going to have to deal with the answer to. So it seems like the debate on CPO has shifted from scale out to scale up more recently. What's your view of what CPO can bring to both of these domains and what sort of a reasonable time frame at which we should expect CPO adoption more broadly in your compute ecosystem.

Yes. And I'll combine 2 answers if it's okay. You combine 2 questions, I'll combine 2 answers. There is also -- I heard that there is a debate between copper versus CPO, copper versus optics. It's actually a funny debate. It's like you're going to ask, how do you look at an airplane versus a car? If I need to drive to the next city, if I need to drive to New Jersey, I'm going to take a car. If I need to fly to Taiwan, which I have a flight tonight, I need to take an airplane, right? There is no way I can use a car. The same thing goes to copper versus optics, okay? If I can use copper, which means is that the distance that I need to cover is applicable for copper. I'm going to use copper because optics will be too expensive for that.

If I need to go to New Jersey, I'm not going to take an airplane, I can fly from New York to JFK, right? For example, I can do that with an airplane. Yes. But why, right? So copper consumes 0 power. It's very cost-effective, it's very reliable. The problem is short distance. But if that distance is okay for where I am designing, I'm going to use copper. If the distance is not applicable and copper cannot cover, the needed distance, I'm going to use optics. That's simple. Now in the optical world, in optical connectivity, there is different ways to connect optics. There is different kind of transceivers and so forth. But optics in order to cover distances require to use active devices. They require to use different kind of light sources and DSPs and optical engines and so forth, all of those consume energy. And we live in a world today that power is the #1 limit of AI factories of the compute capacity they can build an AI factory, right? That's my limiting factor.

And of course, I want to try and optimize power consumption. I want to reduce power consumption wherever I can in order to be able to bring more compute because this is how I'm limited. And since optical connectivity is more and more used, scale-out requires optical connections because of distance and it consume more and more power. Scale up domain, if that scale up domain is within the rack, I'm going to use a car. I'm going to use copper. That scale-up domain is start to have multiple racks, I need to use optics. So when we talked about, for example, connecting 1,152 GPUs with the Feynman platform, we'll also mention, hey, that will also use co-packaged optics so optics in order to run the distance. Now if I'm using optics, in optics on scale-out infrastructure today can get close to almost 10% of the compute capacity on power perspective. That's a big number.

Co-packaged optics is a technology that enables to minimize the power consumption that is going to done or run or used on the optical network. And that's why we went to Co-packaged optics. That's why investing in Co-packaged optics because if I need to go to distances, I need optics, if I'm using optics, I want to have the latest, the best technology that consumes the least amount of power and that's called Co-packaged optics, regardless if it scale out, scale up, scale across, it depends on the distance.

All right. Well, unfortunately, we're out of time. I think we could have sat up here for another hour, but Gilad, we really appreciate you joining us and providing all of your insight. I mean it's a privilege to get a front row seat to see what the innovation you and your team is driving and good luck.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Gilad.

Good afternoon. My name is Sarah, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to NVIDIA's First Quarter Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]

Thank you. Toshiya Hari, you may begin your conference.

Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to NVIDIA's conference call for the First Quarter of Fiscal 2027. With me today from NVIDIA are Jensen Huang, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Colette Kress, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Our call is being webcast live on NVIDIA's Investor Relations website. The webcast will be available for replay until the conference call to discuss our financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2027.

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During this call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures. You can find a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures in our CFO commentary, which is posted on our website.

With that, let me turn the call over to Colette.

Thank you, Toshiya. We delivered an exceptional quarter with revenue, operating income and free cash flow exceeding our prior records. Total revenue of $82 billion was up 85% year-over-year and 20% sequentially. This marked our third consecutive quarter of year-over-year acceleration and the 14th straight quarter of sequential growth, a significant feat given the sheer size and complexity of our manufacturing operations.

The $13.5 billion sequential revenue increase was also a record. We capitalized on the inflection in inference demand by ramping Blackwell systems across our diverse end customer base. from hyperscalers to motto makers to AI cloud providers and sovereign customers. In Q1, we also allocated capital effectively across R&D, investments in our ecosystem and share repurchases. We returned a record $20 billion to our shareholders while executing strategic investments, both upstream supply chain, and downstream go-to-market ecosystem. This is critical to the market's development and our long-term position.

Data center revenue of $75 billion was up 92% year-over-year and 21% sequentially, driven by sustained strength in our Blackwell architecture and demand for GB300 NVL72 was particularly strong with Frontier motto builders and hyperscalers each having cumulatively deployed hundreds and thousands of Blackwell GPUs, marking the fastest product ramp in our company's history. Grace Blackwell is the fastest training system as well as the lowest token generation cost at Inference. Spectrum-X, our end-to-end Ethernet platform purpose-built for AI is now larger than all Ethernet network peers combined. InfiniBand has also had a very strong quarter, growing more than 4x year-over-year, driven by deployments of our next-generation XDR technology.

For your models, data center computing revenue of $60 billion was up 77% year-over-year while data center networking revenue of $15 billion, nearly tripled year-over-year.

Before we dive into data center, we'd like to brief you on our transition to a new reporting framework that better reflects our current and future growth drivers. We have 2 market platforms, data center and edge computing. Within data center, we will report 2 submarkets hyperscale and ACIE, which incorporates AI clouds, industrial and enterprise. Hyperscale will include revenue from the public cloud and the world's largest consumer Internet companies, while ACIE addresses our growth opportunities in diverse AI purpose-built data centers and AI factories across industries and countries. Edge computing highlights devices for agent and physical AI, including PCs, gaming consoles, workstations, AI RAN base stations, robotics, and automotive. For your reference, we have posted on our website a revenue breakdown based on our new platforms for the past 9 quarters.

Moving back to our data center results. Hyperscale revenue of $38 billion was approximately 50% of data center revenue and increased 12% quarter-over-quarter. ACIE revenue was $37 billion and grew 31% quarter-over-quarter, including AI cloud revenue that more than tripled year-over-year. Our customers have enabled rapid stand-up of AI compute capacity. The number of partner [indiscernible] exceeding 10 megawatts has nearly doubled in just 1 year, now surpassing 80 sites. Sovereign revenue increased more than 80% year-over-year. NVIDIA AI infrastructure is now deployed across nearly 40 countries, representing $50 trillion in GDP. As evident to our Q1 results, our customer base is diverse and growing, supported by our best ecosystem and installed base, breadth of CUDA accelerated application and the lowest token cost provider. We are well positioned to address a market opportunity that far exceeds that of any other AI computing platform.

Demand for AI infrastructure continues to expand at an unprecedented pace. The build-out of AI factories is accelerating the value of NVIDIA AI infrastructure is rising. The price of renting an [ H-100 ] has risen 20% year-to-date, while A100 cloud pricing is up nearly 15%. Benefiting from the versatility of our platform and continuous performance enhancements enhanced by our software stack, customers are generating profitable revenue beyond the depreciable life of their GPUs. The vast and trusted marketplace for NVIDIA compute is a critical foundation on which billions and AI infrastructure spending is being financed by the ecosystem.

There are 2 primary drivers behind the accelerating build-out of AI infrastructure. First, from search and advertising to recommender systems and content understanding. The largest hyperscale workloads continue to transition from CPU to GPU-based accelerating computing. Second, the adoption of products and services native to AI is inflecting. Since the advent of ChatGPT, we have witnessed mainstream AI transition from one-shot inference to reasoning and to now agent AI is no longer a nice to have. AI is now a necessity for enhancing productivity across all industries and roles. This is propelling revenue acceleration across all layers of the AI cake, including energy, chips, infrastructure, models and applications. Growth in the model layer, particularly at Anthropic and OpenAI has been incredible with momentum continuing to accelerate, including breakout growth in OpenAIs Codex since the launch of GPT 5.5.

With analysts now forecasting hyperscale CapEx to exceed $1 trillion in 2027 and Agentic-AI beginning to proliferate all industries AI infrastructure spending is on track to reach $3 billion to $4 trillion annually by the end of this decade. Our Blackwell architecture is everywhere, adopted and deployed by every major hyperscaler, every cloud provider and every major model maker. Last month, we celebrated OpenAI's launch of GPT 5.5 codesigned for trained with and served on Blackwell, currently positioned at the top of artificial analysis leaderboards. Microsoft [ Fair water ], the world's most powerful AI data center is now live, ahead of scheduled powered by hundreds of thousands of Blackwell GPUs.

Starting this year, AWS will add more than 1 million Blackwell and Rubin GPUs and are collaborating on Spectrum Networking. At Google, Blackwell will be offered to customers in the cloud, including confidential computing capability, a new foundation for secure high-performance AI. Our share of front tier AI compute is increasing. We have deepened our collaboration with Anthropic and are delighted to a strategic partner to expand their compute capacity. We will support the company's growth trajectory through AWS, Azure, [ Core ], Space-X AI and more.

Now with the addition of Anthoropic-2, OpenAI, Gemini, [ SpaceXXAI ], Meta, MSL, Microsoft AI, TML, Reflection, Complexity, Cursor, and other major frontier labs already building on NVIDIA. Our share of front Tier A models will grow significantly. Today's data centers, are revenue-generating AI factories constrained by power and capital AI factory operators must choose the right architecture. With our extreme codesign approach, we deliver the industry's lowest token cost, the highest token throughput and the highest ROI. [ MLPerf ] inference results are in. And once again, we swept every benchmark as Blackwell Ultra delivered the highest throughput across the broad set of models and deployment scenarios. Full stack innovations drove the 2.7x increase in throughput and a 60% reduction in the cost per token on GB300 compared to just 6 months ago.

NVIDIA compute is not just the highest performance AI infrastructure. It is the most economic and financeable. Customers do not buy GPUs. They build AI factories and the right economic metric is not the purchase price of the GPU. It is the life top cost of an AI factory producing intelligence, token [ Berat ], tokens per dollar, uptime, utilization, time to production, software durability and asset light. NVIDIA excels at all of them. Agentic-AI and reinforcement learning represents new growth opportunities for CPUs. Building on the success of our [ Brace ] CPU, Vera is arriving just in time to meet this inflection.

Built on custom arm [indiscernible] and codesigned end-to-end with Rubin GPUs and NVLink, Vera will deliver up to 1.5x faster performance per core, 2x performance per watt and 4x density per rack compared to x86-based alternatives. Vera CPU opens a brand-new 200 billion [ down ] for NVIDIA a market we have never addressed before. And every major hyperscale and system maker is partnering with us to get it deployed. We have visibility to nearly $20 billion in total CPU revenue this year, setting us up to become the world's leading CPU supplier.

Our annual product patients, a pace that is unmatched remains a key pillar supporting our market position. We are on track to commence production shipments of Vera Rubin in the second half of this year starting in Q3 by integrating 7 purpose-built chips across 5 accelerated racks, Vera Rubin will deliver up to 35x higher inference throughput and up to 10x greater AI factory revenue compared with Blackwell. As an early adopter, Google's, [ A5X bare metal ] instances, which can support up to 960,000 Rubin GPUs across multiple sites can enable customers to run their largest AI workloads on NVIDIA's optimized infrastructure. While the U.S. government has approved licenses for H200 to be shipped to China-based customers, we have yet to generate any revenue, and we are uncertain whether any imports will be allowed into the country. As a result, Consistent with last quarter, we are not including any China data center compute revenue and our outlook.

Let me move to edge computing. Our edge computing market platform generated $6.4 billion, up 10% quarter-over-quarter and 29% year-over-year. Robust Blackwell workstation demand was a strong contributor to the growth while consumer demand fell modestly due to higher memory and system prices. Our physical AI continues to gain momentum, exceeding $9 billion in revenue over the last 12 months. Our partnership with Uber will power the Robotaxi fleet across nearly 30 cities and 4 continents by 2028. And in robotics, leading companies across a range of industrial, surgical and humanoid applications are building on NVIDIA's technology to develop and deploy at scale. We remain front-footed in securing sufficient supply to support our customers' growth.

In Q1, we increased codex supply inclusive of inventory purchase commitments on prepaid to $145 billion. While we are not immune to supply challenges, we remain confident in our ability to support the growth opportunity ahead with our intense focus, scale and long-standing partnerships with critical suppliers continuing to serve us well.

Let me move to the rest of the P&L. GAAP gross margin was 74.9% and non-GAAP gross margin was 75%, largely flat sequentially by Blackwell Systems continued to account for most of our shipments. GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses were up 12% sequentially, primarily due to higher compensation and an increase in compute and infrastructure costs. Our non-GAAP effective tax rate of 16% came just below our prior outlook due to favorable geographic mix. And on our balance sheet, days sales outstanding was 45 days due to favorable timing of collections, we expect to return to the mid-50s in Q2. We generated record free cash flow, $49 billion, up from $35 billion in Q4.

I'd now like to update you on our capital allocation plan. First, to reiterate. Our intention is to prioritize R&D and strategic investments both will enable us to cultivate our ecosystem, drive market growth and strengthen our market position. As a key enabler of AI, we will make investments necessary to deliver the industry's lowest cost per token and the highest token throughput, which will help our customers and partner scale and expand the AI Frontier. Return program is another key component of our capital allocation strategy, giving confidence in our long-term free cash flow outlook and our commitment to sharing our success with shareholders we are increasing our quarterly dividend from $0.01 to $0.20 per share. We plan to review our dividend on a regular basis as we continue to scale our business. We are also announcing an $80 billion share repurchase authorization, which is in addition to the $39 billion remaining on our current plan. As we indicated at GTC, we plan to return roughly 50% of free cash flow to shareholders this year.

Let me turn to the outlook for the second quarter. Total revenue is expected to be $91 billion, plus or minus 2%. We expect sequential growth to be driven primarily by data center. We are continuing to work vigorously on our supply chain ecosystem to address the incredible demand we see ahead of us, giving us full confidence in the $1 trillion in Blackwell and Rubin revenue we foresee from 2025 through calendar 2027.

GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 74.9% and 75%, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points. For the full year, we are still expecting to be in the mid-70s. GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $8.5 billion and $8.3 billion, respectively. For the full year, we now expect OpEx growth to grow somewhere in the upper 40s on a year-over-year basis, driven by higher R&D and acceleration in the usage of AI tools to enhance productivity. For the full year 2027, we expect GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates to be between 16% and 18%, excluding any discrete items from material changes to our tax environment. This is lower than our prior expectation of [ '17 to '19 ] due to changes in geographic mix.

That puts me at the end of this part. And I'm going to now turn this over to the Q&A with Toshiya.

Thanks, Colette. We will now transition to Q&A. Operator, please poll for questions.

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from Joseph Moore with Morgan Stanley.

I guess I'd like to ask what drove the change in segmentation? What's the philosophy behind giving us the numbers that way? And then can you talk about any competitive differences between the 2 segments and this kind of surprising CPU number that you talked about, how do you see that across the 2 segments as well?

Yes. Thanks, Joe. First of all, Colette meant to say we're increasing our quarterly dividend from $0.01 to $0.25. I think that extra $0.05 would mean a lot to the large shareholders.

So anyhow, let's see, Joe, on the segmentation and the description of the business. We wanted you to understand our business better. AI is very diverse and computing is diverse. They're diverse in several ways. The first thing, of course, is AI includes languages and depending on the different industries, it could be 3D graphics for manufacturing and industrial robotics. It could be proteins for life sciences. It could be small chemicals or life sciences or material sciences. It could be physics for the physical sciences, whether it's in the energy sector or, of course, the science labs, higher education, so on and so forth. So AI is diverse.

The second thing is the applications are diverse. It could be an enterprise, it could be in the energy sector, manufacturing sector and such. Where it runs is diverse. It could be in the hyperscale cloud. It could be AI natives, these a whole network of AI natives that are popping up around the world. Enterprises on-prem, industrial in the factories, in the plants, all the way to supercomputing centers and the edge. Edge, including, of course, what most people see, self-driving cars, robotics, but a large growing network of computers inside manufacturing plants whether it's a chip plant or packaging or computer plants, all kinds of different types of manufacturing plants. And then, of course, in the future, every single base station, every single radio network would become an AI-powered radio network. And so where it runs.

And then lastly, how it's governed. It could be operated by public cloud, but it could also have industrial regulatory reasons that prevents it from being run in a regulatory cloud. It could be because of confidential computing. It could be because of national security reasons, different data centers have to be built differently. NVIDIA is quite unique in the sense that we are the only company that builds all of the technology components. We build it in an extreme co-design way in a complete end-to-end way and a full stack way. But then we, of course, open the platform so that it could be integrated into all the different environments. But some environments just require -- an enterprise, for example, require a company who has all of the technologies working together so that they don't have to build it. They would like to buy it and operate it. And so there's many different segments of the data center market, where NVIDIA's total solution, fully integrated solution with full stack, but still open, that way of doing -- of producing or delivering products is really, really important.

And so if you look at our different segments, the way we broke it out into 3 large segments. You take all of the words that I just said, and you try to find the simplest factoring of it. It would be the hyperscale clouds that would be one large segment. And within that segment, there's 3 different ways that we operate. First way is that we help the hyperscale clouds, accelerate their data processing and machine learning workloads. We accelerate and support their AI processing inside. We also, of course, bring a lot of business NVIDIA ecosystem business to their public clouds. And so that's one segment.

The second segment is AI natives, enterprise on-prems, industrial on-prems in that and sovereign AI. That segment is growing incredibly fast because everybody needs AI, and we're going to see AI being adopted by every industry, every country, every company. And so everybody wants to build it in a different way. And the fact that we provide the entire solution, it makes it much easier, makes it possible at all for people to be able to build these things. And then, of course, the robotic edge.

Today, yesterday's computing was largely about personal computing. In the future, it's going to be about personal AI and that personal AI, one example of it is the self-driving car. It's a car, it's a robotic system that's essentially your personal AI. And of course, there'll be all kinds of different types of robotic systems including even the base station radio network, as I mentioned, is going to be essentially a robotic system.

So that's the reason why we broke it all apart this way. It's the simplest way of understanding our business. Each one of them have different stacks in a lot of ways. They have different operating systems. They operate in a different way. We go to market very differently in each one of them. The easiest go-to market, of course, is the hyperscaler because they're only 5 or 6 of them. But the rest of the industry represents a couple of 250,000 companies around the world. That go-to-market is very complex, very diverse. Your understanding of AI has to be extremely diverse. And as you know, NVIDIA has a large -- the largest suite of acceleration libraries in the world from computational lithography to fluid dynamics to particle physics, the molecular dynamics to the list goes on. And all of those libraries are essential for us to engage the vertical industries that represents the second and the third category, okay?

So anyways, it's really about the fact that our business has now evolved and grown to such a large scale it's helpful to segment it so that you have a better understanding of how our business works.

Your next question comes from Ben Reitzes with Melius Research.

I wanted to ask Jensen, I wanted to ask you about your philosophy on growth. Your data center business ex China grew about 120% in the quarter and then you're guiding about [ 100% ]. CapEx at the hyperscalers is forecast by many, including myself, to like grow 90% to 100% this year. And you talked about data center still on track to be $3 trillion to $4 trillion by the end of the decade. I was just wondering the goal for the company to grow faster than hyperscaler CapEx, Do you still -- are you comfortable in kind of endorsing that view? And do you still see hyperscaler CapEx kind of still growing after this year at a very rapid clip?

Yes. Thanks, Ben. So first of all, we should be growing faster than hyperscale CapEx. And the reason for that is illustrated by the segmentation that I just described. Our data center business has 2 large parts. It has more parts than that, but we combined it into 2 large parts for simplicity's sake. It's much more complex than the 2 large parts but I combined it into 2, so that it's at least easier to understand, okay?

And so if you look at the first part, it's hyperscalers. That's the hyperscale CapEx that you were just talking about. And there are $1 trillion this year. I -- very expectation is going to grow from here for fundamentally good reasons. This is the way computing is going to work in the future. And if they don't have the compute, they won't have the revenues. It is very clear, compute is revenues, compute is profit. And so the world is changing. Software didn't use SaaS, it didn't use to use as much compute, but AI requires a tremendous amount of compute. But you could do of course, incredibly more, which is the reason why we heard about the AI frontier AI companies, both Anthropic and OpenAI growing at an incredible pace. The fact that they can grow within 1 month, what some of the SaaS companies would have taken a decade to grow tells you something. And so the first category is hyperscale and the CapEx is at $1 trillion and it's growing towards the [ $3 trillion to $4 trillion ].

The second category, the second category is all of the AI native clouds. They're regional. They're all over the place. their start-ups all over the world, supporting those companies. They're enterprise, 250,000 enterprise companies around the world, many of them will have to bill or want to build AI factories for themselves to operate. Many industrial companies, there's no choice but to put the computer where the context is, where the action is, you can put that in the cloud. It has to respond reliably quickly every single time, can imagine a chip plant, a chip fab being connected to a cloud service provider doesn't make any sense. And so the second category and the sovereign AI clouds. And so there's a whole category of data centers that semi-custom chips just don't apply because these data centers want to buy systems, they want to operate systems, they don't want to design, they don't want to build it themselves.

And so the second category is extremely diverse. Instead of 5 or 6, 7 companies representing the revenues associated with our first category, the second category is hundreds, thousands of companies and in the future, will be hundreds of thousands of companies with a large number of companies with smaller installations. And that category is going to continue to grow at incredible pace. This second category, when I talk about physical AI, and I talk about how the rest of the $100 trillion industry that has not been affected by -- impacted by IT in the last 30 years. It's about to be impacted by AI. That is the segment that I'm talking about. The second cluster is growing incredibly fast.

Our share of that, of course, is very, very large. We're fairly unique in our ability to be able to serve this industry. Our platform is built like it's vertically integrated so that everything works but when -- then we disassemble it, so that people could build and bite in the configuration they want and assembly the way they like. And so this second category is fairly portly understood because there are just so many small companies or so many companies and each one of the installations are relatively small compared to, of course, one of the hyperscalers.

And so if you look at the segmentation and the size of each, you could see that, in fact, we're growing share in the hyperscalers because we now have much bigger support from Anthropic, a new partner of ours, and we're helping them expand their capacity greatly in the coming years. And then the second very few companies have exposure into the second category because of the platform solution that we have.

Your next question comes from C.J. Muse with Cantor Fitzgerald.

You have Vera Rubin coming soon, and you obviously have great insight into coming updates to frontier models, new techniques to optimize around diverse AI workloads with interest keenly focused on your market share and inference. How do you see Vera Rubin in your [ Extreme co-engineering ] impacting your share of the inference market as we look into late '26, '27?

Well, we are growing share in inference, and we're growing share in inference very, very quickly. And the reason for that is this year, the number of frontier model companies grew. And so there's Cursor and [ Complexity ] and there's some new model companies, TML and Reflection and the list goes on. And so the number of frontier model companies has grown, and we added Anthropic to our partnership this year. They're expanding incredibly fast. We've partnered with them to secure computing capacity across Azure, AWS, [ Core weave ], I forget who else we've already announced, but there's a whole list of others that we are bringing online for them. And so the amount of capacity that we're going to bring online for Anthropic this year and next year is going to be quite significant, very significant.

And so we're growing -- and our coverage of anthropic has been largely 0 until just recently. And so we're gaining share tremendously in inference. Vera Rubin's is going to be even more successful than Grace Blackwell at this point. every single, I can't think of one. Every single frontier model company will jump on Vera Rubin from the get-go, and that wasn't true before on Blackwell. And so Vera Rubin is off to a tremendous start and will surely be more successful than even Grace Blackwell.

So I think the end of your answer, C.J., is that we're gaining share in inference. Let me go back again to the question that Ben was asking. Remember, so far, everything that I've just explained in the inference question is really focused on hyperscale Remember, there's a whole second category of AI data centers that we serve almost uniquely. Now this segment is very fragmented. It requires a fairly -- really well-integrated platform solution and a very large go-to-market. And that segment, all of the inference, 100% of that -- the vast majority of that is NVIDIA. And then, of course, physical AI. NVIDIA is practically the only company serving physical AI today. And we've been working on physical AI for a long time. And so that is also growing. So our share of inference is growing very quickly.

Your next question comes from Timothy Arcuri with UBS.

Jensen, I wanted to ask about the traction you're getting with some of these custom merchant things you're doing, stuff like CPX and LPX. And I just wanted to ask and see sort of you've talked before about [indiscernible] being, I think, 20% of the market. So I would imagine you're getting pretty good traction with LPX. So can you just talk about that and maybe also how that fits into your broader platform strategy.

The LPX is designed for low latency and high token rate. But its throughput is low, its throughput is low. It's model size capacity is low. And it's context processing, its ability to absorb a lot of context, for example, for software coding, for agentic workloads, its ability to absorb a great deal of context is lower. And so the -- so the challenge is simply, and I've explained before that the use case for LPX is not broad. It's intended for somebody who has a fairly large portfolio of different types of token services. And for the high token rate, maybe these services are quite premium and the number of customers is not significant, but the token rate is very high. And so that remains exactly consistent with what I've said before, and I still expect that.

And so -- so I expect that LPX and other SRAM-based decode focused -- high token rate generated focused accelerators will always be -- would be a niche product for some time to come. As you know, Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin, we support the entire life cycle of AI from the data processing, preparing for training okay, data processing to pretraining to post training, reinforcement learning, all the way to inference. Grace Blackwell is the best platform in the world to do all of that. And if we -- if in certain circumstances, so long as the customer -- the provider already has a high token rate service that they can offer, then we can tack on an LPX and they could deliver that service even better. And so that's how I see the market.

And I think whether it's 20% or 10% just depends on where we are in the development of AI. I think today, it's a lot less than 20%. Some day, these premium tokens could be 20% and we're ready to work with service providers to enable this capability. I'm excited about it.

Your next question comes from Vivek Arya with Bank of America Securities.

Jensen, there's a lot of excitement around CPU for Agentic applications and just a lot of noise around the number of CPUs actually exceeding the number of GPUs. And I was just hoping that you could kind of give your perspective that, first of all, is this an incremental workload? Is this kind of cannibalizing what the GPU would have done otherwise? And then secondly, the $20 billion number that you gave, is that for stand-alone Vera CPUs? Or is that kind of already included in that Vera as part of Vera Rubin? So just if you could educate us on the role of CPU versus GPU is it cannibalistic? Is it incremental? And then the $20 billion number, how to kind of put that in context with what you sell, right, which is usually the CPU as part of the GPU.

The $20 billion is for stand-alone CPU. And remember, we have Vera is used in 3 ways. As a stand-alone -- 4 ways -- let me just start with the one that you already know. The first way is Vera Rubin. And we'll sell millions of Rubins, and every 2 of them is connected to a Vera. And of course, we price those 2 and they're properly priced. And so that's #1 use case.

The second use case is Vera standalone CPU. The third is Vera with [ CX-9 ] and the software stack for storage. And then Vera in a [ CX-9 ] -- with a software stack for security and compute isolation and confidential computing. Okay, so each one of those use cases is built on Vera. And my sense is that we'll be supply constrained throughout the entire life of Vera Rubin. There are 4 different use cases of it. And -- but anyhow, the answer to your question is of the $20 billion is a stand-alone.

With respect to CPUs, an agent is essentially what people call a harness. The agent has a harness that does the -- and the harness could be open cloud, it could be Hermes, code -- Cloud Code is essentially a harness around Cloud around the OPUS model. OpenAIs Codex is a harness around the GPT 5.5 model. And so these are harnesses. And these harnesses provide for things like IO, orchestration, memory management tool use connected to tools, for example, browsers and things like that, see compilers, python compilers. And so the harness runs on CPU. And the tool use runs on CPUs. So for example, if the AI were to do a search or do a browser, use a browser that would run on the CPU.

The world has 1 billion users, human users. My sense is that the world is going to have billions of agents. Not today, I mean, we're going to grow into it but we'll have billions of agents. And those billions of agents will all use tools. And those tools that can be like PCs, just like us humans using PCs today. In the future, you'll have an agent using PC and so if you kind of think along the lines of in the future, you pick your favorite number of agents at the moment, at the moment, call it, a few hundred thousand, but in the future, call it, eventually a few billion. I could imagine them all using the effectively having PCs that they can all use. And so -- but the large length, every one of those agents are going to spin off subagents. And every time they spin these off, you're going to need to do inference. That's where the thinking happens. All of the thinking happens on GPUs, all of the orchestration essentially runs on CPUs.

And the subagents when they're spun off, they -- when they're thinking they use GPUs. Whenever the agents use simulators, those can run on CPUs or GPUs, which is the reason why we're working so closely with Cadence and Synopsys and to accelerate all of the world's tool we're accelerating all of the world's tools and data processing engines and database engines because agents use these tools and have -- they have lower patients tolerance humans, and they want things to happen quickly. And so we're accelerating all the world's tools so that it runs on CUDA. And you could see us doing that when I work with Cadence and Synopsys, and Siemens and companies in Adobe. And that's because we're trying to get all of the world's tools to run on GPUs because they already have GPUs, and it's a lot faster.

So we're going to need a lot more CPUs, and Vera was designed to be an agenetic CPU. The CPUs of the past were designed to have many cores so that it could be easily rentable. People rent at cores. Well, agents don't rent cores. They just want the work to be done fast. The economics of the past was dollars per core. That's the economics of cloud computing of the past. The economics of the AI of the future is tokens per dollar or dollars per token. And so what we need to do in the future is to generate tokens, process tokens as fast as possible, and that's what Vera does incredibly well.

So we're expecting to be very successful with Vera. But ultimately, ultimately, what we're doing is we're building infrastructure for AI and it needs incredibly great storage. That's the reason why we built STX. It needs incredibly good networking. That's why we have Spectrum-X. It needs incredibly great GPUs, of course, and inferencing ability. That's the reason why NVLink 72. It needs incredibly great security and confidential computing, which is the reason why Vera Rubin is the world's first platform with end-to-end confidential computing and it needs great CPUs. We've got it all covered.

Your next question comes from Stacy Rasgon with Bernstein Research.

I wanted to go back to the segmentation. So first of all, I'm just curious, where do you put the neo clouds across those 2 segments? Are they in hyperscale? Or are they in the AI cloud. Part of me assumes the latter, but I'm not so sure. And then -- but just magnitude of them. I mean they're bolted up the same magnitude now. It almost sounded to me like you were suggesting that you thought the latter of the AI cloud would grow faster maybe going forward than hyperscale. Is that what you're trying to say? Or do you do see like the same kind of growth coming from both segments?

First of all, you're correct that AI native clouds -- AI native clouds don't build chips, don't design their own chips, and they don't want to -- they can't really assemble unrelated parts together into an AI factory. And their time -- their patients, their tolerance for time to first token is extremely low and their need for an architecture that has a great deal of offtake so that it runs every model as customers from everywhere is incredibly high. And so that's the reason why NVIDIA's architecture is so perfect for them. We offer every component and whatever we don't offer our ecosystem of partners offer it, and it's all fully integrated. It all works together. The number of customers that could rent it from an AI native is incredibly high.

Basically, every single AI builder, every AI native startup around the world. SaaS companies, enterprise companies, industrial companies.

And so our computing -- our architecture is the most rentable of any computing platform in the world. So it's the most performing. It's the easiest to put together. It's the most rentable, has the best TCO and it's the easiest to finance. And so all of those properties are quite unique to the needs of AI native. It's in the second category. They're very similar to even OEMs and so on and so forth, large enterprises and so forth surprising, okay? So we put that in the second category.

If you look at that segment, it started growing after the AI ecosystem developed in the hyperscale. Hyperscale developed AI first for a lot of reasons. They have great computer science. They have excellent data center capability. And they also focus largely on consumer applications, which, if not perfect, is not the end of the world. It enhances the service so long as it enhances the service. And so for many of the other applications, industrial applications, enterprise applications, until the AI is very capable and thus really productive work and does it safely, and it could do it in a way that can actually generate impact in income, it doesn't really get used. And so you expect the second category to develop slower than hyperscale, and you could see that in the numbers.

However, long term, if you look at industrial and enterprise, clearly, that's where future economics is going to be because it represents some $50 trillion, $80 trillion of the world's economy. And so -- and it's going to be larger than that because of AI. And so I expect the second category to be larger over time, both in the near term over the next several years, I think it's a foregone conclusion, both are going to grow incredibly fast I expect the second category to still grow faster, but both are going to grow incredibly fast. And then I'm hoping that within the next 5 years, physical AI and robotics segment is going to grow incredibly fast.

Your next question comes from Jim Schneider with Goldman Sachs.

Back at GTC, I believe you discussed $1 trillion visibility into both your Rubin and Blackwell platform revenue. But I believe that excluded things like LPX, Rubin CPX and the Vera CPU [ Rex ], can you maybe give us a sense about whether the Vera CPUs are going to be the biggest source of upside above and beyond that $1 trillion? Are you contemplating other sort of combinations of products, including CPUs that would allow you to gain an even greater share of that total TAM?

In terms of -- in terms of incremental above the $1 trillion, I would say, one, the continued growing of share of the Frontier AI models. I'm expecting to grow more share. And so I'm expecting that to grow. Number two, we didn't include any Vera CPU, stand-alone CPU in that number. And so I expect that to be the second largest. The TAM is, of course, quite large in agentic systems, and all of our customers are quite excited about Vera and we're going to sell a whole bunch of Vera's. And then third would be LPX. because as I explained earlier, LPX is designed as a -- because of its SRAM architecture has the benefit of very low latency and very, very high interactivity, but it's also its throughput, its context processing ability is also quite limited.

And that's just kind of the nature of SRAM type base systems. And -- but the combination, we'll be able to address the entire spectrum of AI from pretraining to post-training to inference agentic systems through the combination of Vera Rubin and LPX.

Your next question comes from Joshua Buchalter with TD Cowen.

And congrats on the great results. Colette, I believe in your prepared remarks, you mentioned GB300 is sort of the fastest ramp in the company's history. How should we think about Vera Rubin against this benchmark. It's obviously a new architecture at the silicon level, but in similar rack. Does that mean we should expect a similar slope to the Vera Rubin ramp as the GB300? Or should it be a bit more gradual given the new silicon?

Yes. Well, we've indicated for a while that we will be launching Vera Rubin in the second half. We will start in Q3. That will be our initial pieces together. And then once we get to Q4, we're probably going to start to see our ramping continue. It's hard to say at this point what will be a faster ramp. But again, we have demand already planned, we've got POs. We've got almost all of our major customers ready to go, and these are very complex systems that we need to put together. So I think it's just about the timing that it's going to take for us to get that into market. Nothing else other than getting from production of all of the different systems that we have ready for order.

So a little early to say. But yes, we're going to start in Q3 and continue to ramp into Q4 and Q1 of next year certainly is going to be very big as well.

There are no further questions at this time. Toshiya Hari, I turn the call back over to you.

Thank you. Before I hand it over to Jensen, please note Jensen will be giving a keynote at [ GTC Type ] at [ Computex ] on June 1. We will also be participating at the TD Cowen TMT Conference on May 28 and the Bank of America Global Technology Conference on June 4. Our earnings call to discuss the results of our second quarter of fiscal 2027 is scheduled for August 26.

With that, here's Jensen to close this up.

This was an extraordinary quarter, demand has gone parabolic. The reason is simple. Agenttic AI has arrived. AI can now do productive and valuable work. Tokens are now profitable, so model makers are in a race to produce more. In the AI era, compute capacity is revenue and profits.

NVIDIA is the platform of this era. Of all the platforms in the world NVIDIA compute supports the richest diversity of demand.

Let me highlight my top 5 things. First, NVIDIA is the only platform that runs every Frontier AI model. With the addition of Anthropic to our existing partners, OpenAI, [ X-AI ], [ Meta MSL ], Gemini and many others, our share of Frontier AI is growing. Second, we are in every hyperscale cloud, supporting their core data processing and machine learning workloads, internal services as well as supporting their demand for NVIDIA users in their public cloud services. Third, our full stack complete AI factory solution and vast global ecosystem let us uniquely address new AI data center segments. New AI cloud new AI native clouds and sovereign AI clouds and on-premises enterprise and industrial infrastructure. This is the second category I was talking about earlier. Fourth, NVIDIA CUDA extends all the way to the edge, robotics, autonomous vehicles, embedded medical instruments, AI ran telco base stations. The next wave is physical AI with billions of autonomous and robotic systems operating in the physical world. This is the third segment we were talking about earlier.

And rounding out the top 5 things, we have a major new growth driver, Vera, the world's first CPU purpose-built for Agentic-AI. Vera opens a brand-new $200 billion TAM for NVIDIA, a market we have never addressed before. And every major hyperscaler and system maker is partnering with us to deploy it. The world is rebuilding computing for agentic AI and robotic physical AI. NVIDIA sits at the center of these transitions. We built NVIDIA compute platform over 3 decades, one architecture, vast ecosystem, extreme co-design across chips, systems, networking and software. We built it ahead at this moment so that when agentic AI arrived NVIDIA would be ready. It has arrived.

Look forward to catching up next time.

This concludes today's conference call. You may now disconnect.

Good morning, everyone. As we quiet the back room, I have a very important job. As a reminder, the content of this presentation may contain forward-looking statements and investors are advised to read our reports filed with the SEC for information related to risks and uncertainties facing our business. And with that, I will turn it over to Jensen and Colette.

All right. Good morning, everybody. I hope you enjoyed the presentation yesterday, went a little bit longer, but I think it was an absolutely great summary for us, but we're going to take this time to focus on your needs and some of the additional kind of questions you are.

We're going to start with a couple, maybe the first slide or so, and then we'll open it up for questions. And I'm going to turn this over to Jensen with that.

Yes. As I was saying yesterday, there were 3 inflection points in recent AI. The first 1 was generative AI. The second was reasoning. And we're at the third inflection point now, and each one builds on the others. There's a lot of technical reasons why each 1 of them built on the others. But here we are with the third inflection point, which is Agentic systems. Agentic systems that are able to operate autonomously. That's why they call them agentic because they have agency, and you can give them goals. And instead of just answering questions, they can now perform tasks and tasks could be -- anything from, of course, one of the most popular applications of agenetic systems is write software. Engineers in your company, I'm sure, and engineers in my company for sure are using agentic systems all day long. And what used to be a thing for engineers is when you come to work, they give you a laptop. Now when you come to work, they give you laptop and tokens. And token budget is now a real thing. Every engineer is going to have a token budget. And the idea that you would hire a $300,000 engineer and they spend no tokens in doing their job, you've got to ask the question, what are they doing? And so it is very, very clear now that every engineer will have a lot of tokens that we have to consume, and those tokens are going to be produced.

Now I just said something a second ago, if you just connected the dots, we used to be when an engineer comes to work, software programmer, somebody comes to work, you give them a laptop, that's a tool. To get today, we give them a laptop and tokens. Those tokens have to be manufactured. And so a computer used to be just a tool, a computer of the future is a manufacturing equipment. And so these computers, as you see, there's no different than ASML manufacturing equipment in the future. They're producing something that is sold, just it's no different than a dynamo machine a long time ago that produced electricity. These are manufacturing systems and the energy efficiency of it, the production efficiency of it matters everything because it drives your revenues, okay? And so I -- the third inflection point is here. As you know, Open claw. Many of these things, when they first drop these open source projects when they first drop, they seem like toys, you take a step back. and just analyze what is Open claw on first.

[Audio Gap] Our Linux strategy just as we all had to have an Internet strategy, just what is your mobile cloud strategy. Now the question is what's your Open Claw strategy, okay? And so this is a very big deal.

The next I wanted to answer the questions about what I said here a little bit more. First of all, a year ago -- a year ago, I said that we had strong visibility of our Blackwell and Rubin shipments of $500 billion through 2026. I was standing in 2025, right? And so GTC 2025 is around was it March, April? It was October?

October.

Okay. October, I was standing there? You sure. It was October. GTC DC or GTC -- I said it twice, though. The first time I said it was GTC here, right?

I think you've been saying it twice. I don't think all the way back.

I see. Yes. Okay. Anyways. Anyhow, in 2025 -- 2025, one of those months, I said that we have strong visibility of Blackwell plus Rubin demand -- purchase orders and demand okay, very firm demand of $500 billion. And there were a lot of questions from many of you that -- so where are we now? And so you wanted an update on where we are now. And so I thought I'd give you guys an update, where we're standing right now and what month are we just for the record, March. And so here we are in March. Here we are in March, the end of 2027 -- the end of 2027, as you know, is many more months away. I just want to first let you guys know that. However, because we're building infrastructure and factories, and the lead times for everyone is long, they want to make sure they give us firm demand or give us -- purchase orders and firm demand as early as they can to secure their supply, okay? And so we have strong confidence and visibility, visibility and strong confidence of $1 trillion plus. There's -- it's not a floating point number, you guys, okay?

It is also not 94 digits of accuracy, okay? And we're not counting cents. You can keep your cents. However, we have strong visibility of $1 trillion plus of Blackwell plus Rubin. And the reason why it's only Blackwell plus Rubin and not all of the other things that we sell is because I referenced it from the last year when I was only talking about Blackwell and Rubin, does it make sense? So last year, we didn't have Grok. Last year, we weren't selling stand-alone CPUs. Last year, we didn't have many of the things that we have to sell now. And so it wouldn't have made sense for me to include those today and not because we didn't have those things yesterday. Does that make sense?

Somebody nod then I can continue, okay? And so therefore, a couple of things. It's only Blackwell and Rubin, it's not Fin. It's not Rubin Ultra. It's not any of those things. It's not Vera standalone, it's not Grok. So Blackwell plus Rubin, we have high confidence, strong visibility, demand, forecast, purchase orders of $1 trillion plus.

We closed businesses that we ship oftentimes, oftentimes, and we expect to close and ship more business between now and the end of 2027. We expect to close to close book and ship more business on top of this between now and 2027. And the reason for that is because we expect to be coming to work between now and the end of 2027. Now unlike other businesses, because we build and complete systems of this quality, we can actually win book, ship new business in the same quarter. Of course, you can't do that if you have to build an ASIC or obviously, if you don't see that -- if you don't see it now, you're not shipping it by the end of 2027, but that's not true for us. We built inventory. We have a pipeline of supply that -- and we have to take care of customers who come out of the blue because they're desperate for more compute. Does that make sense? And so when they're desperate for more compute and all of a sudden in last day, they say, goodness gracious, I could use more.

I would like to be able to say and we are always in a position to say, we'd be more than happy to help you. We're also working on new customers, new markets, new regions that we haven't put in here yet because we still have -- well, about 21 months to go, okay? And so I want you guys to understand what that $1 trillion. It's, by definition, going to keep growing. By definition, because what I compare it against, it will keep growing, and it will be larger than that.

A couple of things that I wanted to say also that last year was a really good year because 2025 was our year of inference, and I think we helped everybody understand that the price of the computer and the cost of the token, the price of the computer and the cost of the token are only marginally related. The price of the computer and the cost of the token. Remember, people are buying these computers to produce tokens. The effectiveness of the production of those tokens matter greatly. They're not reselling the computer. If you bought a computer and it's expensive, if you resold it and that's it, then it's expensive. But you bought a computer and it's expensive because the technology is incredible, but it produces tokens at such incredible rates, you have -- simultaneously have purchased the most expensive computer and produce the lowest-cost tokens. Does that make sense? This is what we do every day. This is our job. It is the reason why we deliver the value that we deliver, the value discrepancy that we deliver here, the 2 numbers that I just described is how we're able to secure our gross margins.

We have to deliver and we consistently deliver so much more value, which is tokens per second, which is tokens per second per watt. We deliver so much more value every single generation that customers would prefer to buy our next-generation product at a higher price than our current generation product at a lower price.

They prefer instantaneously to convert the moment that Vera Rubin comes, it is smarter to install Vera Rubins than to continue to buy Grace Blackwells. Are you guys following me? Somebody nod, okay? Because the value is better even though the price is higher. So I'm comparing these 2 systems because these are the 2 de facto systems in the world. And until you can beat these 2 systems, there's no point buying something else. And these 2 systems are incredibly hard to beat because Moore's Law doesn't give you 35x. So Moore's Law alone won't do it. Building a faster chip won't do it. You're going to have to build a faster lots of chips. And so last year was our 2025 year in inference, and I think we demonstrated our inference leadership, training, the post training to now inference. And then some of the other things that we did last year that was really great is we expanded the reach.

We expanded the number of AIs that now support our platform. Last year, 2025, we added Anthropic to our platform, which is net new. We added Meta SL, which is net new. We're still working with Meta on all of the other stuff. MetaSL is a net new entity and they have net new computing requirements. And we can all acknowledge that last year, open source software, open-source models really took off to the point where API inference service providers now see that open models probably represent -- approximately represent the second most popular AI model, meaning the large -- the first one, of course, is OpenAI into total number of tokens generated. In aggregate, open models represent number two. As you know, NVIDIA is the best platform for open models in the world. We are the standard for open models everywhere. And so number one, OpenAI, number two, all the open models, #3, Anthropic. Number four, XAI, just take your list, keep working.

I think NVIDIA's coverage of models last year increased substantially, which explains are accelerating growth at a very large number. We are already a very large company, as you know, and we're now accelerating our rate of growth is actually accelerating. And so anyways, that's -- I think about it.

One last point. We love our hyperscaler partners, and we work very, very closely with them. But it's important to understand that our relationship with hyperscalers is we're not selling or not just selling to them. We attract customers for them, having CUDA in their cloud brings all of the CUDA developers, all the AI natives, all the large companies that we work with, whenever we accelerate those large companies, those [indiscernible] small companies, we bring them, we terminate -- we have them hosted in the world CSPs. We are one of the best sales forces of the world's CSPs.

It is the reason why if you go down to the show floor, they have all of the largest booths. AWS has the largest booth here. Google Cloud has the largest booth here. Azure has the largest booth here. Oracle, giant booth here. Coreweave, big booth here. Does it make sense? Because we bring customers to them. Why are they here to talk to sell to my developers? And all of our developers only know how to program one thing. They only know how to program CUDA, and they only use CUDA X libraries. And when we help those developers integrate NVIDIA, they land on one of our CSP partners. We are one of the CSP's best sales forces, all right.

However, -- we are also seeing tremendous customer diversity outside of the CSPs. Regional clouds, industrial, enterprise on-prem when Dell and Lenovo and HP, they're all growing so fast and all the ODMs are growing so fast. A lot of that business go towards the right-hand side of that chart, the 40%. Most people see our business in the left 60%. That -- the right 40% without NVIDIA's full stack without our -- the fact that we can build [indiscernible] entire AI factory, and the fact that all of the world's open platforms run on top of NVIDIA, you have no hope addressing the 40%. So a big -- so the net of this chart is this, a big part of that 60% is NVIDIA developers landing in the cloud, 100% of the 40% is impossible without full stack, without end-to-end.

Was I successful in communicating that? It's important to understand our business. We aggregate that whole thing into what is called accelerated computing and it's probably a disservice to you. So next year, we're going to separate it out a little differently. Well, in the future, we're going to separate out a little differently, and it's going to look probably like this chart. You'll see something like hyperscalers or something like that and 60% of it. And even when you see that, remember, a lot of those customers we brought to the cloud. And then on the right-hand side, that 40% is completely impossible if you just build a chip because they don't buy chips, they buy platforms.

Three messages. All in 1 slide. which probably major brain blew up. And therefore, I did it again. Was that helpful? I should -- you know what I should have done, I should have made 3 panels or 3 slides. It would have been a 7-hour keynote, but it would have been worth it. Okay. That's it. Thank you. Questions.

We're opening up for questions now.

It's Ben Reitzes, Melius Research. Thanks for having us here for this event. It's amazing access that you guys provide. Congrats to you and the team for that. This is great. Jensen last night, when we took a picture, by the way, you all can still like that picture. I need to beat last year's record.

What picture?

We took a quick picture and I posted it, and I'm trying to beat last year's likes.

Okay. All right. All right. So was that in some vulnerable position or anything?

Let's put it this way, the camera added 10 pounds to me, but not to you. I don't know how that works. You look great. So I promised I'd ask you an inference question, and this is related. This is great, like I don't think a lot of people here get this. I think the main pushback we get is the juice worth the squeeze and will the hyperscalers have upside to their revenues for API and cloud that justify all the spend? And what is Jensen seeing? Because I have estimates for the hyperscalers and I've said there's upside to the revenues. But for now, the CapEx is 20% above their cloud API revenue. And I'm wondering what you're seeing. You've said in the past that there's this massive upside to these cash flows and from your customers, particularly hyperscalers and those that are serving Anthropic and OpenAI.

So when do we adjust those higher? I know this is a tough question for you because you got to guide for 3 or 4 other -- 5 other companies. But if we see that upside, I think your stock will behave a lot better because then we'll realize this build can keep going. So when is this inflect -- I mean we're seeing the inflection, but when is it -- what is the upside to their revenues? And how do we feel better about it?

Yes. So I wish those companies were public. And the reason for that is because then you'll see what I see. No company -- no companies in history has ever grown as a start-up company nonpublic company, as a start-up company, increased revenues by $1 billion or $2 billion a week. That's what they're experiencing right now. Now remember, just a week, the entire IT software industry is, call it, $2 trillion. That $2 trillion industry, I don't believe it's going to be disrupted. I think it's going to be transformed. I believe that every one of that $2 trillion IT industry is going to integrate a combination of OpenAI Anthropic and open models and turn them into connected with an open source software called Open Claw that we turned into an enterprise-ready version called Nemo Claw, and you have instantly an agent. 1.5 million people downloaded Open Claw and built themselves an agent. It's one line of code. And then you tell the agent to finish building itself.

So you don't -- you don't know this thing, go learn it and it goes off and learn it. And so in the future, those agents will be integrated into the IT industry. This IT industry is $2 trillion of software licenses today. it's probably going to be -- let me just pick a random number, $8 trillion that also resells an enormous amount of tokens. 100% of the world's IT industry will become resellers of OpenAI and Anthropic. Are you guys following me? No.

Take your estimates up for Open AI and Anthropic.

I believe that Anthropic and OpenAI. And of course, all of the IT company will also modify and customize their own software, their own models with open models and that's what Nemo Trans is for and that's what Nemo's for and all the -- we've created all the tools, and that's why we're working with all of them. They're all going to create agents that integrate these 3 components. And I believe they're going to grow incredibly. The time it's going to come soon. And the reason for that is you could see it in Anthropic's numbers, you could see it in OpenAI's numbers. They are growing, not -- they're growing an entire IT company in a month.

And the revenues of these AI companies. Their AI will be used by enterprise directly, but it's also going to be resold through IT companies integrated into IT companies. Does that make sense?

Yes.

Because just think of that AI is just software. Their software is going to be offered directly to enterprises, but it's also going to be integrated and become domain-specific and specialized governed, secured, easily provisioned connected to their system of records, so on and so forth. There's going to be a whole -- and that Agentic system will be rented to customers, but they still would have to consume tokens through factories. And so if it comes down through Open AI, that's terrific. It comes down through Anthropic. That's terrific. It comes down through open models, that's terrific, but they all have to have tokens generated.

So the net-net is IT companies of the past licensed software, IT companies of the future will rent tokens -- will generate tokens. Are you guys following me? Their business models will change. The companies will become bigger, their gross margins will change. Gross margin profile will change because they now have tokens in the -- they have COGS in their business model now, but they offer greater -- much, much more value. And so this is exciting for them, super exciting for them.

C.J. Muse from Cantor Fitzgerald. Thank you for hosting this event. Really appreciate it. wanted to, I guess, maybe follow up on Ben's question and think about the evolution of this chart of 60-40. You talked about Nemoclaw. And then you announced yesterday the Vera Rubin-DSX AI factory reference design, essentially providing the blueprint for your non-hyperscale customers to compete with the hyperscalers. So I'm curious, as you put it all together, you see a massive spike in token generation how you're expecting pretty much this chart to evolve over time and how we should be thinking about the different players inside there as to their relative kind of growth factors.

I think that this chart grows on both sides of it grows at similar rates approximately until the physical AI inflection happens in a few years. And so let's say, physical AI inflection happens, then the industrial side has to be done on-prem and it has to be done at the edge. It has to be done in location. It has to be done in the factory. Then all of a sudden, that 40% is likely to grow. And I think, ultimately, that 40% becomes larger. And the reason for that is because the world's industries that are related to physical AI is much, much larger than the industry is related to digital AI. Something like $70 trillion of the world's industries, 50, 60, 70 is requires physical AI because the world is happening not in our laptop, the world happens out where the world is. And so there's a lot of ADM-related businesses that simply can't be taken care of without physical AI. And so I believe and I hope that, that 40% actually becomes 70%, but both of them are going to be incredibly large because the world is going to produce tokens every single day continuously, it will not stop.

Right now, as we speak, all of our laptops, well, hopefully most of you laptops are kind of sitting idle, but in the future, the computer is going to be running 24/7 creating tokens because your agents are off doing work. Somebody -- I was reading one of the Reddit posts. Somebody's claw consumed 50 million tokens in a day. Now that sounds like a lot, but that's only $50 and if you had an agent doing productive work for $50, that's not bad. And so you could have somebody who makes a few thousand dollars a day, have a whole bunch of agents spending $50 a day, becoming a lot more productive. This is going to be the norm. I have at NVIDIA right now as we speak. And I'm hoping the person that I'm paying a couple of thousand dollars a day to is spending more than $50 a day of tokens. Are you nuts? I want you to be managing an entire fleet of agents doing your work.

And so I'm really hoping that somebody who makes $2,000 a day is spending $1,000 a day of tokens. And what I just said makes sense, and it's going to happen, and it's already happening in software companies all over the world.

Stacy Rasgon from Bernstein. I have a quick clarification [indiscernible] Colette and then Jensen, I have a question for you. Colette, just to clarify, I know you've talked about Rubin ramping in the second half. Grok sounds like it's launching in Q3. So am I correct in thinking that Rubin should launch with Grok because I don't think Grok goes stand-alone. And then Jensen, I want to ask a longer-term question from you. I really like the chart you put up the other day. It almost to be showed like sort of the extension of the spectrum of inference which drove -- which -- I mean, drove value from Grok. You used to talk about how GPUs were fully the way to go. We now see architectures like Grok are needed to sort of take advantage of that spectrum of insurance widens, low lanes becomes more important.

I guess I wanted to give me how do you see that spectrum evolving from here. Does your platform now have all the pieces that you need as we go forward over the next like several years and hopefully longer than that. What are the new types of workloads with inference that you see coming? And do you have all the pieces you need to take advantage of that? Is that something else that we still need to be keeping our eyes on as that grows?

So first, Stacy, thanks for the question regarding Grok and the LPX. We did communicate that, that would be also in the second half of this year starting, and we'll see where that looks once we get closer to the second half of the year. But it is in this current year.

It's going to say Grok shipping in Q3, I think yesterday.

Correct.

So what we're expecting. However, Verirubin is going to ship before Grok.

It will ship before?

Yes, yes. And the reason for that is because we're already in production of Vera Rubin. Systems are already going through lines and -- and so at the moment, that's the condition, right? And so -- and it's okay. It's just fine. Varirubin is extremely hard to beat even for Grok. Even adding Grok to Vera Rubin is very tough to beat varirubin. And I'm going to explain your question in a second. It turns out in computing. You have it's not completely true, but it's close to true that you have 2 types of architectures, 1 that are extremely low latency -- 1 that's extremely high throughput, 1 that's extremely low latency. And in fact, a CPU is a low latency computer and notice the size of the cache on board, the SRAM. Grok is an extreme version of that, hyperextreme version of that. where the SRAM occupies basically nearly the whole chip. And the scheduling is done completely statically, meaning the compiler figures out where the data and where the compute is and then makes them meet just in time. And the whole Grok system is like 1 giant synchronous machine. As a result, it is deterministic. It's extremely low latency. It is not easy program. It is not flexible. It's not general purpose, but it is what it is. And so what we've done is we've taken Vera Rubin which occupies yesterday, I described about 3/4 of that space, Vera Rubin is the right answer. We don't know how to make that better. If we knew how to make that better, we would have made that better. NVLink 72 and the Vera RUbin Ultra NVLink 144 and VimanLink1152, is going to keep expanding the aperture of that left-hand side where high throughput matters tremendously. We're going to add Grok, fuse it with Vera Rubin, fuse it with our GPUs and use Grok to process the very last stage of auto regressive models, which is used for language models.

That last stage is extremely bandwidth-intensive. And if we ganged up a whole bunch of SRAMs like thousands of Grok chips, okay, it's 8:1. So for that last 25% of the power and that last 25% of the use case because your data center has all kinds of different use cases. It's not just one, right? We're all using ChatGPT. We're all using it in different ways. We all have different tiers of pricing. And so we're in different bands in my graph. We're in different bands in that graph. Are you guys following me, Stacy?

So there's -- I showed the 0 tier, the free tier, good, better, best, extreme version. And so for free good, better, Vera Rubin is untouchable. We can't think of anything close by. And then for best and extreme probably the best in extreme adding Grok to that, you could increase your throughput on the best, and you could extend the extreme version even further. Now the extreme version is now introduced a new tier, but your volume because the throughput curve, your volume is so low. You can't afford to make that demand too high. So you have to set the price quite high. Does that make sense? However, there's a new class of customers who is very, very rich software engineers. They already cost so much money that if I added to them $100 a day of inference cost, token cost, I'd be more than happy to do it. If I added even $1,000 on crunch time, more than happy to do it. Does that make sense? And so I'm simply describing what's happening to a market that is, if you will, maturing. In the beginning of the market, nobody knew the technology wasn't mature and people didn't know exactly how to use it, 100% of the early inference customers were free tier. And as the technology started to reach '01 and '03, all of a sudden, the paid tier skyrocketed because people are now able to use it for something useful.

Then all of a sudden, when agents came. Now, for example, cloud code, right, Codex, those tokens are a lot more expensive than free tier, and they're a lot more expensive than $20 a month. And so that segment, we just added 2 more segments. Did you say see that? And so this is no different than iPhone in the beginning, there was only 1 version. And now there are a whole lot of versions, no different than the car industry, no different than any industry. As the market expands, the segments expand. I showed a factory that is able to produce tokens of different segments and different tiers from very, very smart, incredibly fast to high throughput free tier. And I described an architecture of AI factory architecture that allows you to address the whole thing to maximize ultimately the total revenues of the factory and we let you decide how you want to mix and match. My estimate is it's probably about 25% today for, call it, a handful of companies. you have to be one of the -- you need to have -- you need to generate a lot of tokens to make it worthwhile. And so -- and then there's a whole bunch of -- they call them inference service providers, ISPs, API service providers.

I think they could also benefit from this, okay, because they would like to have a different segmentation of token generation and so I call it a group of 10 customers and 25% of that 10 customers represents a big part of that pie, we can increase our total revenues with Grok by 2x on 25%, 2x by 25%. Does that make sense? So say, 25%.

And I mean as you continue like with new versions of Grok with new generations, so what does that do? Are you pushing that out even further? Or are you lowering the cost and increasing the demand? Like I'm just trying to get some feeling.

We're always doing 1 of 2 things. We're pushing the throughput at every tier up and we're always pushing the smartness of the AI out. And so you see the pareto. I'm always pushing it up. I actually did the transition showing you guys from hopper to Blackwell to Vera Rubin. So I'm always pushing it up, and I'm always pushing it out. Whenever I push up the production volume of your factory goes up at every price point. ISO price point, the volume goes up, okay? When I push it out, you can introduce new tiers of AI, new tiers of tokens. And therefore, you got new price point today. Price point of, call it, $6 per million tokens. That's kind of where the world is. We really like to be. I know they would all love to be $50 per million tokens but super large models, super fast.

Could you imagine a $10 trillion parameter model running at 500 tokens per second. Our engineers will pay big money for that, and I would let my engineers pay big money for that. And so that world wants to come and then the next year will come again, because the models will get bigger, they'll think more, they'll use more tools and things like that. It's just like back in the old days, I don't know how many of you are new NVIDIA in the beginning, but we had 1 product, REVA 128, Reva 128, $299. That was it. One product, those good old days. And then today, we have 5090, 5080, 2 different SKUs, 5070, 3 different SKUs, 50 -- are you guys following me? And all of these SKUs exist because the market got larger and it started the segment and people wanted different things.

The market is exactly do the same thing with tokens is getting larger and larger in different segments wanting different things. And so I need to -- we need to help the customers. We need to help our model makers produce, manufacture different segments of tokens. I know they look like numbers, but they're different AIs. Makes sense?

Got it. It does.

Yes, so incredible. So we're going to increase the throughput, and we're going to increase their pricing simultaneously, that's the benefit of Vera Rubin. And we did that every single time. We did that with Blackwell. We did that Vera Rubin. We're going to do that with Vera Rubin with Grok. We can do that with Vera Rubin with Ultra. We're just going to keep pushing that envelope and ultimately, the simplistic way is that Pareto chart because the factory is a lot of different workloads and different customers. That Pareto chart, we want to push the Pareto frontier out -- up and out, constantly up and out, constantly up and and the computer science are necessary to do that insane, the hardest problem of all.

Vivek Arya from Bank of America Securities. Thanks Jensen, thanks Colette for hosting us and for a very informative event. I wanted to ask actually 2 related questions. One is in this $1 trillion Jensen that you showed. You have other products also that you spoke about yesterday, right, the Vera CPU, right, other CPUs, you have Grok. You have a storage solution, right, CPX prior to assume. So how much of that is incremental, right? Is it a small number? Is it a medium like -- how much more is that addressable market that is not captured in this $1 trillion, assuming it is incremental to this? And then I wanted to double-click on Grok again, Jensen. I think you mentioned that it will take up 25% of the inference. That's a pretty big statement. And is it cannibalizing something? Is it -- what is kind of the value capture from Grok over time? And a lot of people ask us, is it cannibalistic of high-bandwidth memory demand?

I don't think it is, but I would love to hear your view on how to kind of put Grok in the value capture, right, part of the spectrum.

Okay. We're the only company in the world today that can optimize an architecture on AI factory across 3 memories, of course, HBM memory, but we're the first to use LPDDR5 which is extremely high bandwidth and very low power. And that changes the equation for CPUs. And the third is SRAM. We can now utilize all 3 memory types to create the perfect architecture and we are, okay? That's number one. We used to offer just MVL 72 Grace Blackwall. That was our rack. We have 1 rack. We now have 5 racks as you know. And the reason why is because can you go to the next slide? Thank you. That was previous. Yes. So let's go. No. Back. There you go. Is that the one? Yes. You see that. This is what MVL72 did. It ran that. Are you guys following me? It ran all these large language models. This is what it was designed to do. And all of our inference stack ran that.

But remember, when an agentic system is, it runs this. This is what Claude code now do. This is what codecs now do. It runs all of this. It has memory. That goes into the kv cache. It has -- and that's on the STX system. This memory has grown so much that it needs to be accelerated. It's just too much -- all of our working memories, every time we use it, the more we use it, the harder the problem we solve.

This is structured and unstructured data. This is where I started the keynote with [indiscernible]. The stuff that nobody ever talks about, which is value incredible in the future because this agent is way faster than a human and it's going to bang on that way harder and faster. Does that make sense? And then tool use, web browser. And so a web browser runs on a CPU. And so you need a CPU to give the agent access to tools. And then it spawns off subagent and who knows what this could be.

One of the sub agents could be COPT, which is GPU accelerated. There are some subagent could be Omniverse, GPU accelerated. And so we need those kind of GPUs in the data center. So the way to think about what is Vera Rubin, Vera Rubin as a system expanded tremendously because we went from processing that, which is -- it's still 90% of the workload to processing all of this. Are you guys following me? This is AI. This is where ChatGPT started, but this is where it is now. Can someone nod? You guys get it? Okay. Give me a thumbs up. All right. Thank you. And so because I'll do it again. This is like -- sometimes our keynotes run long because I look in the audience, and there's some person sitting in front of me that's like they look lost.

And so I just -- I'm going to have to do this again. I don't leave nobody behind and so this is an agent. So what just happened. In our data center. That data center doesn't want to be cobbled up Frankenstein, and wants to use -- it wants to use elegant power delivery and cooling systems. And so we took all of the computers that's here, and we put them into the MGX Rec and we designed the world the perfect processor for each 1 of these things and just rack them up.

Does it make sense? And so -- and if you're going to -- if you're going to put storage, which is right up there in here, if you're going to put that in the east, west, which is in the same aisle as the compute, you better make it so it's not a Frankenstein outfit. You can have liquid cooled in NVLink 72 racks. And then air cooled, you can't have 300 kilowatts here and then use 50 kilowatts here. It makes no sense. And so we took the whole thing and we harmonized all of it in 1 single rack architecture.

And so if you want to build a cluster to run that uses connect them all up. It's incredible. Same power delivery, same cooling system, all 100% liquid cooled, all completely optimized for the workload, all fully accelerated. And so now your question, in order to run this agent and be able to offer all the things that we were just talking to Stacy about, you would increase your CapEx, you would increase your compute spend, the GPU compute spend by 25%. And so you add Grok to 25% of the workload. And you by 8x as many chips, which is approximately the same price as the NVLink 72 racks, okay? So 25% is multiplied by 2, and that's the same as 25%, okay? And so your 25 -- your compute spend goes up by 25%. That's the first one. And that's not in the $1 trillion. And so if 100% of that $1 trillion now adds Grok, then it will be $1.25 trillion, okay? And then we also have storage, which is a lot because storage as you know, there's just a lot of storage in the world.

It is the second largest compute spend. And then the third will be CPUs for tool use. But I'm not expecting CPUs to be that much and call it because just CPUs just don't add up too much, okay? And so you could say CPU is another 5%, okay? So if you were to say, all in, the difference between Grace Blackwell racks, which as you saw was however big it was and the Vera Rubi racks, okay, if it added another 50% opportunity, I think that's probably not far off. Did I just kind of reason threw it for you? Is that -- everybody got that, okay? And so that's the fundamental difference between the Grace Blackwell go-to-market and the Vera Rubin go-to market. Because we were solving in the Grace Blackwall world, inference. We wanted to be inference king, who doesn't, right? And so that's what we're solving. Vera Rubin, we're solving for this.

That's why I said Open Claw is completely transformational. Finally, we have 1 piece of software that runs across this whole thing. One open source software, it is the operating system of this chart. It's incredible. Now every company in the world can go build this.

Joe Moore from Morgan Stanley. You're generating $1 billion every couple of days, which seems pretty good. Can you talk about the uses of that cash to build strategic advantage in your business? You're making investments in ecosystem partners. You've got purchase commitments on components, you're also returning cash to shareholders. How do you balance those priorities?

Well, the priorities have to go, number one, it has to fund our growth. And our supply chain, we work very closely with, and we're in a great place with our supply chain today for a good reason. And it's because we work very long term with them. We help them plan their business. We award businesses to them to support their growth. We even prepay and sometimes we'll even fund their capacity with them growth. But we're preparing for $1 trillion over the next -- I'll just have to be very clear for $1 trillion plus through December 25th, I think we probably shut it down at 04:00 p.m. And so through that time, Pacific Standard Time. There's a lot of caveats in there just make sure. But anyways, the plus and so that's number one. Number two, we invest in our ecosystem because, as you know, the CUDA developers and the growth of this AI natives in this stage is really important. And then after that, we're still going to generate quite amount of free cash flow. And so well, I'll let let Colette answer it. I mean we have a good plan. So go ahead.

Yes. So with the strong growth that we have at the $1 trillion going forward, that gives us, of course, a very good position in terms of free cash flows. He talked about some of them upfront in terms of making sure that our suppliers and everything that we need to do is build is an order, and that may take some prepaids.

The second thing is our investments. We are still working in terms of with our commitments that we made over the last year that we need to do in the first half of this year. But once we move forward, and complete those, we do have an opportunity for stock repurchases and focusing on returning capital to her to our shareholders. It is still a very important part of our work that we are going to do. We had a good year last year, and I think we're going to have another great year in terms of what we can do in terms of returning capital to them. Do you want to give certainty on that.

It's up to you.

Okay. Where we stand right now, it is probably not taking into account the plus sign -- not take in account the plus sign. We will probably be at 50% stock repurchases and dividend together as a percentage of our free cash flow. So that's where we're starting out. And as you can see, the plus sign is real. And then that goes give us an additional opportunity to even do more. The timing of it, again, remember looking through what we have to do here in the first half of the year with some of our existing commitments, but stay tuned.

It's Tim Arcuri at UBS. So let me preface this by saying that this is not what I think, but this is what I hear from a lot of folks out there. So there's some concern that you're capturing too much of the value of the ecosystem and you can -- and that you can't sustain these margins over time. So how do you respond to those concerns? I know you see stuff online about having to invest in the ecosystem and people sort of spin that in a negative way. So can you just talk about how you can sustain your margins?

First of all, almost everything I told you guys yesterday is a new perspective. It is not illogical. That everybody has to understand tokenomics. It is not illogical that the world needs to learn what a computer has become. If we deliver, if we continue to deliver x factors -- x factors of tokens per second per watt every year, if we continue to deliver x factors of ASP increase for them because we introduced new token segments. Customers will be more than delighted to continue to do work with us. And it is -- it's also true, and I've said it before, and the math is absolutely clear. Every CEO of every cloud service provider, I would challenge them all to go and create that chart for themselves. And I'll help them. And you pick your favorite other configuration. You pick your favorite other configuration, third-party chips, built your own chips, and you put it into that model faithfully and then you can decide would you like to have higher revenues or lower. Would you like to have higher ASPs or lower, would you like higher margins or lower because that's all it means. Look, TSMC's wafers are the highest in the world, but they're the best value in the world. And I gladly pay for it. And so the idea ASML systems are the most expensive in the world, they're worth it. There's no question about it. And so the question is simply, do you want to make more money? Or do you want to buy the lowest cost equipment? Do you want to make more money? Or do you want to buy the lowest cost equipment? That's the difference.

Now what I just said is a new concept, and I think we can all acknowledge that. I just treated a computer system. The way I treat TSMC chip factory, the way I treat ASML manufacturing equipment. And that's not the way people thought about it in the past if I have 2 CPUs, 1 of them is 256 cores, the other 1 is 256 cores. Tell me which one is the better one. Well, the cheaper one's the better one because I'm running it by the core anyways. But that's not the way tokens are created. You don't rent by the core, you monetize by the tokens per second. And so it's a different economic. Does it make sense? You're not renting cores, you're not renting nodes. You're producing tokens, which is the reason why everything changed. It was necessary to make sure that everybody understands the economics of the new world. So we are -- anybody who says that simply does not understand the business, that's all. They're trying to buy the lowest equipment, lowest cost equipment.

My equipment costs 30% cheaper. What does that mean to your factory? What does that mean to your factory? That's really the question. And so I think people -- anybody who says my chips are 50% cheaper. Put that in the context of the factory, and that person is actually demonstrating to you they don't understand AI. They're just saying somebody goes, I'm 30% cheaper, you don't understand anyone I'm 40% cheap, you don't understand AI. My chips are cheaper. You don't understand AI. I'm not talking about anybody. I was just saying. It's a theoretical comment.

Josh Buchalter from TD Cowen. Thank you for spending the morning with us and there's a lot of customers and partners that are after your time, so we appreciate it. I wanted to ask a question. You said a few times, I think, yesterday that you expect to be short capacity in the 2027. Can you elaborate on where you're seeing those shortages? And on that note, you've described yourself as the chief revenue destroyer. And Satya's made some comments about not wanting to over-index to 1 generation. There's another 1 coming very soon. Is that behavior unique to Microsoft? And are these constraints sort of protecting it.

By the way, Satya would also tell you who told him that. Exactly. I told Satya, buy what you need this year because next year, there will be something better.

So I guess my question on that is, is TSMC constraints or the capacity sort of protecting your other customers from doing that? Or do you see them holding a similar mindset as Satya's.

I think I don't want you guys to thinly slice and dice our choice of words. Is the world supply constrained at some level, yes, right? Can we all agree, saying the opposite is weird. Hi. Is the world constraint on cars? Well, you see cars in -- would I have tripled the demand? Yes. And so everything is somewhat constrained. It just depends on everything. And because we're building at such a large scale, our life is just not simplistic. It's not so simplistic as I say, "Oh, I can -- if I just solve this 1 problem, that's it." Life is good. We are working multiple dimensions across multiple suppliers and making sure that things are in harmony -- you don't have too much.

We don't have too little. We can meet our demand plus. And the reason why we want to meet our demand plus is because there's always new demand coming for the next 21 months. I got a whole bunch of new demand that's coming. And so I got to prepare for that.

And so the all kinds of parameters and not simple. And if I told you that we are supply constrained on this 1 item, then I know what you guys are going to do. You know -- so I think the system is harmonious. Nothing is too much, nothing is too little. We don't have too much power. We don't have too little power. We don't have too many construction workers. We don't have too many plumbers. We don't have too few plumbers. We don't have enough -- we don't have too many cables. We don't have too many optics. We have -- we don't have too few optics. We don't have -- are you guys following it's just kind of right there, and we'll work it every day Perfect.

Aaron Rakers with Wells Fargo. Thanks for doing this as well. I'm surprised we got to this point without this question being asked and it's more technical. There's a lot of discussion.

You know what, we're kind of like the Fed now. Did he say near or almost. And what did he mean by -- well, we've got to do all of his previous transcripts. And when did he use that word? And what here's what I know. Demand is accelerating at a very large scale. And we'll be able to support the supply.

Perfect. So I was going to ask about architecture. I've gotten a lot of questions about yesterday's presentation where CPO starts where copper ends. You outlined NVL 576, there was NVL -- or 1152 on the slide. So I'm curious of what is your current thought process around offering both. And how does that evolve as we scale to Vera Rubin ultra refinement, just curious to your thoughts.

Okay. Please treat my partners properly. They're all doing great, okay? I'm not saying anything here that suggest any of their businesses, I'm going to go the other way. All of their businesses are going to grow because of us. We're going to grow copper. We're going to grow optics tremendously. We're going to grow copper. We're going to grow optics tremendously. Now did I say something that is completely logical? The answer is yes. And let me tell you why. We should scale with copper as long -- as far as we can as long as we can, but at a meter plus or minus, it's kind of the limits of copper, okay? And so you've seen us go from NVLink 72 to now Rubin Ultra NVLink 144, right, where the back plane was designed to be able to support that, okay. So that's kind of approximately -- and we're going to keep working on our series and if we could extend it from 144 to 288, we'll be more than happy to do so because you should use copper for as long as you can because copper is just easy to manufacture. It's more reliable. We've been manufactured for a long time. Humanity has been using it for a long time. And so did I say anything that's illogical to anybody? Everybody makes sense. You should breathe air for as long as you can until you out of it. After that, we'll breathe like compressed liquid air. But until then, how about air.

It's free. We've been using it for a long time. It's safe, all right? And so one, we should scale up with copper as long as we can. As you know, we also took Ethernet to a structure cable backplane. So that's incremental growth opportunity. Did I -- isn't that right? I just said it yesterday. We're going to take the backplane of Ethernet, and we turned it into these spines because these structured cables are really easy. Now that we got -- we mastered how to use it and manufacture it is, it's a real artistry we now can create these things and you -- it's easy to maintain, it's easy to ship, easy to wire it up. You make no mistakes, right? It's fantastic. However, simultaneously, we want to scale up beyond 72 to 144, right, to 1152 and maybe even further than that someday. And there's a limit to how far copper can go. And so you could see we're 100% copper now. The next-generation ultra will have 2 options. You could copper or copper plus CPO, copper or copper plus CPO, copper or copper plus CPO -- because I have 2 options: copper plus CPO or copper. Okay. That's 1 year from now, 2 years from now, at 1152, it's all CPU because there's a limit to how far it could take copper.

And so there's a transition. However, even when MV Link is CPO and Spectrum XPO. We will still have copper for the Ethernet scale up on our racks. We will still have copper for our storage. We will -- does that make sense? Because we have 5 different racks and so the amount of copper we will use will continue to be high because even though scale up will go to CPO in 2, 3 years, the total consumption of copper connectors is going to continue to grow because our demand in our total capacity continues to grow with all these different other racks. Was I got to select the words. Yes, perfectly.

Jim Schneider, Goldman Sachs. Thanks for taking the question. You previously talked about the spectrum of token costs and very helpful to hear the 25% of that in the high tier. How do you see the market evolving over time in terms of growth rates of the lower free tier versus the high tier in a market that's been sort of predicated by big decreases in token costs coming down over time. How do you see that trending? Does that start to slow or potentially flatten out and why?

Token cost is going to keep on coming down -- can we go to the next slide, Colette. Like token cost is going to keep on coming down. every single year. This is just Grace Blackwall and then Rubin token costs will come down again and Ruben Ultra token costs will come down again, okay? Meanwhile, the token smartness the smartness per token is going to keep on going up as well as we extend that curve to the right, okay, the X-axis. Meanwhile, we're going to increase the throughput. This is everything that has to be nobody cares about tokens per second. You always have to divide it by what. And the reason for that is because your data center is only so big. Your data center, it's a gigawatt, you're not going to have 2. If it's 200 megawatt, you're not going to have 3. Does it make sense? And so you always have to normalize it. Otherwise, no architecture, you can compare nothing. And Moore's Law was always divided by something, okay? So you have to take tokens per second per one. Anybody who shows you anything else just doesn't understand anyone, okay? Or they're trying to see you somehow, all right? So that's the reason why someone analysis did it right. They did it right.

Everything was divided by one, okay? And so we're going to keep on increasing throughput. So whatever -- this is the price of a token, whatever the price -- whatever that ASP is, we increase its throughput. Whatever the ASP is, we increase the throughput. Does that make sense? And then here, whatever that segment is, we reduce the cost. Whatever that segment is, we reduce the cost. So this is kind of like this down here is essentially your segment, product segment. And that's through how many -- the volume production and that's the cost of it. These are the 2 -- that's why these 2 curves are so important. Now I combine those 2 curves, you can combine those 2 curves. If you like, but it's -- it makes your head blow up. But this curve is essentially the Pareto. This -- and we spend -- in fact, most of the world today is simply right here. This is the hopper world. You see that, Hopper is kind of right here. Blackwell extended it and added a couple of segments. And this is really valuable, and people love that because the ASP difference between here and here could be 5x, 10x makes sense, larger model and faster, okay? And so these are really valuable. Now how do I see the curve changing, demand curve changing? Yesterday, I used 25% here, 25% here, 25% here and 25%. That's all I did. But a supplier's -- a manufacturers' distribution of different product segments, just kind of depends. Do you guys see the I'm saying? It kind of depends. Ferrari is kind of all high end, nothing in the free tier. And then somebody else, right? Just depends on the brand. And I think it's going to be the same here, guys.

If your business is search, you're going to be largely free tier because nobody pays for search. So if you're a search business, you're going to be largely free tier. If you're cogeneration, if your code -- agentic code, you're going to be a lot here. If you're an enterprise worker, and the average salary of that person, let's pick a number, say, 50,000 or 70,000. You might be here to you want your product -- if your customer is that person, you want your product price somewhere here. Does that make sense? It depends on your customer and the work that you do for them. It depends on the customer, the work you do for them and the competition. Those 3 things matter. It's just exactly like products. AI tokens or products, a new commodity, and we market it as such and different suppliers, different brands, different target markets are going to have different shapes. I just simply chose an equal distribution yesterday. Makes sense?

Yes, just which segment do you see is growing faster in the future?

They're all going to grow really fast at the moment. It just -- I don't think at the moment, it just doesn't matter. They're all going to grow so fast. They're all growing exponentially at the moment, every 1 of them. We're at the beginning, right? The growth rate is divided by a very small number.

Mark Lipacis, Evercore ISI. Thanks a lot for joining the Q&A. I always love the insights Jensen, our field work is telling us that AI engineers are getting excited about state space models because they address memory requirements. And in your keynote, you showed [indiscernible] 3 is benchmarking in 1 of the top models and I believe that's a hybrid mixture of experts, state-based model. And I'm wondering ...

Impressive. I'm was trying to ...

Thank you. Jensen. In the new AI workloads have led to the adoption of different AI models.

That was my darth vader imitator. Impressive. Young Jedi.

So the question is, is Agentic AI creating a new demand -- a need for a new AI model. Is that what you're doing with Nemotron and the hybrid, what does space get you for Nematron-3I that pure mixture of experts did it? And what are the implications on the competitive environment for NVIDIA if there's this transition to a new kind of AI model?

We run all AI models, whether it's full transformer discrete tokens, continuous diffusion state space, hybrid, our architecture's beauty is that it does it all. For example, Grok do diffusion models. But we can do everything. Does that make sense? And so I'm picking on rock, not because I'm picking on drug, it belongs to me now, so I can say these things. And so but every architecture has its place. The reason why NVIDIA is so versatile and the reason why it's used so freely everywhere is because irrespective of what innovation your research scientist come up with tomorrow, I promise you it's going to run great on CUDA. I just promise you that. And the reason for that is because we know we have all of the necessary computing elements to do all of it, okay? And so it's Nemotron-3I was designed so that you can deal with extremely long context. And in time, the AI models, we're going to -- you're going to have conversations with your AI hopefully for as long as you shall live.

And so the question is how do you deal with context how do you deal with the relevant conversational memory so that on the 1 hand, if you memorize everything, and we talk about something over time, which version of that memory do you pull back. When you have too much memory, over time, it could become garbled. And maybe a reset is helpful. These are research areas, long memory areas or really research areas. But the hybrid architecture, I think, is going to be a very major thing because it allows you to deal with extremely long context and not have to suffer the quadratic explosion in computation. And that's the reason why we invented it and we put it out in open source, and it could -- we love for everybody to use it. And so it's intended to advance AI not to compete with anybody. We don't need to. We just -- we just want to advance AI.

Thank you, Jensen. So I'm trying to understand how concentrated your downstream like the AI market is and is going to be and so you have this chart showing 60% is hyperscalers. But I'm kind of thinking the other 40%, the majority of that is Tier 2 cloud and a lot of them are actually reselling or renting their capacity to hyperscalers or to the frontier labs. So if you take hyperscalers plus frontier labs, it might be like 80% of people actually using the infrastructure that is being deployed. So that's an element of concentration and then these models like Anthropic models, the Open AI models, et cetera, seems to be like a very small handful that are really at the frontier. And so do you think that's the right description of the situation today? How do you see that evolving? And maybe what does that mean in terms of right to make money in the value chain and development and like further acceleration of AI?

Okay. So I would slice it into 3 dimensions, okay? And as you were talking, I simplified it as much as I can into a cube into 3 dimensions. The first dimension is what is the end model being run? And I said earlier, OpenAI is the largest. The second largest by category is basically all the open models. In aggregate, is by definitely solidly #2. And then number 3 would be Anthropic and then so on and so forth, okay? And so -- and that -- and the tail is actually -- is fairly long, okay? And so if you look at the world of model consumption, even just language, that's the way to think about it. And we run all of them. We're in all of them. That's 1 dimension. In that sub dimension of models, you have to decide to add also physical AI models, which is robotics, like all the robots you saw, they're not running they're running vision language action models. And those models are different than just language models. And for example, the control of motors is continuous. It's not -- it's not like a character. It's not like words, it's continuous.

And so physics is continuous. Biology has based geometry because things chemicals, a base geometry, okay? And so there's a lot of different types of models. But point being that you have to first think about the different types of models being run, and that's helpful to how you think about the write to -- write to business. The second dimension is are they -- are the computing -- depending on the way that the companies are structured and their intentions or interests, they are either companies that want to build their own chips, and we have to compete with companies that want to host NVIDIA customers in their cloud and obviously, CUDA only runs on NVIDIA CUDA and then are they companies like, for example, NCPs, where they need us -- they can't just buy chips, they really have to buy systems. And so they're really infrastructure customers. Or are they companies that want to build on-prem. Therefore, my distribution channel goes through Dell and HP and Lenovo because it has to integrate a whole bunch of other enterprise computing components and Dell and HP, they don't build their own chips. Or are they at the edge and maybe their radio networks, maybe the robotic systems or self-driving cars or satellites and so on and so forth, doesn't make sense.

Now you got to decide where where is the computing being done okay? And so there's kind of the several dimensions, I guess, you could think about it. And when you're done subdividing all of that, you come back to the chart that I showed you is 60%, 40%. Within that 60%, 40%, 40% of it basically, they need computing. It doesn't matter what models they run it could be open models could be Anthropic models. The fact that NVIDIA supports confidential computing makes it possible for Open AI to run on the right side at all. we make it possible for Anthropic the right to run on the right side at all because we have confidential computing. That side, they want entire platforms, they want confidential computing.

They want computers at different parts of the world, not just in the cloud. Even in the cloud, we compete with some part, but we also bring customers to the other part. And so some part of that chart of 60%, we have to compete. And our job is just to deliver that chart better than anybody else in the world, and we're doing very, very well, and we're actually increasing our position day in and day out. And then the other part, we bring customers to them. They're just grateful.

Makes sense? So I took all of that dimensionality and I compressed it into basically is 2 slices of the pie. And so that compression, I think if you test against, do they design the -- do we -- does NVIDIA compete with them on chips? Okay, there you go. That's interesting. And then you got to figure out where are we in our position and what's our opportunity and so on and so forth. I don't think OCI will design their own chips. I don't think it's sensible for them to do it. Obviously, Core's not going to design their own chips. And so there, we -- so where do we compete and where do we bring the cloud service provider customers? And their cloud revenues, a lot of them, a lot -- a big part of it, obviously, I nearly 100% of that is because of NVIDIA, right, with OpenAI.

We'll take our last question.

It's Timm Schulze-Melander from Rothschild & Co Redburn. Maybe just a question around how you run the company, Jensen. And looking ahead, this 12-monthly flywheel is part of your competitive advantage. But when I look at headcount, actually, it seems to be growing very slowly, relatively slowly. And yet the undertaking that you are going for is growing much more rapidly than that. How do you manage that or prepare for that going forward? And how do you manage maybe the risk that, that could pose to your business?

Yes. As you know, I have 60 people on my direct team. And the reason why we need 60 people is because the company's architecture was designed to deliver on this architecture on the products. The organization, the architecture of a company should reflect the products they build. Every company should not look -- have the same business org. And I look across and I said, "Oh, look, they have a business unit here. They have a business unit there. They're a business unit there and yet they want to build what we want to build." What you build as a company, for example, the way -- not because I've seen it, I've read about it. The way you build a Ferrari and the way we build it a Ford is very different. In 1 case, you move the car in the other case, you move to people, okay? And so the car stay stationary. And so it depends on the results of what you want to create, the architecture should reflect it. If you look across my management team, every aspect of the technology necessary to build Vera Rubin's entire factory is right there, 100%. Everybody is representing. All of the expertise sitting at the table, making a decision together. And the second thing is we had the discipline to develop the entire software stack. You can't build what we build on a yearly basis if you can't bring it up. Have you guys following me? It's very logical. How do you test it if you can't bring it up? And if you're cobbling up new technology from everybody else, how do you bring it up once a year. It's just not even practical. It's not possible. So we align all of our chips to the platforms -- all 7 chips, they only have 1 tape-out schedule. I don't cobble up everybody's tape-out schedule and figure out when the system comes. The system comes when the system needs to come, and everybody aligns to it. And the software stack, we completely own every piece. The storage, that's the reason why we developed it, networking, of course, all of the even the factory operating system we call Dynamo, we created everything.

So that we could deliver every single benchmark, test everything to the limit, test for reliability, test for -- and the reason why NVIDIA built NemoTron is so that we could do pretraining post training and now we can do inference. We own all of the software so that we can bring up all of the systems on an annual basis, which basically says you're bringing up all the time. If you don't own everything, you have no shot, 0% chance. People are talking about their new GPU, but where's their scale up fabric coming from? And how is that going to work? And that's just -- I just gave you 2 examples. That whole agentic system that we were talking about earlier, that's the future computer. And so that's really what we -- the company's organization, the company's mission, the company's capabilities are all aligned to me delivering the promise that I just delivered to the marketplace. And that's why we're able to keep doing it. A PowerPoint slide is not going to deliver that system. And a PowerPoint slide with 2 bar charts is not going to convince somebody to give you $50 billion. It doesn't make any sense. And to engineer it all into existence inside the data center, by the time that you bring it up, we're already 2 clicks down the road. So this is the pace that we put the whole industry on, and it is, frankly, extremely, extremely hard. And we could do it, but that's because of all the things that I just described.

You also know that every one of our systems is CUDA compatible. So on day 1, I've got yesterday software that runs perfectly on this one. I own all the scale-up switch, I own all the scale-out switch. I own all the software, do I not? So on day 1, I take yesterday's software and put it on the new system. If it doesn't work, what's the point? Then once we get everything brought up because we own all the software stack, then we can take it to the limit. And so having CUDA compatibility, we have this thing called DOCA compatibility. We own all the compilers, we own all the software stack, really, really important.

You can't outsource that to other people. Somebody else is building it on your behalf. That is how do you bring up a system. They're not going to bring up your system for you. They're not going to qualify for you. And so. That's it. Can we take 1 more question? Is that okay? Can you guys tolerate one more question? I'm enjoying it so much. Let me just -- somebody is going to ask me a question when I had to choose the precise word hair or did he say hair or a hare. That's materially different.

Thank you for extending the session and squeezing me in. Jensen, I just want to clarify 1 thing.

Here it comes. Oh dear, I changed my mind. I changed my mind. Everybody have a good GTC.

Quick clarification. Does the $1 trillion plus include Rubin Ultra or not? And my question is...

No, I got to stop you right there. Thank you. No, no. Absolutely not. And yes, absolutely not.

Okay. My question is we talked a lot about inferencing at this event. I just -- I was hoping that you could spend a couple of minutes on training in terms of how do you see the compute intensity growing? What will drive in your view over the next few years? Is it still the larger and larger models? Or is there something else on the horizon that you see? And I guess if you take a 3- to 5-year view, what's your view on training versus inferencing mix in terms of compute demand.

Training went from pretraining to post-training, pre-training is basically memorization, memorization and generalization. The more -- the more you memorize and generalize, the better foundation you have. Once you have that foundation, that's why it's called pretraining. It's kind of like AI kindergarten, okay? It's more than kindergarten, but AI high school. And so now you have the pretraining. You have the basic vocabulary and grammar and a lot of hidden reasoning capability that when I teach your new skills, you'll even understand it. So now when I tell you to go solve a math problem or right code or try to write code, you actually understood what I meant. If you don't even understand what I meant, how can you possibly even attempt to doing it. And so -- so pre-training does that. Post-training teaches all kinds of skills, okay? And reinforcement learning reinforcement learning with executable grounding, reinforcement learning, verifiable feedback, a whole bunch of technology techniques for batch-oriented reinforcement learning, tool use. I mean, the list goes on and on, okay? Structured-based APIs, unstructured based tool use. I mean there's just -- there's a whole lot of domains. And that part, computing intensity, I'm going to guess, probably million times, more than pretraining. I'm probably off by a factor of 1.2, but it's a lot. And the reason for that is because there's a lot of skills to go learn and all these skills, the rollout is really, really long. And so the models have to get larger and larger. When you get good at these, when you got at these, you take all of that synthetic data and some of it, you're going to push back to pretraining next time. And so yesterday's pretraining start all from Internet data.

Today's pretraining is mostly Internet data. In a couple of generations, pretraining will be mostly synthetic data. Meanwhile, you're adding multimodality to it. Meanwhile, you're adding motion to it. Long rollout physical actions to it. And the reason for that is because there's a lot of common sense that's cognitively logic related that if you were able to interact in the physical world, you could deal with that concept a lot easier even in the abstract world, okay? Because you actually have grounded experience in the physical world. And so notice the amount of computation that I just described, we're 1 million -- 1 billion times future amount of computing necessary for training. And then after that, continuous learning. So almost everybody's model will be lastly trained, fine-tuned so that it could also be memorized and generalized per person. And so in the future, basically, where inference starts and ends and where training starts and ends will come blurrier and blurrier. Just kind of when are you learning and when are you applying your wisdom? Well, in most people's cases is continuous now. And so I think that kind of gives you the 3 phases of it.

And with respect to inference versus training, let me tell you my hope. My hope is that 99% of the world's compute goes towards inference. And the reason for that is because inference is where we translate tokens generated to economics. Nobody pays you for learning. Nobody pays for training, you pay for training. I want the world to be able to use these tokens for valuable outcome, impactful outcome for health care, for manufacturing, for financial services or -- right? For engineering, for right, you name it, isn't that right? And so we want the world that's our hope is that 99% -- and if our dreams come true, 100% of the future tokens are going towards economic benefits while the AI models are learning.

And so -- it's -- there's a really good reason why NVIDIA went all in on inference last year. And the reason for that is because we see this future where inference in training and pretraining and learning and all that is just 1 big continuum. It's not as of -- go back and read 2 years ago, the story is people write, NVIDIA really good at training, inference is easy any company could do that. And therefore, do you guys remember that. Inference is super hard. Look at this chart. It's super hard, it's going to get way harder Inference is thinking, it's working, it's doing things. How could that be easy? I thought my life was easy pre high school, not post-high school. Pre-high score super hard. After that, it was -- after that was super hard. And so I think people just got it all completely backwards. And they just -- they wanted to make up stories that rationalized their opportunity, which is fine. But you had a reason about it from first principles. And I take a long time answering questions for you guys instead of a short, highly curated, super well-selected precisely adjusted verbs announced. And the reason for that is because I want you guys to learn how to reason through these things. So when you see it yourself, you go, no, that's not making sense or if that makes sense or we could -- because you're analysts, you need to be able to understand these things.

Okay. All right, guys. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming to GTC.

Welcome to the stage, NVIDIA Founder and CEO, Jensen Huang.

Welcome to GTC. I just want to remind you, this is a tech conference. All these people are lining up so early in the morning, all of you in here, it's great to see you. GTC. GTC, we're going to talk about technology. We're going to talk about platforms. NVIDIA has 3 platforms. You think that we mostly talk about one of them. It's related to CUDA-X. Our systems is another platform. And now we have a new platform called AI factories. We're going to talk about all of them. And most importantly, we're going to talk about ecosystems.

But before I start, let me thank our pregame show hosts. I thought they did a great job. Sara Guo of Conviction; Alfred Lin, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA's first venture capitalist. Gavin Baker, NVIDIA's first major institutional investor. These 3 people are deep in technology, deep in what's going on. And of course, they have just a really broad reach of technology ecosystem. And then, of course, all of the VIPs that I hand selected to join us today, All-Star team. I want to thank all of you for that.

I also want to thank all the companies that are here. NVIDIA, as you know, is a platform company. We have technology, we have our platforms. We have rich ecosystem. And today, there are probably 100% of the $100 trillion of industry here, 450 companies sponsored this event. I want to thank you, 1,000 technical sessions, 2,000 speakers. This is -- this conference is going to cover every single layer of the 5-layer cake of artificial intelligence from land, power and shell, the infrastructure to chips to the platforms, the models and of course, the most important and ultimately, what's going to take -- get this industry taken off is all of the applications.

But it all began here. This is the 20th anniversary of CUDA. We've been working on CUDA for 20 years. For 20 years, we've been dedicated to this architecture, this revolutionary invention SIMT, single instruction, multi-threaded, writing scaler code could spun off into multi-threaded application, much, much easier to program than SIMD. We recently added tiles so that we could help people program Tensor Cores and the structures of mathematics that are so foundational to artificial intelligence today. thousands of tools and compilers and frameworks and libraries in open source, there's a couple of hundred thousand public projects. CUDA literally is integrated into every single ecosystem.

This chart basically describes 100% of NVIDIA's strategies. You've been watching me talk about this slide from the very beginning. And ultimately, the single hardest thing to achieve is the thing on the bottom, installed base. It has taken us 20 years to now have built up hundreds of millions of GPUs and computing systems around the world that run CUDA. We are in every cloud, we're in every computer company. We serve just about every single industry. The installed base of CUDA is the reason why the flywheel is accelerating. The installed base is what attracts developers who then creates new algorithms that achieves a breakthrough. For example, deep learning. There are so many others. Those breakthroughs leads to entirely new markets, which builds new ecosystems around them with other companies that join, which creates a larger installed base.

This flywheel is now accelerating. The number of downloads of NVIDIA libraries is incredibly accelerating. It's at a very large scale and growing faster than ever. This flywheel is what makes this computing platform able to sustain so much applications, so many new breakthroughs. But most importantly, it also enables these infrastructures to have extraordinarily useful life. And the reason for that is very obvious. There are so many applications that you can run on NVIDIA CUDA. We support the entire -- every single phase of the AI life cycle. We address every single data processing platform. We accelerate scientific principal solvers of all different kinds. And so the application reach is so great that once you install NVIDIA GPUs, the useful life of it is incredibly high. It is also one of the reasons why Ampere that we shipped them some 6 years ago, the pricing of Ampere in the cloud is going up.

And so all of that is made possible fundamentally because the installed base is high, the flywheel is high, the developer reach is great. And when all of that happens, and we continuously update our software, the computing cost declines. The combination of accelerated computing speeding up applications tremendously. Meanwhile, as we continue to nurture and continue to update software over its life, not only do you get the first-time pop, you get the continuous cost reduction of accelerated computing over time. And we're willing to nurture, willing to support every single one of these GPUs in the world because they're all architecturally compatible. We're willing to do so because the installed base is so large, if we release a new optimization, it benefits millions. This applies to everybody in the world.

This combination of dynamics is what makes the NVIDIA architecture expand its reach, accelerating its growth, at the same time, driving down computing cost, which ultimately encourages new growth. So CUDA is at the center of it. But our journey to CUDA actually started 25 years ago. GeForce, I know how many of you grew up with GeForce. GeForce is NVIDIA's greatest marketing campaign. We attract future customers starting long before you could afford to pay for it yourself. Your parents paid. Your parents paid for you to be NVIDIA customers. And every single year, they paid up year after year after year until someday you became an amazing computer scientist and became a proper customer, a proper developer. But this is the house that GeForce made.

25 years ago, we started our journey, which led to CUDA. 25 years ago, we invented the programmable shader, a perfectly unobvious invention to make an accelerator programmable, the world's first programmable accelerator, the pixel shader. 25 years ago that led us to explore further and further 20 years later, 5 years later, the invention of CUDA. One of the biggest investments that we made, and we couldn't afford it at the time and it consumed the vast majority of our company's profits was to take CUDA on the backs of GeForce to every single computer. We dedicated ourselves to create this platform because we felt so much -- we felt so strongly about its potential. But ultimately, the company's dedication to it despite the hardships in the beginning, believing it every single day for 13 generations or 20 years, we now have CUDA installed everywhere. The pixel shader led to, of course, the revolution of GeForce.

And then 10 years ago, we introduced -- about 10 years ago, what is it, 8 years ago, we introduced RTX, a complete redesign of our architecture for the modern era of computer graphics. GeForce brought CUDA to the world. GeForce, therefore, enabled Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever and Geoff Hinton, Andrew Ng and so many others to discover that the GPU could be their friend in accelerating deep learning. It started the big bang of AI. 10 years ago, we decided that we would fuse programmable shading and introduced 2 new ideas, ray tracing, hardware ray tracing, which is incredibly hard to do and a new idea at the time, imagine about 10 years ago, we thought that AI would revolutionize computer graphics. Just as GeForce brought AI to the world, AI is now going to go back and revolutionize how computer graphics is done all together.

Well, today, I'm going to show you something of the future. This is our next generation of graphics technology. We call it neural rendering, the fusion of 3D graphics and artificial intelligence. This is DLSS 5. Take a look at it.

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Is that incredible? Computer graphics comes to life. Now what did we do? We fused controllable 3D graphics, the ground truth of virtual worlds, the structured data. Remember this word, the structured data of virtual worlds, of generated worlds. We combine 3D graphics, structured data with generative AI, probabilistic computing. One of them is completely predictive, the other one, probabilistic, yet highly realistic. We combine these 2 ideas, controlled through structured data, controlled perfectly and yet generating at the same time. And as a result, the content is beautiful, amazing as well as controllable. This concept of fusing structured information and generative AI will repeat itself in one industry after another industry after another industry. Structured data is the foundation of trustworthy AI.

Well, this is going to scare you a little bit. I'm going to flip the slide and don't gasp. So we're going to go through the schematic for the rest of the time. This is my best slide. Every time I asked the team, what's my best slide? Repeatedly, this was it. They say, don't do it, Jensen, don't do it. I said, no. These seats are free for some of you. So this is your price of mission. So this is structured data. You've heard of it, SQL, Spark, pandas, Velox, some of these really, really important, very large platforms, Snowflake, Databricks, EMR, Amazon EMR, Azure Fabric, Google Cloud, BigQuery. All of these platforms are processing data frames. These data frames are giant spreadsheets, and they hold all of life's information. This is the structured data, the ground truth of business. This is the ground truth of enterprise computing.

Well, now we're going to have AI use structured data. And we better accelerate the living daylights out of it. It used to be okay, and we would -- of course, we would accelerate structured data so that we could do more, we could do it more cheaply, we could do it more frequently per day and keep the company running at a much more synchronized way. However, in the future, what's going to happen is these data structures are going to be used by AI, and AI is going to be much, much faster than us. Future agents are going to use structured databases as well. And then, of course, the unstructured database, the generative database. This database represents the vast majority of the world, vector databases, unstructured data, PDFs, videos, speeches, all of the world's information, about 90% of what's generated every single year is unstructured data.

Until now, this data has been completely useless to the world. We read it. We put it into our file system, and that's it. Unfortunately, we can't query it. We can't search for it. It's hard to do that. And the reason for that is because there's no easy indexing of unstructured data. You have to understand its meaning, its purpose. And so now we have AI do that. Just as AI was able to solve multi-modality perception you can -- and understanding, you can use that same technology, multimodality perception and understanding to go read a PDF to understand its meaning. And from that meaning, embed it into a larger structure that we can search into, we can query into.

NVIDIA created 2 foundational libraries, just like we created RTX for 3D graphics. We created cuDF for data frames, structured data. We created cuVS for vector stores, semantic data, unstructured data, AI data. These 2 platforms are going to be 2 of the most important platforms in the future. Super excited to see its adoption throughout the network, this complicated network of the world's data processing systems. And the reason for that is because data processing has been around a long time. And therefore, so many different companies and platforms and services, it has taken us a long time to integrate deeply into this ecosystem. I'm super proud of the work that we're doing here.

And then today, we're announcing several of them. IBM, the inventor of SQL, One of the most important domain-specific languages of all time is accelerating watsonx.data with cuDF. Let's take a look at it.

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NVIDIA accelerates data processing in the cloud. We also accelerate data processing on-prem. As you know, Dell is the world-leading computer systems maker, and they also are one of the world's leading storage providers. And they worked with us to create the Dell AI data platform that integrates cuDF and cuVS to create an accelerated data platform, well, for the era of AI. And this is an example of what they did with NTT DATA, huge speed up. This is cloud -- Google Cloud. And Google Cloud, as you know, we've been working with Google Cloud for a very long time. We accelerate Google's Vertex AI. We now accelerate BigQuery, really important framework and really important platform. And this is an example of our work together with Snapchat, where we reduced their cost of computing by nearly 80%.

When you accelerate data processing, when you accelerate computing, you get the benefit of speed, you get the benefit of scale. But most importantly, you also get the benefit of cost. And so all of those come together as one. It was originally called Moore's Law. Moore's Law was about getting performance doubling every couple of years. It's another way of saying, so long as the price remains about the same and most computers remained about the same, you're also getting twice the performance every year or you're reducing the cost of computing every single year. Well, Moore's Law has run out of steam. We need a new approach. Accelerated computing allows us to take these giant leaps forward.

And as you will see later, because we continue to optimize the algorithms, and NVIDIA is an algorithm company. As we continue to optimize the algorithms and because our reach is so large and our installed base is so large, we can reduce the computing cost, increasing the scale, increasing the speed for everybody continuously. This is Google Cloud. You can see this pattern I just mentioned. I just wanted to show you 3 versions of it. NVIDIA built the accelerated computing platform, has a bunch of libraries on top. I gave you 3 examples. RTX is one of them, cuDF is another, cuVS, and we'll show you a few more. These libraries sit on top of our platform. But ultimately, we integrate into the world's cloud services, into the world's OEMs and together and other platforms that I'll show you, together, we're able to reach the world.

This pattern, NVIDIA, Google Cloud, Snapchat will repeat over and over again and it kind of looks like this. And so this is one example, NVIDIA with Google Cloud. We accelerate Vertex AI. We excel at BigQuery. We accelerate -- I'm super proud of the work that we've done with JAX and XLA. We are incredible on PyTorch. We're the only accelerator in the world that's incredible on PyTorch and incredible on JAX and XLA. And the customers that we support, the Baseten, the CrowdStrike, PUMA, Salesforce, they're not our customers, but their customers, developers of ours that we've integrated the NVIDIA technologies into that we can then land on the cloud.

Our relationship with cloud service providers are essentially us bringing customers to them. We integrate our libraries, we accelerate workloads, and we land those customers in the cloud. And so as you could see, most of our cloud service providers love working with us, and they're always asking us to land the next customer on their cloud. And I just want to let you know, there are a lot of customers. We're going to accelerate everybody. And so there will be lots and lots of customers and we'll be able to land in your cloud. Just be patient with us.

And so this is Google Cloud. This is AWS. We've been working with AWS a long time. And one of the areas -- one of the things I'm super excited about this year is we're going to bring OpenAI to AWS. And so it's going to drive enormous consumption of cloud computing at AWS. It's going to expand the reach and expand the compute of OpenAI. And as you know, they are completely compute constrained. And so AWS, we accelerate EMR, we accelerate SageMaker, we accelerate Bedrock. NVIDIA is integrated really deeply into AWS. They were our first cloud partner, Microsoft Azure. NVIDIA's A100 supercomputer was the first one we built was for NVIDIA. The first one we installed was at Azure. And that led to the big successful partnership with OpenAI. But we've been working with Azure for quite a long time. We accelerate Azure Cloud. Now it's their AI foundry, we partner deeply with. We accelerate Bing Search. We work with them on Azure regions.

This is one of the areas that is incredibly important as we continue to expand AI throughout the world. One of the capabilities that we offer is confidential computing that in confidential computing, you want to make sure that even the operator cannot see your data. Even the operator cannot touch or see your models. Confidential computing NVIDIA's GPUs is the first ones in the world to do that. It's now able to support confidential computing and protected deployment of these very valuable OpenAI models and Anthropic models throughout clouds and different regions and all because of our confidential computing. Confidential computing is super important.

And here's an example where we have different customers that we work with. Synopsys, a great partner of ours, who are accelerating all of their EDA and CAE workflows. And then we landed at Microsoft Azure. We were Oracle's first AI customer. Most people would have thought we were their first supplier. We were their first supplier also, but we were their first AI customer. I'm quite proud of the fact that I explained AI clouds to Oracle for the first time, and we were their first customer. Since then, they've really taken off. We've landed a whole bunch of our partners there, Cohere and Fireworks and of course, very famously, OpenAI. A great partnership with CoreWeave. They're the world's first AI native cloud, a company that was built with only one singular purpose to provision, to host GPUs as the era of accelerated computing showed up and to host for AI clouds. They've got some fantastic customers, and they're growing incredibly.

One of the platforms that I'm quite excited about is Palantir and Dell. The 3 of our companies have made it possible to stand up a brand-new type of AI platform, the Palantir Ontology platform and AI platform. And we could stand up these platforms in any country, in any air-gapped region, completely on-prem, completely on site, completely in the field. AI could be deployed literally everywhere. Without our confidential computing capability, without our ability to build an end-to-end system as well as offer the entire accelerated computing and AI stack from data processing, whether it's vectors or structures, all the way to AI, it wouldn't have been possible.

I wanted to show you these examples. This is our special working relationship with the world's cloud service providers. And many -- well, all of them are here, and I get the benefit of seeing them during booth tour, and it's just so incredibly exciting. I just want to thank all of you for the hard work. What NVIDIA has done is this. And you're going to see this theme over and over again. NVIDIA is vertically integrated, the world's first vertically integrated but horizontally open company. And the reason that's necessary is very simple. Accelerated computing is not a chip problem. Accelerated computing is not a systems problem. Accelerated computing has a missing word. We just never say it anymore. Application acceleration. If I could make a computer run everything faster, that's called a CPU. But that's run out of steam.

The only way for us to accelerate applications going forward and continue to bring tremendous speed up, tremendous cost reduction is through application or domain-specific acceleration. I dropped that phrase in the front, and therefore, it just became accelerated computing. And that is the reason why NVIDIA has to be library after library, domain after domain, vertical after vertical. We are a vertically integrated computing company. There is no other way. We have to understand the applications. We have to understand the domain. We have to understand fundamentally the algorithms, and we have to figure out how to deploy the algorithm in whatever scenario it wants to be deployed, whether it's a data center, cloud, on-prem at the edge on a robotic system, all of those computing systems are different.

And finally, the systems and chips. We are vertically integrated. What makes it incredibly powerful and the reason why you saw all the slides is because NVIDIA is horizontally open. We'll work and integrate NVIDIA's technology into whatever platform you would like us to integrate into. We offer you the software, we offer you libraries. We integrate with your technology so that we can bring accelerated computing to everybody in the world. Well, this GTC is really a great demonstration of that. Most of the time, most of the time, you'll see me talk about these verticals, and I'll use some examples. But in every single case, whether it's automotive -- by the way, financial services, the largest percentage of attendees at this GTC is from the financial services industry. I know, I'm hoping it's developers, not traders.

Guys, here's one thing I wanted to say. And so in the audience represents NVIDIA's ecosystem, upstream of our supply chain and downstream of our supply chain. And we work -- we think about our supply chain upstream and downstream. And it's just so exciting that our entire upstream supply chain this last year, irrespective of whether you're a 50-year-old company, we have 70-year-old companies. We have a 150-year-old company who are now part of NVIDIA's supply chain and partnering with us, either upstream or downstream. And last year, you had your record year. Did you not? Congratulations. We're on to something here. This is the beginning of something very, very big.

And so if you look at accelerated computing, we've now set the computing platform. But in order for us to activate those computing platforms, we need to have domain-specific libraries that solve very important problems in each one of the verticals that we address. You see us addressing every single one of this, autonomous vehicles, our reach, our breadth, our impact, incredible. We have a track on that. Financial services, I just mentioned. Algorithmic trading is going from classical machine learning with human feature engineering called the quants, did that, to now supercomputers studying massive amounts of data, discovering insight and discovering patterns by itself. And so this is going through its deep learning and its transformer moment. Health care is going through their ChatGPT moment, some really exciting work that we're there. We have a great keynote track here. We have a great keynote track Kimberly Powell, a great keynote track for health care. We're talking about AI physics or AI biology for drug discovery, AI agents for customer service and support of diagnosis. And of course, physical AI, robotic systems.

All these different vectors of AI have different platforms that NVIDIA provides. Industrial, we are completely resetting and starting the largest build-out of human history. And most of the world's industries, building AI factories, building chip plants, building computer plants are represented here today. Media and entertainment, gaming, of course, real-time AI platform so that we could translation and broadcast support and live games and live video, enormous amount of it will be augmented with AI. We have a platform called Holoscan. Quantum, there are 35 different companies here building with us the next generation of quantum GPU hybrid systems, retail and CPG, using NVIDIA for supply chain, using -- creating agentic shopping systems. AI agents for customer support, a lot of work being done here, $35 trillion industry. Robotics, $50 trillion industry in manufacturing.

NVIDIA has been working in this area for a decade now, building 3 computers, the fundamental computers necessary to build robotic systems. We are integrated with, working with literally every single company that we know of building robots. We have 110 robots here at the show and then telecommunications. About as large as the world's IT industry, about $2 trillion. We see, of course, base stations everywhere. It's one of the world's infrastructures. It was the infrastructure of the last generation of computing. That infrastructure is going to get completely reinvented.

And the reason for that is very simple. That base station, which is -- it does one thing, which is base station, is going to be an AI infrastructure platform in the future. AI will run at the edge. And so lots and lots of great discussion there. And our platform there is called Aerial, our AI RAN, big partnership with Nokia, big partnership with T-Mobile and many others.

At the core of our business, everything that I just mentioned, computing platforms, but very importantly, our CUDA-X libraries. Our CUDA-X libraries is the algorithm, the algorithms that NVIDIA invents. We are an algorithm company. That's what makes us special. That's what makes it possible for me to be able to go into every single one of these industries, imagine the future and have the world's best computer scientists describe and solve problems, refactor it, reexpress it and turn it into a library. We have so many. I think we have -- at this show, we are announcing 100 libraries, 70 libraries, maybe 40 models. And that's just at the show. We're updating these all the time. We're updating them all the time.

The libraries is the crown jewels of our company. It is what makes it possible for that platform, the computing platform to be activated in service of solving a problem, making impact. One of the biggest -- one of the most important libraries that we ever created, cuDNN, CUDA deep neural networks. It completely revolutionized artificial intelligence, caused a big bang of modern AI. Let me show you a short video about CUDA-X.

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Everything you saw was a simulation. Some of it was principal solvers. Fundamental physics solvers. Some of it was AI surrogates, AI physical models and some of it was physical AI robotics models. Everything was simulated. Nothing was animated, nothing was articulated. Everything was completely simulated. That is what fundamentally NVIDIA does. It is through the connection of understanding of the algorithms with our computing platforms that we're able to open up to unlock these opportunities. NVIDIA is a vertically integrated computing company with open horizontal integration with the world. So that's CUDA-X.

Well, just now you saw a whole bunch of companies. You saw Walmart and there's L'Oreal and incredible companies, established companies, JPMorgan and Roche. And these are companies that have defined society to today. Toyota is here. These are some of the largest companies in the world. It is also true that there's a whole bunch of companies you've never heard of. These are companies, we call them AI natives, a whole bunch of small companies. The list is gigantic. I couldn't -- this is just a little tiny bit of it. And I couldn't decide whether to show you more or show you less. And so I made it so that you couldn't see any. And nobody's feelings are hurt. However, inside this list are a bunch of brand-new companies.

There are companies like, for example, you might have heard a couple of them, OpenAI, Anthropic, but there's a whole bunch of others. There's a whole bunch of others, and they serve different verticals. Something happened in the last 2 years, particularly this last year. We've been working with the AI natives for a long time. And this last year, it just skyrocketed. I'll explain to you why it happened. This industry has skyrocketed, $150 billion of investment into venture investment into start-ups, the largest in human history. This is also the first time that the scale of the investments went from millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars to hundreds of millions of dollars and billions of dollars.

And the reason for that is this is the first time in history that every single one of these companies needs compute and lots and lots of it. They need tokens, lots and lots of it. They're either going to create and build and create tokens and generate tokens or they're going to integrate, add value to tokens that are available created by Anthropic and OpenAI and others. And so this industry is different in so many different ways, but the one thing that is very clear, the impact that they're making, the incredible value that they're delivering already is quite tangible. AI natives, all because we reinvented computing.

Just like during the PC revolution, a whole bunch of new companies were created. Just as during the Internet revolution, a whole bunch of companies were created in the mobile cloud, a whole bunch of companies were created. Each one of them had their own standards, and we're talking about one of the major standards that just happened, incredibly important. And this generation, we also have our own large number of very, very special companies. We reinvented computing. It stands to reason there's going to be a whole new crop of really important companies, consequential companies for the future of the world. The Googles, the Amazons, the Metas, consequential companies that have come as a result of the last computing platform shift. We are now at the beginning of a new platform shift.

But what happened in the last couple of years? Well, we've been watching, as you know, we've been working on deep learning and working on AI, the big bang of modern AI, we were right there at the spot, and we've been advancing this field for quite some time. But why the last 2 years? What happened in the last 2 years? Well, 3 things. ChatGPT, of course, started the generative AI era. It's able to not just understand, perceive and understand, it's able to also translate and generate generation of unique content. I showed you the fusion of generative AI with computer graphics and it brought computer graphics to life. You guys -- just everybody in the world should be using ChatGPT. I know I use it every single morning, use to planning this morning. And so ChatGPT was the generative AI era.

The second, by the way, generative computing, versus the way we used to do computing. It's not -- it's generative AI is a capability of software, but it has profoundly changed how computing is done. Computing used to be retrieval-based. Now it's generative. Keep that thought in mind when I talk about certain things, and you'll realize why it is that everything that we do is going to change how computers are architected, how computers are provided, how computers are going to be built out and what is the meaning of computing altogether. Generative AI, 2023, end of '22, 2023.

The next reasoning AI, o1, which -- and then took off with o3. Reasoning allowed it to reflect, allows it to think to itself, allowed it to plan, break down problems and decompose a problem it couldn't understand into steps or parts that it could understand. It could ground itself on research. o1 made generative AI trustworthy and grounded on truth. That caused ChatGPT to simply took off. And that was a very, very big moment. The amount of input tokens that was necessary in order to produce and the amount of output tokens it generated in order to reason, the model was a little bit larger. Of course, you could have much larger models. o1 was a little bit larger, not much larger, but it's input token usage for context and it's output token for thinking increased the amount of computation tremendously.

Then came Claude Code, the first agentic model. It was able to read files, code, compile it, test it, evaluate it, go back and iterate on it. Claude Code has revolutionized software engineering, as all of you know. 100% of NVIDIA is using a combination of -- or oftentimes all 3 of them, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor all over NVIDIA. There's not one software engineer today who is not assisted by one or many AI agents helping them code. Claude Code completely revolutionized. It's the new inflection. And for the first time, you don't ask AI, what, where, when, how. You ask it create, do, build. You ask it to use tools, take your context, read files, it's able to agentically break down a problem, reason about it, reflect on it. It's able to solve problems and actually perform tasks.

An AI that was able to perceive became an AI that could generate. An AI that could generate became an AI that could reason. An AI that could reason now became an AI that can actually do work, very productive work. The amount of computation in the last 2 years, we know that everybody in this room knows the computing demand for NVIDIA GPUs off the charts. Spot pricing is skyrocketing. You couldn't find a GPU if you tried and yet in the meantime, we're shipping GPUs out. Incredible amounts of it and demand just keeps on going up. There's a reason for that. This fundamental inflection.

Finally, AI is able to do productive work, and therefore, the inflection point of inference has arrived. AI now has to think. In order to think, it has to inference. AI now has to do. In order to do, it has to inference. AI has to read. In order to do so, it has to inference. It has to reason. It has to inference every part of AI every time it has to think, it has to reason, it has to do. It has to generate tokens. It has to inference. It's way past training now. It's in the field of inference. So the inference inflection has arrived. At the time when the amount of tokens, the amount of compute necessary increased by roughly 10,000 times. Now when I combine these 2, the fact that since in the last 2 years, the computing demand of the work has gone up by 10,000 times. And the amount of usage has probably gone up by 100x. People have heard me say, I believe that computing demand has increased by 1 million times in the last 2 years.

It is the feeling that we all have. It is the feeling every startup has. It's the feeling that OpenAI has, it's the feeling that Anthropic has. If they could just get more capacity, they could generate more tokens, their revenues would go up. More people could use it, the more advanced, the smarter the AI could become. We are now at that positive flywheel system. We have reached that moment. The inflection -- the inference inflection has arrived. Last year, at this time, I said that where I stood at that moment in time, we saw about $500 billion. We saw $500 billion of very high confidence demand and purchase orders for Blackwell and Rubin through 2026. I said that last year.

Now I don't know if you guys feel the same way, but $500 billion is an enormous amount of revenue. Not one impressed. I know why you're not impressed because all of you had record years. Well, I'm here to tell you that right now, where I stand, a few short months after GTC D.C., 1 year after last GTC, right here where I stand, I see through 2027, at least $1 trillion. Now does it make any sense? And that's what I'm going to spend the rest of the time talking about. In fact, we are going to be short. I am certain computing demand will be much higher than that. And there's a reason for that.

So the first thing is we did a lot of work in the last year. Of course, as you know, 2025 was NVIDIA's year of inference. We wanted to make sure that not only were we good at training and post training, that we were incredibly good at every single phase of AI so that the investments that were made, investments made in our infrastructure could scale out for as long as they would like to use it and the useful life of NVIDIA's infrastructure would be long, and therefore, the cost would be incredibly low. The longer you could use it, the lower the cost. There's no question in my mind, NVIDIA systems are the lowest cost infrastructure you could get for AI infrastructure in the world. And so the first part was last year was all about AI for inference, and it drove this inflection point.

Simultaneously, we were very pleased last year that Anthropic has come to NVIDIA, that MSL, Meta SL has chosen NVIDIA. And meanwhile, as a collection, as a group, this represents 1/3 of the world's AI compute, open source models. Open source models have reached near the frontier, and it is literally everywhere. And NVIDIA, as you know, today, we're the only platform in the world today that runs every single domain of AI across every single one of these AI models in language, in biology, in computer graphics, computer vision, in speech, proteins and chemicals, robotics and otherwise, edge of cloud, any language. NVIDIA's architecture is fungible for all of that, and we're incredible for all of that.

That allows us to be the lowest cost, the highest confidence platform because when you're building these systems, as I mentioned, $1 trillion is an enormous amount of infrastructure. You have to have complete confidence that the $1 trillion you're putting down will be utilized, would be performant, would be incredibly cost effective and have useful life for as long as you could see. That infrastructure investment you could make on NVIDIA, you could make with complete confidence. We have now proven that. It is the only infrastructure in the world that you could go anywhere in the world and build with complete confidence. You want to put it in any of the clouds, we're delighted by that. You want to put it on-prem, we're happy about that. You want to put it in any country anywhere, we're delighted to support you. We are now a computing platform that runs all of AI.

Now our business already starting to show that. 60% of our business is hyperscalers, the top 5 hyperscalers. However, even within that top 5 hyperscalers, some of it is internal AI consumption. The internal AI consumption, really important work, like REXUS is moving from recommender systems of tables and collaborative filtering and content filtering. It's moving towards deep learning and large language models. Search, moving to deep learning, large language models. Almost all of these different hyperscale workloads are now moving, shifting towards a workload that NVIDIA GPUs are incredibly good at. But on top of that, because we work with every AI lab, because we work with every -- we accelerate every AI model and because we have a large ecosystem of AI natives that we work with that we can bring to the clouds. That investment, no matter how large, no matter how quick that compute will be consumed. And that represents 60% of our business.

The other 40% is just everywhere. Regional clouds, sovereign clouds, enterprise, industrial, robotics, edge, big systems, supercomputing systems, small servers, enterprise servers, the number of systems, incredible. The diversity of AI is also its resilience. The span of reach of AI is its resilience. There is no question this is not a one-app technology. This is now fundamental. This is absolutely a new computing platform shift.

Well, our job is to continue to advance the technology. And one of the most important things that I mentioned last year was last year was our year of inference. We dedicated everything. We took a giant chance and reinvented while Hopper was at its prime and it was just cooking, we decided that the Hopper architecture, the [ NVLink x8 ] had to be taken to the next level. We completely re-architected the system, disaggregated the computing system altogether and created NVLink 72. The way that it's built, the way it's manufactured, the way it's programmed completely changed. Grace Blackwell, NVLink 72 was a giant bet. And it wasn't easy for anybody. And many of my partners here in the room, I want to thank all of you for the hard work that you guys did. Thank you.

NVLink 72, NVFP4, not just FP4 precision, FP4 is a whole different type of Tensor Core and computational unit. We've demonstrated now that we can inference NVFP4 without loss of precision, but gigantic boost in performance and energy efficiency. We've also been able to use NVFP4 for training. So NVLink 72, NVFP4, the invention of Dynamo, TensorRT-LLM, a whole bunch of new algorithms. We even built a supercomputer to help us optimize kernels and help us optimize our complete stack. We call it DGX Cloud. We invested billions of dollars of supercomputing capability to help us create the kernels, the software that made inference possible.

Well, the results all came together and people used to tell me, but Jensen, inference is so easy. Inference is the ultimate hard. Inference is ultimate hard, and it's also ultimate important because it drives your revenues. And so this is the outcome. This is from SemiAnalysis, this is the largest, most comprehensive suite of AI inference that has ever been done. And what you see here on the left on this side is tokens per watt. Tokens per watt is important because every data center, every single factory, by definition, is power constrained. A 1 gigawatt factory will never become 2. It's physically constrained, the laws of atoms, the laws of physicality. And so that 1 gigawatt of data center, you want to drive the maximum number of tokens, which is the production, the product of that factory. So you want that -- you want to be on top of that curve as high as you want.

This -- the X-axis is the interactivity, the speed of inference, the speed of each inference. The faster you can inference, the faster you could, of course, respond. But very importantly, the faster you can inference, the larger the models, the more context you could process, the more tokens you can think through, this axis is the same as smartness of the AI. And so this is the throughput of the AI. This is the smartness of the AI. Notice the smarter the AI, the lower your throughput makes sense. You're thinking longer, okay? And so this axis is the speed, and I'm going to come back to this. This is important. This is where I torture all of you, but it's too important. Every CEO in the world, you watch, every CEO in the world will study their business from now on in the way I'm about to describe. Because this is your token factory. This is your AI factory. This is your revenues. There's no question about that going forward.

And so this is the throughput. This is the intelligence. Better perf per watt for a given power of data center, the more throughput, the more tokens you could produce. On this side is cost. Notice, NVIDIA is the highest performance in the world. Nobody would be surprised by that. They would be surprised by the fact that in one generation, whereas Moore's Law would have given us through transistors, 50%, 2x, Moore's Law would probably give us 1.5x more performance. You would have expected from Hopper H200, 1.5x higher. Nobody would have expected 35x higher. I said last year, at this time that NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell, NVLink 72 was 35x perf per watt. Nobody believed me. And then SemiAnalysis came out and Dylan Patel had a quote, he accused me of sandbagging. He accused me of sandbagging. He says Jensen sandbagged. It's actually 50x, and he's not wrong. He's not wrong.

And so our cost per token is the lowest in the world. You can't beat it. I've said before, if you have the wrong architecture, even if it's free, it's not cheap enough. And the reason for that is because no matter what happens, you still have to build a gigawatt data center. You still have to build a gigawatt factory. And that gigawatt factory for 15 years amortized across that gigawatt factory is about $40 billion. Even when you put nothing on, it's $40 billion in. You better make for darn sure, you put the best computer system on that thing so that you could have the best token cost. NVIDIA's token cost is world-class, basically untouchable at the moment. And the reason that's true is because of an extreme co-design. And so I'm very happy that he named us -- there was a Monkey King, token king.

Well, we take all of our software. As I told you, we vertically integrate, but we horizontally open. We're vertical integration, horizontal open. We integrate all of our software and all of our technology, however we could package it up and integrate it into the world's inference service providers. And these companies are growing so fast. They're growing so fast. Fireworks, Lynn is here, together, they're just growing so incredibly fast. 100x in the last year. They are token factories. And the effectiveness, the performance and the token cost production capability for their factories is everything to them. And this is what happened. This is -- we updated their software, same system and notice their token speeds, incredible. The difference before NVIDIA updated everything and all of our algorithms and software and all the technology that we bring to bear, about 700 tokens per second average went to nearly 5,000, 7x higher. And so this is the incredible power of extreme codesign.

I mentioned earlier the importance of factories. This is the importance of factory. Your data center, it used to be a data center for files. It's now a factory to generate tokens. Your factory is limited no matter what. Everybody is looking for land, power and shell. Once you build it, you are power limited. Within that power limited infrastructure, you better make for darn sure that your inference because you know inference is your workload, and tokens is your new commodity, that compute is your revenues that you want to make sure that the architecture is as optimized as you can. In the future, every single CSP, every single computer company, every single cloud company, every single AI company, every single company period are going to be thinking about their token factory effectiveness. This is your factory in the future.

And the reason why I know that is because everybody in this room is powered by intelligence. And in the future, that intelligence will be augmented by tokens. So let me show you how we got here.

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Now in the good old days, when I would say, Hopper, I would hold up a chip. That's just adorable. This is Vera Rubin. When we think Vera Rubin, we think the entire system, vertically integrated completely with software, extended end-to-end, optimized as one giant system.

The reason why it's designed for agentic systems is very clear because agents, of course, the most important workload is it's thinking the large language model. The large language models are going to get larger and larger and larger. It's going to generate more and more tokens more quickly, so it could think more quickly, but it also has to access memory.

It's going to pound on memory really hard. KV Cache, structured data, cuDF, unstructured data, cuVS. It's going to be pounding on the storage system really, really hard, which is the reason why we reinvented the storage system. It is also going to use tools. And unlike humans that are more tolerant to slower computers, AI wants the tools to be as fast as possible.

These tools, web browsers in the future, they could also be virtual PCs in the cloud. Those PCs have to be -- and those computers have to be as fast as possible. We created a brand-new CPU, a brand-new CPU that's designed for extremely high single-threaded performance, incredibly high data output, incredibly good at data processing and extreme energy efficiency.

It is the only data center CPU in the world that uses LPDDR5 and incredible single-thread performance and performance per watt that is unrivaled. And so that's -- we built that so that it could go along with the rest of these racks for agentic processing. And so here it is. This is the Grace Blackwell -- no, Vera Rubin, where is it? Here it is, okay? So this is the Vera Rubin system. Notice since the last time, 100% liquid cooled. All of the cables gone.

What used to take 2 days to install, now takes 2 hours, incredible. And so the manufacturing cycle time is going to dramatically reduce. This is also a supercomputer that is cooled by -- it's cooled by hot water, 45 degrees, which takes the pressure off of the data center, takes all of that cost and all of that energy that's used to cool the data center and makes it available for the system. This is the secret sauce.

It is the only -- we're the only company in the world that has today built the sixth generation scale-up switching system. This is not Ethernet. This is not InfiniBand. This is NVLink. This is the sixth generation NVLink. This is insanely hard to do well. It is insanely hard to do, period. And I'm just super proud of the team, NVLink, completely liquid cooled. This is the brand-new Groq system, and I'll show you a little bit more about it. This system, 8 Groq chips, this is the LP30.

The world has never seen it. Anything that the world has ever seen is V1. This is third generation, and we're in volume production now. And I'll show you more about that in just a second. The world's first CPO Spectrum-X switch. This is also in full production, co-packaged optics. Optics comes directly onto this chip, interfaces directly to silicon, electrons gets translated to photons and it gets directly connected to this chip.

We invented the process technology with TSMC. We're the only one in production with it today. It's called cuOpt. It's completely revolutionary. NVIDIA is in full production with Spectrum-X.

This is the Vera system, twice the performance per watt of any CPUs in the world today. It is also in production. Well, we never thought we would be selling CPU stand-alone. We are selling a lot of CPU stand-alone. This is already, for sure, going to be a multibillion-dollar business for us. So I'm very, very pleased with our CPU architects. We've designed a revolutionary CPU. And this is the CX9 powered with Vera CPU, the BlueField-4 STX, our new storage platform, okay?

So these are the -- these are the racks and it's connected each one of these racks, the NVLink rack, this is -- I've shown you guys this before. It's super heavy. It seems to get heavier every year because I think there's just more cables in there every year. And so this is the NVLink rack.

We've also taken this technology because it is so efficient to create a data center with these cabling systems, structured cables. So we decided to do that for Ethernet. So this is Ethernet 256 liquid-cooled nodes in one rack, and it is also connected with these incredible connectors. You guys want to see Rubin Ultra. So this is the Rubin Ultra compute node. Unlike Rubin that slides in horizontally, Rubin Ultra goes into a whole new rack, it's called Kyber that enables us to connect 144 GPUs in 1 NVLink domain.

And so the Kyber rack, this -- I could lift it, I'm sure, but I won't. It's quite heavy. This is one compute node, and it slides into the Kyber rack vertically. This is where it connects into. This is the mid-plane. The Kyber racks, those 4 top NVLink connectors slide in and connect into this, and this becomes one of the nodes.

And each one of these racks is a different compute node, and this is the amazing part. This is the midplane -- and the back of the midplane, instead of the cabling system, which has its limits in terms of how far we could drive cables, copper cables, we now have this system to connect 144 GPUs.

This is the new NVLink. This sits also vertically and it connects into the midplanes on the back, compute in the front, NVLink switches in the back, one giant computer, okay? So that is Rubin Ultra.

As I mentioned -- how about we take this back down? I need the rest of my slides. Oh, it's coming down. Okay. Thank you, Gennie. This is what happens when you don't practice. Okay. All right. So you saw -- take your time, don't get hurt. You saw this slide. Only NVIDIA's keynote where you see last year's slide presented again. And the reason for that is I just want to let you know that last year, I told you something very, very important. And it's so important, it's worthwhile to tell you again.

This is probably the single most important chart for the future of AI factories. And every CEO in the world will be tracking it, will be studying it very deeply. It's much, much more complicated than this. It's multidimensional, but you will be studying the throughput and the token speed of your AI factories, the throughput, token speed at ISO power because that's all the power you have, throughput and token speed for your factories forever. And that analysis is going to lead directly to your revenues. What you do this year will show up precisely next year as your revenues.

And this chart is what it's all about. And I said on the vertical axes, on the vertical axes -- thank you, guys. On the vertical axes is throughput.

On the horizontal axis is token rate. Today, I'm going to show you this. Because we're -- because we're now able to increase the token speed and because model sizes are increasing because the token length, the context length depending on the different grades of different application use case continues to grow from maybe 100,000 tokens input length to maybe millions.

The token input length is growing and also the output token length is growing. And so all of these play into ultimately the marketing and the pricing of future tokens. Tokens are the new commodity. And like all commodities, once it reaches an inflection, once it becomes mature or becomes maturing, it will segment into different parts. The high throughput, low speed could be used for the free tier.

The next tier could be the medium tier, larger model maybe, higher speed for sure, larger input context length. That translates to a different price point. You could see from all the different services, this one is free. It's a free tier. The first tier could be $3 per million tokens. The next tier could be $6 per million tokens. You would like to be able to keep pushing this boundary because the larger the model, smarter, the more input token context length, more relevant, the higher the speed -- the long -- the more you can think and iterate smarter AI models. So this is about smarter AI models. And when you have smarter AI models, each one of these clicks allows you to increase the price. So this is $45. And maybe one day, there'll be a premium model that allows you a premium service that allows you to generate token speeds that are incredibly high because you're in a critical path or maybe you're doing really long research and $150 per million tokens is just not a thing. So let's translate that.

Suppose you were to use 50 million tokens per day as a researcher at $150 per million tokens. As it turns out, as a research team, that's not even a thing. So we believe that this is the future. This is where AI wants to go. This is where it is today. It had to start here to establish the value and establish its usefulness and get better and better and better. In the future, you're going to see most services encompass all of that. This is Hopper. Hopper started, and I moved the chart, this is 50, this is 100. Hopper looks like this. And you would have expected Hopper, the next generation to be higher, but nobody would have expected it to be that much higher. This is Grace Blackwell.

What Grace Blackwell did is at your free tier, increase your throughput tremendously. However, where you mostly monetize your service it increased your throughput by 35x. This is no different than any product that every company makes. The higher the tier, the higher the quality, the higher the performance, the lower the volume, the lower the capacity. And so it is no different than any other business in the world.

And so now we're able to increase this tier by 35x, and we introduced a whole new tier. This is the benefit of Grace Blackwell, a huge jump over Hopper. Well, this is what we're doing with -- okay. So this is Grace Blackwell, okay? Let me just reset this, and this is Vera Rubin. -- okay? Now just think what just happened. At every single tier, at every single tier, at every single tier, we increased the throughput.

And at the tier that where your highest ASP and your most valuable segment, we increased it by 10x. That is the hard work. This is incredibly hard to do out here. This is the benefit of NVLink72. This is the benefit of extremely low latency. This is the benefit of extreme codesign that we could shift the entire area up.

Now what does it mean from a customer perspective in the end? Suppose I were to take all of that and I just multiply it against -- suppose I took 25% of my power, used it in a free tier, 25% of my power in the medium tier, 25% of my power in the high tier and 25% of my power in the premium tier. My data center only has a gigawatt. And so I get to decide how I want to distribute. The free tier allows me to attract more customers.

This allows me to serve my most valuable customers. And the combination, the product of all that allows you basically your revenues. The revenues you can generate, assuming this simplistic example, allows Blackwell to generate 5x more revenues, Vera Rubin to generate 5x. So Vera Rubin, you should get there as soon as you can.

And the reason for that is because your cost of tokens goes down and your throughput goes up. But we want even more. We want even more. And so let me just show you back to this. This is -- as I told you, this throughput requires a ton of flops. This latency, this interactivity requires enormous amount of bandwidth.

Computers don't like extreme amount of flops, extreme amount of bandwidth because there's only so much surface area for chips that any systems has. And so optimizing for high throughput and optimizing for low latency are, in fact, enemies of each other. And so this is what happened when we combined with Groq, okay?

And so we acquired the team that worked on the Groq chips and licensed the technology, and we've been working together now to integrate the system. This is what that looks like. So at the most valuable tier -- at the most valuable tier, we're now going to increase performance by 35x. Now this very simple chart revealed to you exactly the reason why NVIDIA is so strong in the vast majority of the workloads so far.

And the reason for that is because up in this area, throughput matters so much. NVLink 72 is so game changing. It is exactly the right architecture, and it's even hard to beat even as you add Groq to it. However, if you extended this chart way out here and you said you wanted to have services that delivers not 400 tokens per second, but 1,000 tokens per second, all of a sudden, NVLink 72 runs out of steam and it simply can't get there. We just don't have enough bandwidth. And so this is where Groq comes in, and this is what happens when we push that out.

So it goes out beyond -- thank you -- it goes out beyond even the limits of what NVLink 72 can do. And if you were to do that, translate that into revenues, relative to Blackwell, Vera Rubin is 5x. If most of your workload is high throughput, I would stick with just 100% Vera Rubin. If a lot of your workload wants to be coding and very high-value engineering token generation, I would add Groq to it.

I would add Groq to maybe 25% of my total data center. The rest of my data center is all 100% Vera Rubin. And so that gives you a sense of how you would add Groq to Vera Rubin and extend its performance and extend its value even more. This is what happens. This is a contrast. The reason why Groq was so attractive to me is because their computing system, a deterministic data flow processor, it is statically compiled. It is compiler scheduled, meaning the compiler figures out when do the compute -- the compute and the data arrives at the same time.

All of that is done statically in advance and scheduled completely in software. There's no dynamic scheduling. The architecture is designed with massive amounts of SRAM, it is designed just for inference, this one workload. Now this one workload, as it turns out, is the workload of AI factories. And as the world continues to increase the amount of high-speed tokens it wants to generate with super smart tokens it wants to generate, the value of this integration is going to get even higher.

And so these are 2 extreme processors you could see. One chip, 500 megabytes, 1 Vera Rubin chip -- 1 Rubin chip, 288 gigabytes -- it would take a lot of Groq chips to be able to hold the parameter size of Rubin as well as all of the context that has to go -- the KV Cache that has to go along with it. So that limited Groq's ability to really reach the mainstream to really take off until we had a great idea.

What have we disaggregated inference altogether with a piece of software called Dynamo? What have we rearchitected the way that inference is done in the pipeline so that we could put the work that makes perfect sense on Vera Rubin and then offload the decode generation, the low latency, the bandwidth limited challenged part of the workload for Groq. And so we united, unified processors of extreme differences, one for high throughput, one for low latency.

It still doesn't change the fact that we need a lot of memory. And so Groq, we're just going to add a whole bunch of Groq chips, which expands the amount of memory it has. And so if you could just imagine, out of 1 trillion parameter model, we have to store all of that in Groq chips.

However, it sits next to NVIDIA Vera Rubin, where we could hold the massive amounts of KV Cache that's necessary in processing all of these agentic AI systems. It's based upon this idea of disaggregated inference. We do the prefill, that's the easy part, but we also tightly integrate the decode.

So the attention part of decode is done on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin, which needs a lot of math and the feed forward network part of it, the decode part is done -- the token generation part is done on Vera Rubin -- on the Groq chip. The 2 of them working tightly coupled together over today, Ethernet with a special mode to reduce its latency by about half.

And so that capability allows us to integrate these 2 systems. We run Dynamo, this incredible operating system for AI factories on top of it, and you get 35x increase, not to mention additional new tiers of inference performance for token generation the world has never seen. So this is it. This is Groq. The Vera Rubin systems, including Groq I want to thank Samsung, who manufactures the Groq LP30 chip for us, and they're cranking as hard as they can. I really appreciate you guys.

We're in production with the Groq chip, and we'll ship it in the second half, probably about Q3 time frame, okay? Groq LPX. Vera Rubin, it's kind of hard to imagine any more customers.

And the really great thing is Grace Blackwell, early sampling of it was really complicated because of coming together of NVLink 72, but the sampling of Vera Rubin is just going incredibly well. And in fact, Satya, I think, texted out already that the first Vera Rubin rack is already up and running at Microsoft Azure.

And so I'm super excited for them. We're going to keep cranking these things out. We have now set up a supply chain that can manufacture thousands a week of these systems, essentially multi-gigawatts of AI factories per month inside our supply chain. And so we're going to crank out these Vera Rubin racks while we're cranking out the GB 300 racks. We are in full production.

The Vera CPUs incredibly successful. And the reason for that is because AI needs CPUs for tool use. and Vera CPU was designed just perfectly for that sweet spot, incredible for the next generation of data processing. Vera CPU is ideal. The Vera CPU plus BlueField plus CX9 connected into the BlueField 4 stack, 100% of the world's storage industry is joining us on this system.

And the reason for that is because they see exactly the same thing. The storage system is going to get pounded. It's going to get pounded because we used to have humans using the storage systems. We used to have humans using SQL.

Now we're going to have AIs using these storage systems, and it's going to store cuDF accelerated storage, cuVS accelerated storage as well as very importantly, KV Caching, okay? So this is the Vera Rubin system. Now what's amazing is this, in just 2 years' time, in a 1 gigawatt factory -- in just 2 years' time, in 1 gigawatt factory, using the mathematics that I showed you earlier, whereas Moore's Law would have given us a couple of steps, we would have x factored the number of transistors. We would have x factored the number of flops. We would have x factored the number of amount of bandwidth.

But with this architecture, we're going to take our token generation speed, token generation rate from 2 million to 700 million, 350x increase. This is the power of extreme co-design. This is what I mean when we integrate and optimize vertically, but then we open it horizontally for everybody to enjoy. This is our road map very quickly. Blackwell is here, the Oberon system. In the case of Rubin, we have the Oberon system. We're always backwards compatible so that if you wanted to not change anything and just keep on moving through with the new architecture, you could do so.

The old system -- the standard rack system, Oberon, still available. Oberon is copper scale up. And with Oberon, we could also use optical scale-out -- or excuse me, optical scale up to expand to NVLink 576, okay? And so there's a lot of conversation about is NVIDIA going to copper scale up or optical scale up?

We're going to do both. So we're going to have NVLink 144 with Kyber and then with Oberon, we're going to NVLink 72 plus optical to get to NVLink 576. The next generation of Rubin with Rubin Ultra, we have the Rubin Ultra chip, which is coming -- which is taping out.

And we have a brand-new chip, LP35. LP35 will, for the first time, incorporate NVIDIA's NVFP4 computing structure, give you another few X factor speed up, okay? And so this is Oberon NVLink 72 optical scale up, and it uses Spectrum 6, the world's first co-packaged optical and all of this is in production. The next generation from here is Feynman. Feynman has a new GPU, of course. It also has a new LPU, LP40, big step up, incredible, incredible new technology.

Now uniting the scale of NVIDIA and the Groq team building together LP40 is going to be incredible. A brand-new CPU called Rosa, short for Rosline, BlueField 5, which connects the next CPU with the next SuperNIC CX10. We will have Kyber which is copper scale up, we will also have Kyber CPO scale up.

So for the first time, we will scale up with both copper and co-packaged optics, okay? And so a lot of people have been asking, Jensen, is copper going to still be important? The answer is yes. Jensen, are you going to scale up optical? Yes. Are you going to scale out optical? Yes.

And so for everybody who is in our ecosystem, we need a lot more capacity, and that's really the key. We need a lot more capacity for copper. We need a lot more capacity for optics. We need a lot more capacity for CPO. And that's the reason why we've been working with all of you to lay the foundation for this level of growth. And so Feynman will have all of that.

Let me see if I missed everything. That's it. Every single year, brand-new architecture. Very quickly, NVIDIA went from a chip company to an AI factory company or AI infrastructure company, AI computing company, these systems. And now we're building entire AI factories. There's so much power that is squandered in these AI factories. We want to make sure that these AI factories come together, designed in the best possible way.

Most of these components never meet each other. Most of us technology vendors. Now we all know each other. But in the past, we never met each other until the data center. That can't happen. We're building super complex systems. And so we have to meet each other virtually somewhere else. And so we created Omniverse and the Omniverse DSX world, a platform where all of us can meet and design these gigafactories, gigawatt AI factories virtually in system.

We have simulation systems for the racks for mechanical, thermal, electrical, networking, those simulation systems integrated into all of our ecosystem partners of incredible tools companies. We also operate it, connect it to the grid so that we could interact with each other, send each other information so that we could adjust grid power and data center power accordingly, saving energy.

And then inside the data center using Max-Q so that we could adjust the system dynamically across power and cooling and all of the different technologies we all work on together so that we leave no power squandered, so that we run at the most optimal rate to deliver enormous amount of token throughput.

There's no question in my mind, there's a factor of 2 in here. And the factor of 2 at the scale we're talking about is gigantic. We call this the NVIDIA DSX platform. And just as all of our platforms, there's the hardware layer, there's the library layer and there's the ecosystem layer. It's exactly the same way. Let's show it to you.

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It's incredible, right? Well, Omniverse was designed to hold the world's digital twin, starting from the Earth, and it's going to hold digital twins of all sizes. And so we have such a great ecosystem of partners. I want to thank all of you. All of these companies are brand new to our world.

We didn't know many of you just a couple of years ago. And now we're working so close together to work on and build together the largest computer the world's ever seen and also to do it at planetary scale. So NVIDIA DSX is our new AI factory platform. I'll spend very little time on this time.

However, we're going to space. We've already been out in space. Thor is radiation approved, and we're in satellites. You do imaging from satellites in the future. We'll also build data centers in space. Obviously, very complicated to do so. We have -- we're working with our partners on a new computer called Vera Rubin Space-1, and it's going to go out to space and start data centers out in space.

Now of course, in space, there's no conduction, there's no convection. There's just radiation. And so we have to figure out how to cool these systems out in space, but we've got lots of great engineers working on it. Let me talk to you about something new.

So Peter Steinberger is here, and he wrote a piece of software. It's called OpenClaw. And I don't know if he realized how successful it's going to be, but the importance is profound. OpenClaw is the #1. It's the most popular open source project in the history of humanity, and it did so in just a few weeks.

It exceeded what Linux did in 30 years, and it's that important. It is that important. It will do -- well, this is all you do, okay? We're announcing our support of it. Let me just quickly go through this. I want to show you a couple of things. You simply type this type this into a console and it goes out, it finds OpenClaw, it downloads it. It builds you an AI agent, and then you could tell it whatever else you need to do, okay? So let's take a look.

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Incredible. Now I illustrated effectively what Open claw is in this way so that all of you can understand it, but let's just think what happened. What is open? It connects -- it's agentic system. It calls and connects to large language models. So the first thing it has, it has resources that it manages.

It could access tools, it could access file systems, it could access large language models. It's able to do scheduling. It's able to do cron jobs. It's able to decompose a problem that a prompt that you gave it into step by step by step. It could spun off and call upon other subagents. It has I/O. You could talk to it in any modality you want. You could wave at it and understand you.

You could talk to any modality you want. It sends you messages, it text you, send you e-mail. So it's got I/O. What else does it have? Well, based on that, you could say, in fact, it's an operating system. I've just used the same syntax that I would describe an operating system. OpenClaw has open sourced essentially the operating system of agentic computers. It is no different than how Windows made it possible for us to create personal computers.

Now OpenClaw has made it possible for us to create personal agents. The implication is incredible. The implication is incredible. First of all, the adoption says something all in itself. However, the most important thing is this, every single company now realize every single company, every single software company, every single technology company for the CEOs, the question is, what's your OpenClaw strategy? Just as we need to all have a Linux strategy. We all needed to have HTTP, HTML strategy, which started the Internet.

We all needed to have a Kubernetes strategy, which made it possible for mobile cloud to happen. Every company in the world today needs to have an OpenClaw strategy and agentic system strategy. This is the new computer. Now this is just the exciting part. This is enterprise IT before OpenClaw. And I mentioned earlier, the way enterprise IT works and the reason why it's called data centers is because these large rooms, these large buildings held data, held the files of people, the structured data of business.

It would pass through software that has tools and systems of records and all kinds of workflow that's codified into it, and that turns into tools that humans would use. Digital workers would use. That is the old IT industry, software companies creating tools, saving files and of course, GSIs consultants that help companies figure out how to use these tools and integrate these tools.

These tools are incredibly valuable for governance and security and privacy and compliance and all of that continues to be true. It's just that post-Open Claw, post agentic, this is what it's going to look like. This is the extraordinary part. Every single IT company, every single company, every company, every SaaS company will become a [ GaaS ] company. No question about it. Every single SaaS company will becoming a [ GaaS ] company and Agentic-as-a-Service company. And what's amazing is this, you know OpenClaw gave us -- gave the industry exactly what it needed at exactly the time.

Just as Linux gave the industry exactly what it needed exactly the time, just as Kubernetes showed up at exactly the right time, just as HTML showed up. It made it possible for the entire industry to grab on to this open source stack and go do something with it. There's just one catch. Agentic systems in the corporate network can have access to sensitive information, it can execute code and it can communicate externally. Just say that out loud, okay? Think about it. Access sensitive information, execute code, communicate externally.

You could, of course, access employee information, access supply chain, access finance information and send it out, communicate externally. Obviously, this can't possibly be allowed.

And so what we did was we worked with Peter. We took some of the world's best security and computing experts, and we worked with Peter to make OpenClaw, enterprise secure and enterprise private capable. And we call that -- this is our NVIDIA OpenClaw reference for Open -- NemoClaw, which is a reference for OpenClaw, and it has all these agentic AI toolkits. And the first part of it is technology we call OpenShell that has now been integrated into OpenClaw.

Now it's enterprise ready. This stack with a reference design we call NemoClaw, okay? With a reference stack we call NemoClaw, you could download it, play with it and you could connect to it the policy engine of all of the SaaS companies in the world. And your policy engines are super important, super valuable. So the policy engines could be connected, NemoClaw or OpenClaw with OpenShell would be able to execute that policy engine. It has a network guardrail. It has a privacy router. And as a result, we could protect and keep the claws from executing inside our company and do it safely.

We also added several things to the agentic system. And one of the most important things you want to do with your own custom claws is so that you can have your custom models. And this is NVIDIA's open model initiative. We are now at the frontier of every single domain of AI models, whether it's Nemotron, Cosmos' world foundation model; Groot, artificial general robotics, human robotics models; Alpamayo for autonomous vehicle; BioNeMo for digital biology; Earth-2 for AI physics, we are at the frontier on every single one. Take a look.

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Our models -- Thank you. Our models are valuable to all of you because number one, it's on the top of the leaderboard. It's world-class. But most importantly, it's because we are not going to give up working on it. We're going to keep on working on it every single day.

Nemotron 3 is going to be followed by Nemotron 4. Cosmos 1 was followed by Cosmos 2. Groot at generation 2. Each and one of these, we're going to continue to advance these models, vertical integration, horizontal openness, so that we can enable everybody to join the AI revolution, #1 on leaderboard across research and voice and world models and artificial general robotics and self-driving cars and reasoning. And of course, one of the most important one, this is Nemotron 3 in OpenClaw.

This is Nemotron 3 and OpenClaw and look at the top 3, they are the 3 best models in the world, okay? So we are at the frontier. It is also true that we want to create the foundation model so that all of you could fine-tune it and post-train it into exactly the intelligence you need.

This is Nemotron 3 Ultra. It is going to be the best base model the world has ever created. This allows us to help every country build their sovereign AI, and we're working with so many different companies out there. And one of the most exciting things that we're doing today, I'm announcing today, is a Nemotron coalition.

We are so dedicated to this. We have invested billions of dollars of AI infrastructure so that we could develop the core engines for AI that's necessary for all the libraries of inference and so on, but also to create the AI models to activate every single industry in the world.

Large language models is really important. Of course, it's important. How could human intelligence not be? However, in different industries around the world, in different countries around the world, you need to have the ability to customize your own models and the domain of the models is radically different from biology to physics, to self-driving cars, to general robotics to, of course, human language. And we have the ability to work with every single region to create their domain-specific, their sovereign AI.

Today, we're announcing a coalition to partner with us to make Nemotron 4 even more amazing. And that coalition has some amazing companies in it. Black Forest Labs, imaging company; Cursor, the famous coding company, we use lots of it; LangCain, billion downloads for creating custom agents; Mistral, Arthur mentioned, I think he's here, incredible, incredible company. Perplexity, Perplexity computer, absolutely use it. Everybody use it. It is so good, a multimodal agentic system; Reflection; Sarvum from India; Thinking Machine, Mira Murati's lab, incredible companies joining us. Thank you.

I said that every single enterprise company, every single software company in the world needs an agentic systems, need an agent strategy. You need to have an OpenClaw strategy, and they all agree. And they're all partnering with us to integrate NeMo, the NemoClaw reference design, the NVIDIA agentic AI toolkit and of course, all of our open models. One company after another, there are so many, and we're partnering with all of you.

I'm really grateful for that. And this is our moment. This is a reinvention. This is a renaissance, a renaissance of the enterprise IT from what would be a $2 trillion industry, this is going to become a multitrillion dollar industry, offering not just tools for people to use, but agents that are specialized in very special domains that you're expert in that we could rent. I could totally imagine in the future, every single engineer in our company will need an annual token budget.

They're going to make a few hundred thousand dollars a year of their base pay. I'm going to give them probably half of that on top of it as tokens so that they could be amplify 10x. Of course, we would. It is now one of the recruiting tools in Silicon Valley. How many tokens comes along with my job.

And the reason for that is very clear because every engineer that has access to tokens will be more productive. And those tokens, as you know, will be produced by AI factories that all of you and us, we partner to build, okay? So every single enterprise company in today sit on top of file systems and data centers.

Every single software company of the future will be agentic and there will be token manufacturers. There'll be token users for their engineers, and there'll be token manufacturers for all of their customers.

The OpenClaw's even -- the OpenClaw event cannot be understated. This is as big of a deal as HTML. This is as big of a deal as Linux. We have now a world-class open agentic framework that all of us could use to build our OpenClaw strategy. And we've created a reference design we call NemoClaw that all of you could use that is optimized, it's performant, it is safe and secure.

Speaking of agents, agents, as you know, perceive, reason and act. Most of the agents in the world today that I've spoken about are digital agents. They act in the digital world. They reason, they write software. It's all digital. But we also have been working on physically embodied agents for a long time.

We call them robots. And the AIs that they need are physical AIs. We have some big announcements here. I'm going to just walk through a few of them, 110 robots here, almost every single company in the world, I can't think of one that are building robots is working with NVIDIA.

We have 3 computers, the training computer, the synthetic data generation and simulation computer and of course, the robotics computer that sits inside the robot itself. We have all the software stacks necessary to do so, the AI models to help you. And all of this is integrated into ecosystems around the world and all of our partners from Siemens to Cadence, incredible partners everywhere. And today, we're announcing a whole bunch of new partners.

As you know, we've been working on self-driving cars for a long time. The ChatGPT moment of self-driving cars has arrived. We now know we could successfully autonomously drive cars. And today, we are announcing 4 new partners for NVIDIA's robotaxi-ready platform. BYD, Hyundai, Nissan, Geely, altogether, 18 million cars built each year, joining our partners from before, Mercedes, Toyota, GM, the number of robotaxi-ready cars in the future are going to be incredible.

And we're announcing also a big partnership with Uber. Multiple cities, we're going to be deploying and connecting these robotaxi-ready vehicles into their network. And so a whole bunch of new cars. We have ABB, Universal Robotics, KUKA, so many robotics companies here, and we're working with them to implement our physical AI models, integrated into simulation systems so that we could deploy these robots into manufacturing lines all over.

We have Caterpillar here. We even have T-Mobile here. And the reason for that is in the future, that radio tower used to be a radio tower is going to be an NVIDIA aerial AI RAN. And so this is going to be a robotics radio tower, meaning it can reason about the traffic, figure out how to adjust its beam forming so that it could save as much energy as possible and increase the amount of fidelity as possible. There are so many humanoid robots here, but one of my one of my favorites is a Disney robot. You know what? Tell you what, let me just show you some of the videos. Let's look at that first.

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Ladies and gentleman, Olaf. So Newton works -- Omniverse works. Olaf, How are you?

I'm so happy now that I'm leading you.

I know because I gave you your computer, Jetson.

What's that.

Well, it's in your tummy.

That's going to [indiscernible]

And you learn how to walk inside Omniverse [indiscernible] and it was because of physics using this Newton solver that runs on top of NVIDIA Warp that we jointly developed with Disney and with DeepMind that made it possible for you to be able to adapt to the physical world. [indiscernible] that's how smart you are.

I'm a snowman, not a snow [indiscernible].

Could you imagine this, the future of Disneyland, all these robots, all these characters wondering around. I have to admit though, I thought you were going to be taller. I've never seen such a short snowman, to be honest. Hey, tell you what, you want to help me out? Okay.

Usually, I close the keynote by telling you what I told you. We talked about inference inflection. We talked about the AI factory. We talked about the OpenClaw agent revolution that's happening.

And of course, we talked about physical AI and robotics. But tell you what, why don't we get some friends to help us close it out?

Of course.

Wow, no music, no walk on music, no roaring applause. I'm just saying, I'm not used to coming to work in this way, this total silence. I'm just kidding.

There were a lot of Taylor Swift comments along the way. So crowd is ready.

This company needs humor to it. Is humor allowed here?

Humor is very allowed. I made investment banking jokes yesterday, Jensen. But, thank you for being here for the last, I think, 25, 27 years, you've been such a great supporter of this conference. I think we sometimes become numb to the scale of the numbers and the transformation we're experiencing. I don't think I'm the only one in this audience. I'm getting billions and trillions confused constantly.

My partner, Mark Edelstone and I, 27 years ago, we sat on a stage much smaller than this one on the Morgan Stanley trading floor, and we announced and introduced NVIDIA and you to the Morgan Stanley sales force. And believe it or not, $48 million IPO, 1998 revenue -- trailing revenue, $30 million. Jensen and his team, Colette, were so generous. Two years ago, you hosted our Board meeting in your headquarters. I think you had just announced a $30 billion quarter in terms of revenue. And then last week, a $46 billion net income quarter.

So we've moved from years to quarters from millions to billions. It's really amazing and unprecedented scale and growth. And then you've changed our lives. You've changed our lives.

And so I guess my question after that is what had to come together strategically, culturally, technically to deliver that type of hyper growth at scale, and the scale is really astounding? And again, thank you.

That's going to take 37 minutes and 13 seconds and slightly more. Obviously, NVIDIA wasn't built overnight. It's taken us 33 years. I sort of remember somehow that when we went public, our price was $13, and I just read your's $12. I overstated it. I remembered it to be much more optimistically than it was actually. The company's valuation at the time, I think, was like $300 million. And Mark did such a good job, Mark Edelstone did such a good job preparing all of our investors that they really only had 1 question. It was literally a one-question IPO roadshow.

And the question was, when are you going out of business? I'm not kidding. And that question is about as hard to answer as the one you just gave me.

Well, the answer is, as it turns out, we started the company with the idea of creating a new computing platform, a new way of doing computing. And not that the old way was wrong, it's just that the new way, a new way is essential to solve some unique problems. And the type of things that we were extremely good at are algorithms, algorithms, because the inner loop of the software tends to be about 5% of the code, but 99% of the compute time. And back then, the algorithms in the world of computers was quite rare. And one of the most important algorithms was computer graphics, the simulation of light and how light travels through space.

And so while computer graphics was used for things like animation movies, of course, at the time that we were founded, the cover of, I forget which magazine was, Jurassic Park was there. And so it was really -- it was during that time where computer graphics was becoming more capable, and we could simulate virtual reality with it, and we applied it to creating a new industry, which did not exist at the time called video games. And so 3D graphics was modernized in my time, consumerized in my time. And the whole video game industry was created in my time.

And when I say in my time, meaning it was NVIDIA that pulled it all together. The reason why we're so beloved in the video game industry and we're so deep in it still is, in a lot of ways, we created the modern video game industry. From the algorithms associated with it, the libraries. In the computer graphics industry without RTX, there would be nothing today. Without our contribution of all the algorithms that goes into all of the game engines, you wouldn't be able to enjoy the type of video games you enjoy today. So NVIDIA has been deep in the world of algorithms since day 1, 33 years ago.

Now accelerated computing requires what is described as a full stack, meaning the architecture, the chip design, the libraries that sit on top of it, how it's integrated forwardly, I'm using that. Apparently, there's a new idea called forward deployed engineers or something like that. NVIDIA's had DevTech engineers 33 years ago. We deployed them into the world's video game industries and video game companies and game engines, and we integrate our technology into their game engine. Today, if you look at Epic's Unreal Engine, NVIDIA's technology is all over it. And you go into every game developer, NVIDIA's technology is all over. That's the reason why all the games run best on NVIDIA for good reason. That's the reason why NVIDIA is the world's largest game platform.

You probably don't know this, but there are several hundred million active GeForce gamers in the world. Many of them turned into AI researchers, is because of GeForce GTX 580 that Ilya Sutskever and Alex Krizhevsky and Jeff Hinton, it was Jeff that told them to go buy it to discover CUDA. And so the first idea about NVIDIA is that we're a full stack company.

The second idea about our company, and this is really old history that many people might not have been born yet. But during that time, the PC architecture was incompatible with today's computer graphics capabilities. And we created some new technology called Direct NVIDIA. It was a way for applications to directly communicate with our APIs. And we exposed it to some very important companies, it became DirectX. If you look at the way that we communicate between us and the application, that was completely revolutionary to bypass a whole bunch of software that makes it slow, right, to make accelerated computing possible.

We introduced the idea of virtualized frame buffer memory into system memory. It was initially called AGP, which then became PCI Express. Many of the system architecture had to be reinvented so that we could accommodate video games and 3D graphics in a PC. Well, that same sensibility of both innovating the full stack to be integrated in algorithms as well as changing the architecture of systems so that we could create new computer systems led to that same sensibility expertise led to DGX-1, which was the world's first AI supercomputer that delivered by hand to San Francisco here very close by to a company that eventually became OpenAI.

And so the fundamental attitude, if you will, expertise, how we see the world propagated in this way. It's literally 33 years. The company's entire culture is designed to be full stack. The organization is designed to be full stack. The entire system is designed to create new stacks and new system architectures that allow us to do this. Well, we started with, of course, the -- if you look at NVIDIA's graphics cards, GeForce, it's a technology marvel. How it's integrated into the operating system, how it's integrated into the system architecture, completely reinvented how computers worked before.

Well, we have no trouble with that with DGX-1. I have no trouble with that with the first supercomputing cluster, which then went to Satya for their first supercomputer. And you might -- people have noticed that Microsoft's first supercomputer and NVIDIA's supercomputer had exactly the same benchmark, like down to the -- you measure the performance of the system across all of these GPUs, that was about 10,000 GPUs or so. It was exactly the same performance. And the reason for that is because we designed it, and we delivered to Azure Cloud.

It was all based on InfiniBand. It was all based on Ampere, this is the A100, which became the first computer that OpenAI used. And so we're quite comfortable with this full stack, full system approach. And without being able to do that, it is impossible to stay at the bleeding edge. It is literally impossible to keep up with a company that's building not just one chip each year, but we're building an entire infrastructure each year because-- we own the CPU. We revolutionized the new way of designing CPUs, and you'll see more examples of that. We revolutionized the way we do CPUs, revolutionized the way we obviously do GPUs, connect them together using this thing called NVLink, which revolutionized the way you build computers all together, connected together with a new type of AI Ethernet called Spectrum-X, we connected everything together. Now we own the entire stack. We know all the chips inside.

When you own the entire stack and you own all the chips inside, you could change it every single year. If you don't own the entire stack and you don't own all the chips, it's hard to innovate every year. And the reason for that is because you're connecting too many cats and dogs, and there's too much innovation to pull together once a year if you can't control it because it's a full stack problem. So that's how we got here.

It's amazing. In the last 2 years, since you were here last and our Board meeting, we've sort of gone from generative AI models to reasoning and now agentic and Satya just finished a panel on the enterprise. And at the enterprise level, we're working with Microsoft, the OpenAI, XAI, Gemini, we have Dario here from Anthropic, the capabilities are extraordinary. What does it mean around the size of that enterprise market? How is it changing? And how is it going to be adopted? And how do you sort of see that playing out over the years because it's a big, big topic of the...

Yes, really good. literally, in the last 2 years, we went through 3 inflection points in AI. The first inflection point, first of all, the technology sat there in plain sight for months. GPT-3 sat there in plain sight for months until somebody wrote essentially a wrapper around it and turned it into ChatGPT, turned it into an API, made it available and easy to use by everybody. But the first inflection point was generative, as you mentioned. The ability to translate -- convert information from one form to another form and auto regressively generate tokens.

And the second -- but of course, the problem with generative AI is that -- that it's prone to hallucinate. And the reason for that is because -- not because there's something fundamentally wrong with the technology, not because it didn't -- it didn't learn all the right things, but because it's not grounded on contextual information. It's not grounded on relevant information. And so the second thing that happened was 01 and reasoning came about. But behind 01 is also grounding on research, grounding on truth, and the ability to have -- to combine generative with semantic, we call it retrieval augmented generation, but basically conditional generation, okay? Conditional generation, meaning that what you're about to generate depends on context and ground truth or whatever research or whatever it is.

And so the second generation introduced reasoning, self-reflection, the ability to self-correct because sometimes what comes out in your mouth, you kind of wish it you pull back and you go -- and so in the case of AI, it has the ability to do that in real time. And so 01 became much more grounded and the information that was generated was more reliable.

So what happened? What came out as a curiosity and the incredible excitement in the tech industry, jumping on to it because we realize what's about -- what can happen. The next phase of it, the usefulness of ChatGPT just skyrocketed. But the amount of tokens that it generated was much, much more than the first generation, maybe 100x more tokens. The model is maybe 10x larger. So it's probably something like 1,000x more compute. So from 01 over ChatGPT, call it 1,000x. And then because it was so useful, maybe 1 million times more usage, okay? So the combination of usage and its usefulness and groundedness allows us to -- we saw that next phase of growth.

But in the end, what 01 did was it provided information, essentially a chatbot that was much more factual. It was informational. And of course, for many of us, we use it for research, and we use it all the time. Instead of searching, our goal isn't to search, our goal is to get answers. And so ChatGPT gave us that. That was kind of the second inflection.

The inflection that we're seeing here also sat in plain sight for quite a long time. And it's basically the ability for AI to use files, access files and use tools. And so now it could reason, it could think, it could use tools, it could solve problems. And it could do search, it could do planning. And so probably the biggest phenomenon that's happening, and if you're paying attention to it, I'm sure you are, OpenClaw is probably the single most important release of software probably ever. And if you look at OpenClaw and the adoption of it, Linux took, right, some 30 years to reach this level. OpenClaw in, what is it, 3 weeks has now surpassed Linux. It is now the single most downloaded open source software in history, and it took 3 weeks.

If you look at the line, even in semilog, this thing is straight up. It's vertical. It looks like the Y-axis. I've never seen anything like it, okay? It really looks like a Y-axis. And so what's happening now? You could give a problem statement, create, start with the prompt goes, create. The last prompt -- the way you kind of think about it, the last prompt was what is, when is, who is, right? That's the last prompt. This now prompt goes create, do, build, write, does that make sense. So what's happened. The last prompt was queries. This prompt are actions. They're tasks, do something for me. And you describe it as expressively as you like with a lot of intention and let it infer or very specific, and it goes off and it just churns, it just thinks. It goes off and it does research and it reads, it reads a manual. If it has to use a tool it has never used it before, it reads the manual of the tool. It goes off and studies what's on the web and it applies the tools and performs the task.

Now I just said we went from one generative prompt -- one generative response to now one that is 1,000x more tokens and agents, we call them at the company claws. These claws are now consuming what, 1 million times more tokens. They're running continuously in the background. We have a whole bunch of claws in the company. And they're all continuously running, doing things for us, writing -- developing tools, developing software. And so now the question is the implication. The amount of compute in our company that we need has just skyrocketed. The amount of compute every company needs is skyrocketing.

So in that context, I think over the last few days, it's come out certainly at Morgan Stanley as a user, maximum bullish on tokens, maximum bullish on doing and creating. It does require the compute you just mentioned. And the question is around the financing and the CapEx around that to support that extraordinary large compute. How does it all get financed as you see it from a sort of top of the ecosystem? And how do the factory -- AI factory economics play out and evolve going forward?

And so there's a couple of thoughts that's really important. Remember, I appreciate you using the word factory. Several years ago, I described that these new -- these data centers, what people call data centers, is not for storing data as in a data center. They are producing tokens. And so a facility, a plant with the fundamental purpose of producing tokens is a factory. It's an AI factory. And at that time people said, Jensen that sounds so grungy. It's clean. And -- but it produces tokens. And nobody likes to build data centers because who knows what kind of return you're going to get on a data center, but everybody loves building factories. And the reason for that is because factories make money.

And we now know for certain that these factories directly generate tokens, and these tokens are monetizable. And the more compute you have, the more tokens you can produce, the more tokens you produce, the greater your top line. We now know for certain -- we now know for certain that company's revenues are directly correlated to compute. And we know that for a fact because if Anthropic had 3x more compute, their revenues will be 3x higher. We know that. We know that Anthropic is compute limited, factory limited. It's no different than Mercedes being factory limited or any company being factory limited. And so if they had more compute in their factories, they will have higher revenues.

If OpenAI had -- right now had more compute, they will have higher revenues. And so the first thought is that compute equals revenues. Now the big idea, of course, compute equals GDP, that we also know. Compute equals a country's GDP. And so that's one thought.

The second thought, the reason why NVIDIA is so successful is because we engineer these systems full stack end to end, and they're architected from the ground up to generate tokens at incredible effectiveness. NVIDIA's tokens per watt is an order of magnitude, an order of magnitude ahead of the competition, alternative.

Tokens per watt. Now what does that mean? Remember, your factory has 1 gigawatt. And if your tokens per watt is 10x the alternative, your revenues are 10x the alternative. For the very first time in history, the computer architecture chosen in a factory -- in a company's factory must go through CEO review, no question about it. That company only has a gigawatt or 2.3 gigawatts for next year. If they put the wrong system inside, it will affect their revenues the next year. I promise you that, and we see it. And so our architecture being so advanced now and pulling further and further ahead, those are probably one of the most exhaustive benchmarking done by a firm called SemiAnalysis, and they declared NVIDIA inference King. Inference King inference is tokens per second, tokens per watt. It's about generating tokens and tokens per dollar. When our performance per watt or per anything is so much ahead of the competition or the alternative, our tokens per dollar is also the best, which means we're the cheapest tokens you can produce today, not even close, an order of magnitude better.

And so that's the second thought. The second big idea for AI is AI is a factory because factories are power limited always. It doesn't matter how many plants you have. Each plant is still 100 megawatts or gigawatt. And therefore, tokens per watt is the single most important thing for the top line of companies. and they have to make those decisions very, very carefully. It's no longer just about PowerPoint slides. You're not going to go put $50 billion down on somebody's PowerPoint slides.

So the token demand is extraordinary, as you just mentioned. We're seeing it in your numbers, right? I think I mentioned $46 billion in net income, but $70 billion in revenue...

You're going to ask me something about how to fund it. Can I just tell you how to fund it? First of all, I just told you the reason why you have to build these factories in the future is because you either -- you just believe that, one, software is important. And so I hope this audience believes software is important. Software runs the world. The first thought.

The second idea is this. There will be no software in the future that's not agentic. Do you guys agree with that? How could you have software that's dumb? And so it is absolutely true that every software company will become an agentic company. They're going to simultaneously use open models, okay? Open models mean the ones that they download themselves and they fine-tune themselves, they're also going to use closed models. The combination of all that, just like we -- in all of our companies, we have employees that we hire. We have employees that we're grooming. We have contractors that we bring in. We have specialists like yourself that we bring into the company to do our work. Our job is not to do the job. Our job is to have to job be done. That's what every company does.

And so therefore, every company will realize that these AI models, some of it you rent, some of it you build. That's not illogical, just like biological workers, you will do that with digital workers. And so every single software company in the future will no longer just rent tools, but they'll rent also experts to use the tools. They'll not just rent tools, but rent experts that use those tools because their agents are going to be extremely good at using their specialized tools.

And so every single software company -- what is the IT industry can pull trillion dollars. Today, they're tool renters. In the future, they will, of course, have -- they'll rent agents that use those tools, which means that the software industry in the future will be much larger than the software industry of today. You pick your favorite software companies, and I can imagine a much, much larger future for them. Cadence is going to be much larger. Synopsys is going to be much larger. Siemens is going to be much larger in the future. But their business profile will change because today, they're basically a software licensing company. In the future, they will also rent tokens, specialized tokens, which also means that, that $2 trillion industry today with no token consumption in the future will be extraordinary token consumers. That's where that money is going to come from.

They're -- all of those software -- the IT industry of today, not the enterprise companies, the IT industry alone is going to shift an enormous -- it's going to consume enormous amounts of tokens in the clouds and they're either open models or [indiscernible].

So that extraordinary token economy is facing some constraints. So we've got memory constraints. We've got power permitting constraints. I was in Texas with builders. We have electrician constraints. How do you see that playing out? Satya raised it in the last session, you're closer to it. And also, if it takes a little longer, is it still okay? Or is it really negative if we just -- if the cycle on building this extraordinary...

I love constraints. I love constraints. And the reason for that is because in a world of constraint, you have no choice but to choose the best. You can't squander your choice. If the data centers -- if the land power and shell is constrained, you're not going to randomly put something in there just to try it out. You're going to put something that you know for certain is going to deliver the tokens per watt, that you know for certain is going to allow you -- from the moment you secure the capacity, we're going to be able to stand up an entire factory for you. We're the only company in the world that can come into your company and help you stand up an entire AI factory.

So anybody here that needs an AI factory and you need -- I'm happy to help. You call one person and that one person comes in and the next thing you know, you're in the AI factory business, okay? And so we have the expertise. We know the architecture works. We know there's enormous demand for the architecture after you're done standing it up, so we can help you get into business. And so when you're constrained that way, you have no choice but to make the best choice because your revenues next year is directly correlated to it.

And this is one of those questions now for all the CEOs that are in the cloud -- they're cloud service providers or software providers, if they make poor choices, this is no different than me choosing the wrong foundry. This is no different than me choosing the wrong memory, the wrong anything because I have so little -- everything is so constrained. If I choose poorly, my revenues are affected, everything is affected. And so they can't choose poorly.

The second thing is NVIDIA is, as you mentioned, working at such a large scale. Our supply chain, one of the things that we do with our money, of course, is to secure our supply chain. One of the things that we do with our capital is to secure supply chain so that when Satya asked me to help them stand up a few gigawatts, the answer is no problem. And the reason for that is I got all the memories, I've got all the wafers, I got all the CoWoS. I've got all the packaging, I've got all the systems, I've got all the connectors, I got all the cables. Everything from copper to multilayer ceramic capacitors, everything is secured. That's one of the reasons why NVIDIA's balance sheet being strong is so strategic.

A strong balance sheet today is not only helpful, it's strategic. And so you look at the amount of revenues we're shipping into, just look backwards and look at the amount of supply chain capacity we had to go secure for that they have to believe. If you set up a factory, a plant -- a DRAM plant, and I come in and say, you know what, go ahead and set up the DRAM plant because I'm going to use it. That goes a long ways. You might as well take that to the bank, as many of them have. And so -- and so I think the fact that everything is scarce is fantastic for us.

I think it does create duration, which I think is extraordinarily powerful for you. I think just another layer, which is the ecosystem, you're one of the great -- you are the greatest cash flow generating company in history. And then you've taken that capital and really created it, feels like stability, diversity in the ecosystem. And so how do you think about that in both a financial and a strategic context as you build, I think, both duration and durability in the entire ecosystem?

Yes. When Mark took me public, I think it was probably a little bit less energetic than I was delivering it just now. But I am fairly certain I said all the same things. NVIDIA has been building -- remember, accelerated computing requires that I build an ecosystem. You can't just take code and decompile it and it works. There's no such thing as a universal accelerated computing system. Accelerated computing is by definition proprietary. There is nothing about our architecture that is compatible with somebody else's. It's just not. The instruction set is different, the architecture is different, the micro-architecture is different, everything is different. And so we hide it underneath these things in such a way that makes you feel like and because of NVIDIA, we accelerate everything from data processing, molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics, particle systems, biology, chemicals, all the way to deep learning, right? Robotics, long sequence, spatial, 3D, you name it, right?

Sounds like a 5-layer cake?

It's a 5-layer cake, right, exactly. But because we've been working on it so long, it looks like everything is accelerated. But it's not true. It's because I did it one at a time, one domain at a time that all of the important domains in the world are now fully accelerated. And so the thing that we do on the supply chain side, our balance sheet is incredibly valuable because it provides security for our customers. On the upstream side, I'm cultivating new ecosystems for the future. All these AI natives that I'm investing in, the companies that we're partnering with, these are expanding, extending the CUDA ecosystem. 100% of everything that we do is on top of CUDA. Every investment that we've made is on top of CUDA.

So recently, there was a question about, are we going to invest $100 billion in OpenAI. We just -- just for everybody's update, we finalized our agreement. We're going to invest $30 billion in OpenAI. I think the opportunity to invest $100 billion in OpenAI is probably not in the cards. And the reason for that is because they're going to go public. And so I'm fairly sure that if we provide the capacity they need, which the compute capacity they need, which we're ramping up hard to go to, the revenues will more than follow. And they're going to go public towards the end of the year. And so this might be the last time we'll have the opportunity to invest in a consequential company like this. And our $10 billion investment in Anthropic probably will be the last as well.

And speaking of that, one of the things that I wanted to make sure I told you guys this time and something new that you probably haven't internalized. You see all the news, you probably haven't internalized, some of the really great work that we did last year, the last 1.5 years or so, last year or so, we expanded OpenAI's capacity from Azure to OCI to now AWS. We expanded OpenAI's reach of capacity to AWS. We're ramping AWS like mad. We're ramping them as hard as we can so that OpenAI has accessed even more capacity. That's one.

The second thing that we did, and this was a really, really great outcome is we're now also working with Anthropic. And in the case of Anthropic, we're expanding their capacity as aggressively as we can at AWS as well as Azure. And so notice what we're doing in both -- they used to be one and one, now they're kind of cross product. But the amount of capacity that we're going to bring online for them, supporting their revenues, their quality of revenues are so good, we just need a lot more capacity for them. So I think that this is something that -- that is somewhat new.

And of course, the third thing that happened is a brand-new AI lab flashed into the world. Isn't that right? I don't -- nobody has mentioned them. A brand-new lab came into the world and they're going to need a few million GPUs, and that's MSL. And so that MSL is a net new on top of Meta. So we've worked with Meta a long time. MSL is a net new on top of META. And so these 3 things happened, 3 new growth vectors. OpenAI at AWS; Anthropic, totally at both AWS and Azure; and MSL. And so the -- our demand profile went from being incredibly high to higher than that.

Speaking of -- so speaking of more than that. There's Waymos everywhere. I want to walk my new dog with my new robot. Physical AI could be the next place. How does that take TAM and tokens to a whole another level for NVIDIA?

That's really great. AI is all the stuff that we're doing inside the building. But obviously, ultimately, the largest industries are outside the building. And that AI needs to be -- needs to have physical awareness, physical understanding. Causality, you push a bottle, it falls over and understands gravity, understands collision, understands inertia, understand those things, okay? And understand, for example, object permanence. I take this and I put it behind my chair. In your mind, you can't see it, but you realize it hasn't disappeared, okay? So object permanence. Things like that, that affects physical behavior and physical intelligence fairly importantly.

And so -- so you probably also don't know this, that NVIDIA is the frontier of physical AI. Cosmos is the most downloaded physical AI model in the world. NVIDIA is also the frontier of autonomous AI, 2 versions, autonomous vehicle called Alpamayo, look it up, #1 downloaded. And then the next one GR00T, humanoid robotics physical AI. We are at the frontier on all 3 of those. We're also at the frontier of digital biology AI, look up La-Proteina, incredibly successful. La-Proteina for digital biology, there's a whole bunch of other models. GR00T N2 is now #1 most downloaded humanoid robotics model in the world.

And so we are at the frontier on physical AI, physics, laws of physics, multiphysics, Earth-2. We're at the frontier of physical AI. That is physical AI and AI physics. And so this whole area of physical AI, NVIDIA defines the frontier. It is completely open. We open it because we want to enable every company, new or old industry to be able to take advantage of this capability. And we've got the whole stack and the necessary computers for you to advance the AI for your own use as well as deploy it inside a robot, inside a plant, at the edge, at a radio tower, deploy it everywhere. This is the next frontier.

In 2 years' time, we're going to be largely done talking about agentic AI because we're all going to be using it. In 2 years' time, and if you invite me back again...

Every year, every year.

We're going to be talking about all these new companies. Of course, we announced a very important one, a co-innovation lab with Lilly. There will be others. But this -- in order to set up Lilly's AI factory, unless you have the capabilities of NVIDIA and this full software stack and the capabilities of all the model and the expertise in that digital biology domain, how would you even do it? And so we're quite -- the things that we are building in the next couple of years, you'll see really come to fore. And we're going to be talking about physical AI for -- starting in the next couple of 2, 3 years and for a decade.

So the speed of innovation and the pace that you're operating in is truly extraordinary. So at the beginning of the week, my partner, Joe Moore made NVIDIA his #1 pick.

Is that right?

It's his #1 pick.

Thank you.

Thank you. Good timing, Joe.

33 years later.

How do you think about the stock? Do you think about the stock? Do you have perspectives on it? You're so extraordinarily important and busy around driving all this innovation for -- in essence, everything that's going on with 3,500 attendees, and we had $40 trillion of market cap here. How do you think about that?

Well, of course, I care about the stock. I care about shareholders. I care about our employees, I care about all of you. And you might be referring to -- we just had the best earnings of earnings in the history of earnings. Is that what you're saying? I think the -- I think somebody actually told me that this might be the single best print in the history of humanity. And I said it must be only recorded humanity. I'm sure somebody had better returns. But anyways, we had a very good quarter.

Listen, you can't hold the stock back. You can't hold it back. And the reason for that is very simple. Compute equals revenues for companies. In the future, every single company will need compute for revenues. I'll just make that prediction for now. Every single company will need compute for revenues. And the reason for that is because compute translates to intelligence, which translates to your digital workforce, which translates to your revenues. I am certain compute equals revenues. I'm certain also that compute equals GDP. Therefore, every country will have it because not one country in the future will say, guess what, we're going to opt out on intelligence. We've got -- I don't know what we got, but we don't need intelligence. That's the one thing we don't need, okay? And so if you need intelligence, you're going to need digital -- you're going to need AI, you're going to need compute. And so compute equals GDP. I know that for certain.

I also know that we're at the beginning of this journey. And I see crystal clearly exactly how it's going to get funded. We know for a fact that all the CSPs took all of their CapEx and they converted to generative agentic systems, AI systems because it helps search, because it helps shopping, because it helps ads, because it helps social, because it helps literally every single Internet service in the world has been reinvented into generative AI. So they could take a 100% -- the entire Internet industry could take 100% of their CapEx and make it AI because it's better. We've proven it to be better. Meta has proven to be better. Google has proven to be better. AWS has proven to be better. And so you can now take your CapEx and convert to this.

Number two, I just said the entire software industry will be token driven. The entire software industry, you pick your favorite software company, and I can show you exactly how they're going to be token driven. And that token -- that token -- you take your favorite software company, their token will be either produced by themselves, which needs compute or they could be resold from Anthropic or OpenAI and that needs compute. And so what that says for the first time is the entire IT industry will have to be fueled by compute. That's exactly where all this is going to come from, trillions of dollars of it, and we're at the beginning of that. So that's my prediction.

Thank you, Jensen, for making history at this conference, 27 years. Thank you.

Good afternoon. My name is Sarah, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to NVIDIA's Fourth Quarter Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]. Toshiya Hari, you may begin your conference.

Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to NVIDIA's conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026. With me today from NVIDIA are Jensen Huang, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Colette Kress, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Our call is being webcast live on NVIDIA's Investor Relations website. The webcast will be available for replay until the conference call to discuss our financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2027. The content of today's call is NVIDIA's property. It can't be reproduced or transcribed without prior written consent.

During this call, we may make forward-looking statements based on current expectations. These are subject to a number of significant risks and uncertainties our actual results may differ materially. For a discussion of factors that could affect our future financial results and business, please refer to the disclosure in today's earnings release, our most recent Forms 10-K and 10-Q and the reports that we may file on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All our statements are made as of today, February 25, 2026, based on information currently available to us. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update any such statements.

During this call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures. You can find a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures in our CFO commentary, which is posted on our website. With that, let me turn the call over to Colette.

Thanks, Toshiya. We delivered another outstanding quarter with record revenue, operating income and free cash flow. Total revenue of $68 billion was up 73% year-over-year, accelerating from Q3. Growth on a sequential basis was also a record as we added $11 billion in Data Center revenue across a diverse and expanding set of customers, including cloud providers, hyperscalers, AI model makers, enterprises and sovereign nations. Demand for our Blackwell architecture, extreme co-design at data center scale continues to strengthen as inference deployments grow in addition to training. The transition to accelerated computing and the infusion of AI across existing hyperscale workloads continue to fuel our growth.

Agentic and physical AI applications built on increasingly smarter and multimodal models are beginning to drive our financial performance. On a full year basis, Data Center generated revenue of $194 billion, up 68% year-over-year. We have now scaled our Data Center business by nearly 13x since the emergence ChatGPT in fiscal 2023. We look ahead, we expect sequential revenue growth throughout calendar 2026. And exceeding what was included in the $500 billion Blackwell and Rubin revenue opportunity we shared last year. We believe we have inventory and supply commitments in place to address future demand, including shipments extending into calendar 2027. Every data center is power-constrained. Customers make critical architectural decisions based on performance per watt given these constraints and the need to maximize AI factory revenue. Semi analysis declared NVIDIA and Inference King as recent results from Inference-X reinforced our inference leadership with GB300-NVL72, achieving up to 50x performance per watt and 35x lower cost per token compared with [indiscernible], and continuous optimization of CUDA software helped deliver up to 5x better performance on GB200/NVL72 just within 4 months. NVIDIA produces the lowest cost per token and data centers running on NVIDIA generate the highest revenues.

Our pace of innovation, particularly at our scale is unmatched, fueled by an annual R&D budget approaching $20 billion and our ability to extreme codesign across compute and networking across chips, systems, algorithms and softwares, we intend to deliver ex factor leaps and performance per watt average generation and extend our leadership position over the long term. Q4 data center revenue of $62 billion increased 75% year-over-year and 22% sequentially, driven primarily by sustained strength in Blackwell and the Blackwell Ultra ramp. With NVIDIA infrastructure in high demand, even hopper and much of the 6-year-old Ampere based products are sold out in the cloud.

Nearly a year has passed since the release of our Grace Blackwell NVLink 72 systems.

Today, nearly 9 gigawatts of infrastructure on Blackwell are deployed and consumed by the major cloud service providers, hyperscalers, AI model makers and enterprises. Networking, a cornerstone of our data center scale infrastructure offering, was a standout this quarter, generating $11 billion in revenue, up more than 3.5x year-over-year. Demand for our scale-up and scale-out technologies reached record levels, both growing double digits sequentially, driven by strong adoption of NVLink, Spectrum-X Ethernet and InfiniBand. On a year-over-year basis, growth was driven primarily by NVLink 72 scale-up switches as Grace Blackwell systems accounted for roughly 2/3 of data center revenue in the quarter. NVLink scale-up fabric has revolutionized computing and demonstrates the power of extreme co-design across all of the chips of the supercomputer and the full stack.

In Q4, we announced that we will enable AWS with NVLink to integrate with their custom silicon. Momentum is strong with our Spectrum-X Ethernet scale up and scale across networking as customers work to unify distributed data centers into integrated gigascale AI factories. For the full year, our networking business exceeded $31 billion in revenue, up more than 10x compared to fiscal [ 202 ]5, the year we acquired Mellanox. Our demand profile is broad, diverse and expanding beyond just chatbots. First, there is a fundamental platform shift from classical machine learning to generative AI. Strong evidence of ROI as hyperscalers upgrade massive traditional workloads to generative AI, including search, ad generation and content recommender systems is encouraging our largest customers to accelerate their capital spending. For example, at Meta, advancements in their GEM model drove a 3.5% increase in ad clicks on Facebook and more than 1% gain in conversations on Instagram, translating into meaningful revenue growth.

With the same NVIDIA infrastructure, Meta Super Intelligence Labs can train and deploy their frontier aggentic AI systems. Frontier AgEX systems have reached an inflection point. Cloud code, cloud cowork and OpenAI codecs have achieved useful intelligence. Adoption is skyrocketing and tokens are profitable, driving extreme urgency to scale up compute. Compute directly translates to intelligence and revenue growth. Analyst expectations for 2026 CapEx across the top 5 cloud providers and hyperscalers who collectively account for a little over 50% of our data center revenue are up nearly $120 billion since the start of the year and approaching $700 billion. We continue to expect the transition of classic data center workloads to GPU-accelerated computing and the use of AI to enhance today's hyperscale workloads and contribute toward roughly half of our long-term opportunity. Every country will build and operate some parts of its AI infrastructure, just like with electricity and Internet today. In fiscal year 2026, our sovereign AI business more than tripled year-over-year and over $30 billion, driven primarily by customers based in Canada, France, the Netherlands, Singapore and the U.K. Over the long run, we expect our sovereign opportunity to grow at

least in line with the AI infrastructure market as countries spend on AI proportional to their GDP. While small amounts of H200 products for China-based customers were approved by the U.S. government, we have yet to generate any revenue. And we do not know whether any imports will be allowed into China.

Our competitors in China bolstered by recent IPOs are making progress and have the potential to disrupt the structure of the global AI industry over the long term. To sustain its leadership position in AI compute [indiscernible] must engage every developer and be the platform for choice for every commercial business, including those in China. We will continue to engage with the U.S. and China government and advocate for America's ability to compete around the world.

We unveiled the Rubin platform last month at CES comprised of 6 new chips, the Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPUs, and Spectrum-6 Ethernet switch. The platform will train MOE models with 1/4 number of GPUs reduce inference token costs by up to 10x compared to Blackwell. We shipped our first Vera Rubin samples to customers earlier this week, and we remain on track to commence production shipments in the second half of the year. Based on its modular cable-free trade design, Rubin will deliver improved resiliency and serviceability relative to Blackwell. We expect every cloud model builder to deploy Vera Rubin.

Moving to gaming. Gaming revenue of $3.7 billion increased 47% year-on-year, driven by strong Blackwell demand and improved supply. GeForce RTX is the leading platform for PC gamers, creators and developers. In Q4, we added several new technologies and advancements, including DLSS 4.5, which uses AI to bring game visuals to a new level. G-SYNC Pulsar, bringing incredible clear graphics even in motion, and 35% faster LLM inference across leading AIPC frameworks. Looking ahead, while end demand for our products remain strong and channel inventory levels are healthy, we expect supply constraints to be the headwind to Gaming in Q1 and beyond.

For Professional Visualization, it crossed the $1 billion mark for the first time, with revenue of $1.3 billion, up 159% year-over-year and 74% sequentially. During the quarter, we launched the RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell Workstation with 72 gigabites of fast memory for AI [indiscernible] AI developers running LMs and agentic workflows.

Automotive revenue of $604 million was up year-over-year and was driven by robust demand for self-driving solutions. At CES, we introduced Alpamayo, the world's first open portfolio of reasoning-vision-language-action models, simulation blueprints and data sets, enabling vehicles that can think. The first passenger car featuring Alpamyo built on NVIDIA drive, will be on the road soon in the new Mercedes-Benz CLA. Physical AI is here having already contributed north of $6 billion in NVIDIA revenue in fiscal year 2026. Robotaxi rides are growing exponentially with commercial fleets from Waymo, Tesla, Uber, We Ride and Zukes, and many others are expected to scale from thousands of vehicles in 2025 to millions over the next decade, creating a market poised to generate hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue.

This expansion will demand orders of magnitude more compute with every major OEM and service provider developing on NVIDIA's platform. We continue to advance robotics development. With the new NVIDIA Cosmos and Isaac Group, open models, frameworks and NVIDIA's Howard Robots and autonomous machines for leading [indiscernible] companies, including Boston Dynamics Caterpillar, Franca Robotics, LG Electronics and Neuro Robotics. To accelerate industrial physical AI adoption, we also announced new expanding partnerships with Dassault Systemes, Siemens and Synopsis to bring NVIDIA AI infrastructure Omniverse digital twins, World models and CUDA-X libraries to millions of researchers, designers and engineers building the world's industries.

Let's move to the rest of the P&L. GAAP gross margin was 75% and non-GAAP gross margin was 75.2%, increasing sequentially as Blackwell continue to ramp. GAAP operating expenses were up 16% sequentially and up 21% on a non-GAAP basis related to new product introductions and compute and infrastructure costs. Non-GAAP effective tax rate for the fourth quarter was 15.4%, below our outlook for the quarter, primarily due to the impact of a onetime tax benefit. Inventory grew 8% quarter-over-quarter, while purchase commitments also increased significantly, and we have strategically secured inventory and capacity to meet demand beyond the next several quarters. This is further out in time than usual and reflects the longer demand visibility we have.

While we expect tightness in the supply for our advanced architectures to persist, we remain confident in our ability to capitalize on the growth opportunity ahead with our scale, expansive supply chain and the long-standing partnerships continuing to serve us well.

We generated free cash flow of $35 billion in Q4 and $97 billion in fiscal year 2026. For the year, we returned $41 billion or 43% of free cash flow to our shareholders in the form of share repurchases and dividends. We continue to invest in technology and our ecosystem to cultivate market development, drive long-term growth and ultimately yield total shareholder returns superior to the market or our peer group.

Importantly, we will continue to run a strategic and disciplined process as it relates to our investments and we remain committed to returning capital to our shareholders.

Let me turn to the outlook for the first quarter. Starting this quarter, we will be including stock-based compensation expense in our non-GAAP results. Stock-based compensation is a foundational component of our compensation program to attract and retain world-class talent. Let me first start with revenue. So revenue is expected to be $78 billion, plus or minus 2%. We expect most of our growth to be driven by Data Center. Consistent with last quarter, we are not assuming any Data Center Compute revenue from China in our outlook. GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be 74.9% and 75%, respectively, plus or minus 50 basis points. For the full year, we continue to see gross margins in the mid-70s. We will keep you updated on our progress as we prepare for the Vera Rubin transition.

GAAP and non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $7.7 billion and $7.5 billion, respectively, including stock-based compensation expense of $1.9 billion. For the full year, we expect non-GAAP operating expenses to grow in the low 40s on a year-over-year basis as we continue to invest in our expanding opportunity set. For the full year fiscal year '27, we expect GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates to be in between 7% and 19%, excluding any discrete items and material changes to our tax environment.

With that, let me turn the call over to Jensen. I think he has a few words for us.

This quarter, we significantly deepened and expanded our partnerships with leading frontier model makers. We recently celebrated OpenAI's launch of GPT-5.3-Codex codecs trained with and inferencing on Grace Blackwell NVLink 72 systems. GPT-5.3-Codex can take on long running tasks that involve research, tool use and complex execution. 5.3-Codex is deployed broadly inside NVIDIA. Our engineers love it.

We continue to work with OpenAI toward a partnership agreement and believe we are close. We are thrilled with our ongoing partnership with OpenAI, a once-in-a-generation company we've had the pleasure of partnering with since their first days. Meta SuperIntelligence Labs is scaling up at lightning speed. Last week, we announced that Meta is deploying millions of Blackwells and Rubin GPUs. NVIDIA CPUs and Spectrum-X Ethernet for training and inference.

This quarter, we announced a partnership with Anthropic and a $10 billion investment in their company. Anthropic will train an inference on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin system. Anthropic's Claude Code Work agent platform is revolutionary and has opened up floodgates for enterprise AI adoption. Between Claude Code Work and OpenClaw, compute demand is skyrocketing and chatGPT moment of agentic AI has arrived. With partnership spanning Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI and xAI, NVIDIA deployed across every cloud and with our ability to build full stack AI infrastructure from the ground up, or support them in the cloud. We're uniquely positioned to partner with frontier model builders at every stage, training, inference and AI factory scale out.

Finally, we recently entered into a nonexclusive licensing agreement with Grok for its low latency inference technology and welcome the team of brilliant engineers to NVIDIA. As we did with [ Mellanox ] we will extend NVIDIA's architecture with Grok innovations to enable new levels of AI infrastructure performance and value. We look forward to sharing more at GTC next month. Okay, back to you.

We will now transition to Q&A. Operator, please poll for questions.

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from Vivek Arya with Bank of America Securities.

I think you mentioned that you now have growth visibility into calendar '27 also, and I think your purchase commitments kind of reflect that confidence.

But Jensen, I'm curious, when you look at your top cloud customers, cloud CapEx close to $700 billion this year, many investors are concerned that it would be harder for this level to grow into next year. And for several of them, their cash flow generation capability is also getting compressed. So I know you're very confident about your road map, right, and your purchase commitments and whatnot, but how confident are you about your customers' ability to continue to grow their CapEx? And if their CapEx doesn't grow can NVIDIA still find a way to grow in that envelope?

I am confident in their cash flow growing. And the reason for that is very simple. We have now seen the inflection of agentic AI and the usefulness of agents across the world and enterprises everywhere. You're seeing incredible compute demand because of it. In this new world of AI, compute is revenues. Well, compute, there's no way to generate tokens. Without tokens, there's no way to grow revenues. So in this new world of AI compute equals revenues. And I am certain that at this point with the productive use of Codex and Claude Code and the excitement around Claude CoWork and just the incredible enthusiasm about OpenClaw and the enterprise versions of them. All of the enterprise ISVs who are now working on agentic systems on top of their tools platforms.

I am certain at this point that we are at the inflection point, we've reached the inflection point and we're generating profitable tokens that are productive for customers and profitable for the cloud service providers. And so the simple logic of it, the simple way to think about it, is computing has changed. What used to be software running on computers, modest amount of computers, call it, $300 billion or $400 billion worth of CapEx each year has now gone into AI and AI in order to have -- in order to generate tokens, you need compute capacity. And that translates directly to growth and that translates directly to revenues.

Your next question comes from Joe Moore with Morgan Stanley.

Congratulations on the numbers.You talked about some of the strategic investments that you've made into Anthropic and potentially OpenAI [indiscernible] as well but also partners, Intel, Nokia, Synopsis. You're clearly at the center of everything. Can you talk about the role of those investments? And kind of how do you view the balance sheet as a tool to kind of grow the NVIDIA's position in the ecosystem and participate in that growth?

As you know, fundamentally, at the core of everything NVIDIA is our ecosystem. That's what everybody loves about our business. The richness of our ecosystem, just about every start-up in the world is working on NVIDIA's ecosystem -- on NVIDIA's platform. We're in every cloud. We're in every on-prem data center. We're all over the world's edge and robotic systems. Thousands of AI natives are built on top of NVIDIA. We want to take the great opportunity that we have as we're in the beginning of this new computing era, this new computing platform shift to put everybody on NVIDIA. Everything is already built on CUDA, and so we're starting from a really terrific starting point.

But as we build out the entire AI ecosystem, whether it's an AI for language or physical AI or AI physics or biology or robotics for manufacturing, we want all of these ecosystems to be built on top of NVIDIA. And this is such a wonderful opportunity for us to invest into the ecosystem across the entire stack. Our ecosystem is also richer today than it used to be.

We used to be largely a computing platform on GPUs, but now we're computing AI infrastructure company, and we have computing platforms on, well, every aspect of that. and everything from computing to AI models to networking to our DPU, all of that has computing stacks on top of it. And as I mentioned before, whether it's an enterprise or in manufacturing, industrial or science or robotics, each one of these ecosystems have different stacks. And we want to make sure that we continue to invest into our ecosystem. So our investments are focused very squarely, strategically on expanding and deepening our ecosystem reach.

Your next question comes from Harlan Sur with JPMorgan.

Networking continues to rise as a percentage of your overall Data Center profile, right? Through fiscal '26, your networking revenues accelerated on a year-over-year basis every single quarter, right, with 3.6x growth, as you guys mentioned, year-over-year growth in Q4. Obviously, on the strength of your scale-up and scale-out networking product portfolio, we seem to remember that first half of last year, your annualized run rate on your Spectrum-X Ethernet Switching platform was around $10 billion annualized. It looks like that may have stepped up to around $11 billion, $12 billion in the second half of last year. Jensen, looking at your order book, especially with Spectrum-XGS, upcoming 102T Spectrum 6 Switching platforms launching soon. What is the Spectrum run rate trending now and as you foresee exiting sort of this calendar year?

Yes. As you know, we see ourselves as an AI infrastructure company. And the AI computing infrastructure includes CPUs, GPUs, and we invented NVLink to scale up -- one computing node into a giant computing rack. We invented the idea of a rack scale computer. We don't ship nodes of computers. We ship racks of computers. And those -- the NVLink Switch scale-up system is then scaled-out using Spectrum-X and [indiscernible]. We support both. And then further, we also scale across data centers using Spectrum X scale-across. And so the way we think about networking is really an extension, we offer everything openly so that people could decide to mix and manage in different scale and however they would like to integrate it into their bespoke data center. But in the final analysis, it's all one big part of our platform.

And the invention of NVLink really turbocharged our Networking business. Every rack comes with 9 nodes of Switches. And each of them has 2 chips in it. And in the future, they'll have more. And so the amount of switching that we do per rack is really quite incredible. And we're also now the largest networking company in the world and if you look at Ethernet, we came into the Ethernet market about a couple of years ago into Ethernet Switching. And I think that we're probably the largest Ethernet networking company in the world today and surely will be soon.

And so Spectrum X Ethernet has been a home run for us. But we're open to however people want to do networking. Some people just really love the low latency and the scale-up capability of InfiniBand and we'll continue to support that, of course. And to some people love to integrate their networking across their data center based on Ethernet, and we created an Ethernet capability that extends Ethernet with artificial intelligence, a way of processing in the data center, and we're incredibly good at that. And our Spectrum-X performance really shows it. The difference of when you built a $10 billion or $20 billion AI factory, the difference of 10%, and it could be easily 20% on the effectiveness and the utilization of your network for your data center, that translates to real money. And so NVIDIA's Networking business is really growing fast. And I think it's just because because we built the AI infrastructure so effectively and the AI infrastructure business is growing incredibly fast.

Your next question comes from CJ Muse with Cantor Fitzgerald.

I guess with CPX for large context Windows and Grok likely adding a decode-specific solution. Curious how we should think about your future road map? Should we be thinking about customized silicon either by workload or customer as an increasing focus by NVIDIA particularly helped by your move to dilate architecture?

We don't use -- we want to everybody should want to extend, push out [indiscernible] as long as they can. And the reason for that is because every time you cross a [indiscernible], you have [indiscernible], you have to cross an interface. Every time you cross an interface, you add latency, you add power unnecessarily. We're not allergic to [ dialets ]. We use dilates already, but we try to use dilates only when we absolutely have no choice but to do so. And so we -- if you look at the Grace Blackwall architecture and the Rubin architecture, we use 2 giant reticle-limited dies and we have [indiscernible] and that reduces the amount of architecture crossing. The [indiscernible] shows up in the architecture effectiveness of the competitors. If you look at NVIDIA, people call it our software advantage, but where software starts and architecture starts and ends, it's kind of hard to tell. It's -- our software is effective because our architecture is so good.

And so the CUDA architecture is unquestionably more effective, more efficient, delivers more performance per flop, per watt than any computing architecture out there, and it's because of the way we architect. With respect to how we think about Grok and the low latency decoder, I've got some great ideas that I'd like to share with you at GTC. But the simple idea is that our infrastructure is incredibly versatile because of CUDA, and we're going to continue to do that. All of our GPUs are architecturally compatible which means that when I'm working on optimizing models today for Blackwell, all of that work and all that dedication to optimizing software stacks and new models also benefit Hopper and also benefit Ampere. It's the reason why A100 continues to feel fresh and continues to stay performing years after we've deployed it into the world. Architecture compatibility allows us to do that. It allows us to invest enormously in software engineering and optimization knowing that our entire installed base in the cloud, on-prem everywhere from generations of architectures GPUs will all benefit.

And so we'll continue to do that, and allows us to extend the useful life, allows us to have innovation, flexibility and velocity, which translates to performance and very importantly, performance per dollar and performance per watt for our customers. And so what we'll do with Grok is you'll come to see GTC, but what we'll do is we'll extend our architecture with Grok as an accelerator in very much the way that we extended NVIDIA's architecture with Mellanox.

The next question comes from Stacy Rasgon with Bernstein Research.

Colette, I wanted to dig a little bit into the call for sequential growth through the year. So I mean, you grew this quarter more than $10 billion sequentially in Data Center and the guidance seems to imply the bulk of the increased $10 billion sequential in Data Center and so on. How do you see that as we go through the year, especially as Rubin ramps into the back half? Blackwell as been a pretty massive acceleration for sequential growth. Should we expect something similar as we get to Rubin.

And then I was also just hoping you could comment on your expectations for Gaming. I understand the memory issues and everything else. Do you think gaming can still grow year-over-year in fiscal '27? Or will that be under more pressure given memory? So those two questions, please.

Thanks, Stacy. Let me start with the revenue going forward. Again, we're trying to look at revenue quarter-by-quarter. As you think about the full year, we are absolutely going to be still selling and providing Blackwell, probably at the same time that we're also seeing Vera Rubin come to market. This is a very great architecture that helps them just today quickly standing up and have already planned on many different orders across the different customers to provide that. It's too early yet to determine how much in terms of that Vera Rubin, that beginning ramp will start in the second half, and we'll get through it. But no no confusion in terms of the strong demand and the interest. We do expect pretty much every single customer to be purchasing Vera Rubin.

The question is how soon are we in market and how soon are they able to stand that up in terms of in their data centers. That was your first part. The second part was focusing on our gaming. As much as we would love to have additional more supply, we do believe for a couple of quarters, it is going to be very tight. If things improve by the end of the year, there is an opportunity to think about what that is from a year-over-year growth. But it's still too early for us to know at this time, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

Your next question comes from Atif Malik with Citi.

Jensen, I'm curious if you can touch on the importance of CUDA as now more of the investment dollars in AI are coming from inference workloads.

Without CUDA, we wouldn't know what to do with inference. The entire stack from TensorRT LLM that we introduced a few years ago, which is still the most performant inference stack in the world, optimizing it for NVLink requires us to discover and invent new parallelization algorithms that sits on top of CUDA to distribute the workload and the inferencing to take advantage of the aggregate bandwidth across NVLink 72.

NVLink 72 has enabled us to deliver generationally 50x more performance per watt. It's just an incredible leap. And it's sensible. NVLink 72 is a great invention. It was hard to do. The creation of the switching technology, disaggregating the switches, building the system racks, all of that, we did it all in plain sight and everybody knew how hard it was for us to do. And -- but the results are incredible. So performance per watt is 50x, performance per dollar 35x. And so the leap in inference is incredible. It's very important -- it's really important to realize that inference equals revenues now for our customers. Because agents are generating so many tokens, and the results are so effective. When the agents are coding, it's off generating thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands because they're running for minutes to hours. And so these systems, these agentic systems are spaning off different agents, working as a team. The number of tokens that are being generated is really, really gone exponential.

And so we need to inference at a much higher speed. And when you're inferencing at a much higher speed and each one of those tokens are dollarized, it directly translates into revenues. And so inference equals -- inference performance equals revenues for our customers. For the data centers, inference tokens per watt translates directly to the revenues of the CSPs. And the reason for that -- it's because everybody is power limited. And so I mean, no matter how many data centers you have, each data center, 100 megawatts or 1 gigawatt has power limits. So the architecture that has the best performance per watt translates because each token, each -- the performance tokens per watt, each token is dollarized. -- tokens per watt translates to dollars per watt, which translates in a gigawatt directly to revenues.

And so you could see that every CSP understands us now, every hyperscaler understands this, that CapEx translates to compute. Compute with the right architecture translates to maximizing revenues and compute equals revenues. Without investing capacity today, without investing in compute, there cannot be revenue growth. And that, I think everybody understands. Compute equals revenues, choosing the right architecture is incredibly important. It's more than strategic now. It directly affects their earnings and choosing the right architecture, the one with the best performance per watt is literally everything.

Your next question comes from Ben Reitzes with Melius Research.

First, let me say kudos on including the stock comp in non-GAAP. I think that's a great move. But that isn't my question. My question is around gross margins and the sustainability of the mid-70s long term. Should we read into the visibility on supply being available into calendar '27 that it's sustainable until then? And then, Jensen, what about after that? Are there innovations in memory consumption you can unveil that makes us feel better about the ability to keep margins at that level for a long time?

The single most important lever of our gross margins is actually delivering generational leads to our customers. That is the single most important thing. If we could deliver generationally performance per watt that exceeds dramatically what Moore's Law can do, -- if we can deliver performance per dollar dramatically more than the cost of our systems than the price of our systems, then we can continue to sustain our gross margins. That's the simple most important concept.

Every -- the reason why we're moving so fast is because, number one, the demand for tokens in the world as a result of the inflection points that we've gone through has now -- has gone completely exponential. I think we're all seeing that to the point where even our 6-year-old GPUs in the cloud are completely consumed and the pricing is going up. And so we know that the amount of computation necessary, the amount of compute necessary for the modern way of doing software is growing exponentially. And so our strategy is to deliver an entire AI infrastructure every single year. This year, we introduced 6 new chips. Rubin next generation will do many new chips as well. And every single generation, we are committed to deliver many x factors of performance per watt and performance per dollar. And that pace and our ability to do extreme codesign allows us to deliver that value and that benefit to the customers. And that is the single most vital thing as it relates to our value delivered.

Your next question comes from Antoine Chkaiban with New Street Research.

I'd like to ask about space data centers, which some of your customers are considering. How feasible do you think that is on what kind of horizon? And what do the economics look like today? And how do you think that could evolve over time?

Well, the economics are poor today, but it's going to improve over time. As you know, the way that space works is radically different than how it works down here. There's an abundance of energy, but solar panels are large, but there's plenty of space in space. The heat dissipation, it's cold in space. However, there's no airflow. And so the only way to dissipate he is through conduction and the radiators that you need to create are fairly large. Liquid cooling is obviously out of the question because it's kind of -- it's heavy and freezes. And so the methods that we use here on earth are a little different than the way we would do it in space. But there are many different computing problems that really wants to be done in space. And so NVIDIA is already the world's first GPU in space, hoppers in space. And one of the best use cases of GPUs in space is imaging to be able to image at extremely high resolutions using, of course, optics and artificial intelligence.

And to be able to do that computation of reprojection of different angles and be able to up res and do noise reduction and just be able to see -- be able to image at very large -- very high resolutions, extremely large scales and very, very fast. It's hard to do that by sending petabytes and petabytes of imaging data back here on earth and doing that work. It's easier just to do it out in space. And then ignore all of the data collected and processed until you see something interesting. And so artificial intelligence and space will have very good, very interesting applications.

Your next question comes from Mark Lipacis with Evercore ISI.

I want to pick up on the comment you made on the script about revenue diversification. I believe, Colette, you said that hyperscalers were over 50% of revenues, but growth was led by the rest of your data center customers. And as a clarification, I just want to make sure I understood that does that imply your non-hyperscale customers grew faster? And if so, what are the -- can you help us understand what are the non-hyperscalers doing different? Are they doing different things than the hyperscalers? Are the same things on a different scale? And does this -- do you expect this trend to continue? Would you expect your customer base to evolve to a point where non-hyperscalers are become a bigger part of your -- the larger part of your business?

Yes. Let's see if we can help on this question. So when you think about our top 5, as we articulated as being our CSPs, our hyperscalers and they have right now added about 50% of our total revenue. There's a big organization, therefore, of diversity of all different other types of companies that we are working with, that it goes through our AI model makers that goes through our enterprises that goes to supercomputing. It goes to our sovereigns. There's a lot of other different facts on there. But you are correct. It's a very fast-growing area as well. We have a strong position in terms of all of our different cloud providers on our platform. And now we also have an extreme diversity of different customers that we are seeing all the way across the world. And this will really benefit seeing that diversity and being able to serve all of those parts. I'm going to see if Jensen wants to add to that?

Yes, this is one of the advantages that we have with our ecosystem, all build on top of CUDA. We have -- we're the only accelerated computing platform that is in every cloud that's available through every single computer maker available at the edge and we're now cultivating telecommunications. Obviously, the future radios will all be AI-driven radios and the future wireless network will also be a computing platform. That is a foregone conclusion, but somebody has to go and invent the technologies to make that possible. And we created a platform by Ariel to go do that. We're out in just about every single robot, every single self-driving car. Our ability, CUDA's ability to have the benefit of the performance of specialized processors on the one hand, with the tensor cores inside our GPUs.

On the other hand, the flexibility of CUDA allows us to solve language problems, computer vision problems, robotics problems to biology problems, physics problems and just about all kinds of AI and all kinds of computation algorithms. And so -- the diversity of our customer base is one of the greatest strengths that we have. The second thing, of course, is without our own ecosystem, even if our process was programmable, if we didn't cultivate our ecosystem and talking about some of the things that we're doing today, investing in our future ecosystem and continue to enhance our ecosystem without our ecosystem, it's hard for us to grow beyond what design wins we capture for somebody else's ecosystem. And so we could grow and expand our ecosystem very naturally because of our the platform that we created.

And then lastly, one of the things that's really important is the partnerships that we have with OpenAI and Anthropic with xAI with Meta now makes, and of course, just about every single open source in the world. There's 1.5 million AI models on Hugging Face. Not all of it runs on NVIDIA CUDA. And so -- and open source in totality probably represents the largest -- the second largest model in the world, OpenAI is the largest, second largest probably all the collection of all the open sources. And so NVIDIA's ability to run all of that makes our platform super fungible, super easy to use and really safe to invest into. And so that creates the diversity of customers and diversity of the platforms available in every single country because we support the whole world's ecosystem.

Your next question comes from Aaron Rakers with Wells Fargo.

Yes. I guess sticking with the idea of the platform and extreme codesign. Some of the news over this last quarter has obviously been NVIDIA's ability or push to bring Vera CPUs to market on a stand-alone solution basis. So I guess, Jensen, I'm curious what's the importance of Vera plays in this architecture evolution as we move forward? Is this being driven more by the proliferation or the heterogeniality of inference workloads? I'm just curious of how you see that evolving for NVIDIA, particularly on a stand-alone CPU basis?

Yes. Thanks. And I'll tell you some more about it at GTC. But at the highest level, we made fundamentally different architecture decisions about our CPUs compared to the rest of the world's CPUs. It's the only data center CPU that supports LPDDR5. It is designed to be focused on very high data processing capabilities. And the reason for that is because most of the computing problems that we're interested in are data-driven, artificial intelligence being one. And the single-threaded performance in this ratio with bandwidth is just off the charts.

And we made those architectural decisions because in the entire phase, the different phases of AI from data processing, before you even do training, you have to do data processing. So you have data processing, pre-training and in post-training now, the AIs are learning how to use tools. And the usage of tools, many of those tools run in CPU-only environments or they run in CPU with GPU-accelerated environment. And Vera was designed to be an excellent CPU for post-training. And so some of the use cases in the entire pipeline of artificial intelligence includes using a lot of CPUs. We love CPUs as well as GPUs. And when you accelerate the algorithms to the limit as we have, Amdahl's Law would suggest that you need really, really fast single-threaded CPUs, and that's the reason why we built Grace to be extraordinary to be great at single-threaded performance, and Vera is off the charts better than that.

Your next question comes from Tim Arcuri with UBS.

Colette I was wondering if you can talk about the deployment of capital. I know that you really jacked up the purchase commits, but it sounds like maybe you're over the hump on this, and you're going to probably generate about $100 billion in cash this year. So and pretty much no matter how good the results have been. The stock hasn't really gone up much. So I think it's -- that you probably feel like this is a pretty good price to be buying back a bunch of it here. So I was wondering if you can talk about that like question being, why not put a big stake in the ground and just have a huge share repo here?

So thanks for the question. We look at our capital return very, very carefully, and we do believe that one of the most important things that we can do is really supporting the extreme ecosystem that's in front of us, that stems from everywhere from our suppliers and the work that we need to do to assure that we can have the supply that's needed and help them from a capacity all the way that we are in terms of the early developers of the AI solutions that will be on our platform. So we will continue to make this a very important part of our process and strategic investments.

But of course, we are still repurchasing our stock. We are still with our dividend as well, and we will continue to find the right unique opportunities within the year for doing those different purchases.

Your final question comes from Jim Schneider with Goldman Sachs.

Jensen, you've previously outlined the potential to get to $3 billion to $4 trillion of Data Center CapEx by 2030, which implies a potential acceleration in growth rates, which you've sort of guided to at least this next quarter. The question is what are some of the key application areas that you believe are most likely to drive that inflection? Is that physical AI, agentic or something else? And do you still feel good about that $3 billion to $4 trillion envelope?

Yes. Let's back that up and just reason through it from a few different ways. So the first way is our first principles, the way that software is done in the future, using AI is token driven. And I think everybody talks about tokenomics and talks about data centers generating tokens and inference is about generating tokens and we generate tokens. We're just talking about tokens, how NVIDIA NVLink 72 enabled us to generate tokens at 50x better performance per unit energy than the previous generation. And so token generation is at the center of almost everything that relates to software in the future and it relates to computing.

If you look at the way we use computing in the past, however, the amount of computation demand for software in the past is a tiny fraction of what is necessary in the future. And AI is here, AI is not going to go back. AI is only get better from here. And so if you think about it and you said, okay, well, the world was investing about $300 billion or $400 billion a year in classical computing, and now AI is here and the amount of computation necessary is 1,000 times higher than the way we used to do computing. The computing demand is just a lot higher, and so if we continue to believe there's value in it, and we'll talk about that in a second, then the world will invest to produce that token.

And so the amount of token generation capability that the world needs is a lot more than $700 billion, and I'm fairly confident that we're going to continue to generate tokens. We're going to continue to invest in compute capacity from this point out. And fundamentally, because -- every single company depends on software. Every software will depend on AI. And so every company will produce tokens, and that's the reason why I call them AI factories. And whether you're a company in the cloud data centers, you have AI factories to generate tokens for your revenues. If you're an enterprise software company, you're going to generate tokens for the agentic systems that are on top of your tools. If you are a robotics factory and self-driving cars, first indication of that, you have huge supercomputers, which are basically AI factories to generate tokens that goes into your cars that becomes its AI. And then you also have to put computers inside the cars to continuously generate tokens.

And so we're fairly sure now that this is the future of computing. Now why is it so certain that this is the future of computing?

And the reason for that is because the way we used to do software was prerecorded, everything was captured [ in prior ]. We pre-compiled the software. We pre-write the content. We prerecord the videos. But now everything is generative in real time. And when it's generated in real time, you could take into context of the person, the situation, the query and the intentions could all be taken into consideration to generate the outcome of this new software called, we call AI, agentic AI. And so the amount of computation necessary is far, far greater than recorded. Just as a computer has a lot more computation capability than DVD recorder, a DVD player that was prerecorded, artificial intelligence needs a lot more computing capability than the way we used to do software in the past.

Now the question about computation about sustainability. At the first level is just at the computer science level, this is the way computing is going to be done. Now from an industrial level, because -- all of our companies in the final analysis are powered by software and the cloud companies are powered by software and if the new software requires tokens to be generated, and the tokens are monetized, then it stands to reason that their data center build-out directly drives their revenues. And so compute drives revenues. And I think they all understand that. I think people are increasingly starting to understand that as well.

And then lastly, the benefits that AI produces for the world ultimately has to generate revenues. And we're seeing right in front -- right being developed as we see, as we stand here, agentic AI has turned an inflection point, and it literally happened in the last couple of 2, 3 months. Of course, inside the industry, we've been seeing it for a while, probably 6 months or so. But the world is now awakened to the agentic AI inflection. The agents are super smart. They're solving real problems. Coding is obviously supported by agentic systems now and all of our coders here at NVIDIA are using agentic systems, either Claude Code or OpenAI-Codex, enormously to and oftentimes both and Cursor, oftentimes all 3, depends on the use case. But they have agents and codesign partners, engineering partners to help them solve problems. And you could see the revenue skyrocketing. These companies, in the case of Anthropic, I think their revenue is 10x in a year, and they are severely capacity constrained because the demand is just incredible, and the token demand is incredible. The token generation rate is growing exponentially. And the same thing with, of course, OpenAI, their demand is incredible. And so the more compute that they can stand online, bring online, the faster their revenues will grow.

And that goes back to the comment that I was saying that inference is revenues that compute equals revenues now in this new world. And in a lot of ways, that's the reason why we say it's a new industrial revolution. There are new factories, new infrastructure being build and this new way of doing computing is not going to go back. And so, to the extent that we believe that producing tokens is going to be the future of computing, which I believe and I think largely the industry believes, then we're going to be building out this capacity from this point forward and continue to expand from here.

Now the thing that is -- the wave that we're seeing now is the agentic AI inflection, and the next inflection beyond that is physical AI, where we take AI and these agentic systems into the physical applications, such as manufacturing, such as robotics. And so that's a giant opportunity ahead.

This concludes the question-and-answer session. I'll turn the call to Toshiya Hari.

In closing, please note Jensen will be participating in a fireside chat at the Morgan Stanley TMT Conference in San Francisco on March 4. He'll also be giving a keynote at GTC in San Jose on March 16. Our earnings call to discuss the results of our first quarter of fiscal 2027 is scheduled for May 20. Thank you for joining us today. Operator, please go ahead and close the call.

So first of all, thanks, everybody, for being here for an incredibly long day. We started this thing early this morning, and we had speaker after speaker, after speaker after speaker. And then we had about a 2.5-hour break, and they came back to see you. So...

I've been up since 1:00.

So this guy -- this guy is on the tail end of a 2-week trip in 4 or 5 different cities in Asia.

One day ago, I was in Taiwan. Last night, I was in Houston. Here I am.

But he's been going 2 weeks, and we're standing between him and his personal bed versus a hotel. So we're going to have fun, and then we're going to get them out here. So -- but you don't need much of an introduction, but thank you for being here, man.

Yes. Thank you.

We really appreciate it. And...

Thanks for partnership, and really proud of you guys.

So let's start with that. We have had a partnership and you introduced this whole concept of AI factories, and we're working on this together. It's probably not going as fast as either 1 of us would like in the enterprise space. But can we start by talking about what do you -- what is an AI factory to you?

So first of all, remember, we're reinventing computing for the first time in 60 years. What used to be explicit programming, right, we wrote the programs. And the variables that's passed through APIs are very explicit to implicit programming. You now tell the computer what your intent is and it goes off and it figures out how to solve your problem. So from explicit to implicit, from general-purpose computing, basically calculation to artificial intelligence. The entire computing stack has been reinvented.

Now people talk about computing where the processing layer is, which is where we are. But remember what computing is. There's computing, there's the processing, but there's storage, networking and security. All that is being reinvented as we speak. And so the first part is we need to develop AI to a level, and we'll talk about that. We need to develop AI to a level that is useful to people. And until now, chatbots, where you give it a prompt and it figures out what to tell you, is interesting and curious but not useful.

Helps me finish crossword puzzle sometimes.

Yes. And -- but only on things that it had memorized and generalized. So if you look -- go back in the beginning of -- I mean, it's literally only 3 years ago, when ChatGPT emerged that we thought, "Oh my gosh, it's able to generate all these words. It's able to create Shakespeare." But it's all based on things that it memorized and generalized. And -- but we know that intelligence is about solving problems. And solving problems is partly about knowing what you don't know. Partly about reasoning how to solve a problem you've never seen before, breaking it down into elements that you know how to solve very easily so that in its composition that you're able to solve problems that you've never seen before. .

And to come up with a strategy, what we call plan to performing a task, ask for help, use tools, do research, so on and so forth. These are all fundamental things that now in the phraseology of agentic AI, you've heard, Isn't that right? Tool use, research, retrievable augmented generation, which is grounded on facts, memory. These are all things that all of you in the context of talking about agentic AI, you're starting to hear. But the important thing is in order to evolve from general purpose computing, which is explicit programming, we wrote it in Fortran, we wrote in C, we wrote in C++ to...

COBOL.

That's right. That's good stuff. That's good stuff. Chuck? That's good stuff.

It's my fallback job.

That's good stuff. That's good stuff. Yes. That's 1 of those skills that remains valuable.

I know.

It remains valuable.

I've got a lot of offers.

Dinosaurs are valuable forever.

We just established that you're older than me.

I know. And I'm the prehistoric. It doesn't appear so, but it's true.

All right. Pretty good.

I'm probably the old person in this room.

So how do you -- so Jensen, let's talk a little bit about like as you think about the AI...

So here we are. I went to Chuck and I said, "Hey, listen, we need to reinvent computing and Cisco has got to be a big part of it." And so we've got -- we have a new whole computing stack coming out, Vera Rubin, and Cisco is going to be time to market with us on that. And so that's the computing layer, but there's also the networking layer. And Cisco is going to integrate AI networking technology from us, but put it into the Cisco Nexus plane, control plane so that from your perspective, you're going to get all the performance of AI, but in the controllability and security and the manageability of Cisco.

We're going to do the same thing with security. And so each 1 of these pillars has to be reinvented so that enterprise computing could take advantage of it. But ultimately, and we'll come back to this, hopefully, that why is it that enterprise AI wasn't ready 3 years ago and why it is that you have no choice but to get engaged as quickly as you can, okay? Don't fall behind. I think there's -- you don't have to be the first company to take advantage of AI, but don't be the last. Yes.

So if you're an enterprise today, what's your recommendation on the first, second, third step they should take to begin to get ready?

Well, I get questions like things like ROI. And I wouldn't go there. And the reason for that is because with all technology deployments in the beginning, it's hard to put into a spreadsheet, the ROI of a new tool, a new technology. But what I would do is I would go find out what is the single most -- what is the essence of my company? What's the most impactful work that we do in our company? Don't mess around. Don't mess around with peripheral stuff. I mean, in our company, we have -- we just let 1,000 flowers bloom. The number of different AI projects in our company, it's out of control, and it's great. Notice, I just said something. It's out of control and it's great.

Innovation is not always in control. If you want to be in control, first of all, you ought to seek therapy. But second, it's an illusion. You're not in control. If you want your company to succeed, you can't control it. You want to influence it, you can't control it. And so I think, number one, Too many people want it -- too many companies I hear. They want us explicit, they want it specific. They want demonstrable ROI. And showing the value of something worth doing in the beginning is hard. But what I would do -- what I would say is that let 1,000 flowers bloom, let people experiment, let the people experiment safely. And we're experimenting with all kinds of stuff in the company. We use Anthropic. We use Codex. We use Gemini. We use everything. And when 1 of our groups says, "I'm interested in using this AI, my first answer is yes, and I'll ask why." Instead of why then yes. I say yes, then why.

And the reason for that is because I want the same thing for my company that I want for my kids, go explore life. They say they want to try something. The answer is yes. And then I say, how come? You don't go, prove it to me. Prove to me that doing this very thing is going to lead to financial success or some happiness someday. Prove to me. And until you prove it to me, I'm not going to let you do it. We never do that at home, but we do it at work. Do you know what I'm saying?

Yes.

It makes no sense to me. And so the way that we treat AI and whether it's AI or the Internet before or cloud before, just let 1,000 flowers bloom. And then at some point, you have to use your own judgment to figure out when to start curating the garden because 1,000 flowers bloom makes for a messy garden. But at some point, you have to start curating to find what's the best approach or what's the best platform so that you could put all your wood behind 1 arrow. But you don't want to put all your work behind 1 arrow too soon. You pick the wrong arrow. So let 1,000 flowers bloom. At some point, you curate.

And so I haven't started curating yet, just to put it in perspective. I've got 1,000 flowers bloom everywhere, but I encourage everybody to try. However, I know exactly what is most important to our company. Of course, I do. What is the essence of our company, what are the most important work of our company? And I make sure that I've got a lot of expertise and a lot of capability focused on using AI to revolutionize that work.

In our case, chip design, software engineering, system engineering, notice -- you might have noticed that we partnered with Synopsys and Cadence and Siemens and today Dassault so that we could insert our technology and infuse as much technology as they want, whatever they want, whatever they need, I will provide so that I could revolutionize the tools by which we use to design what we do. We use Synopsys everywhere. We use Cadence everywhere. We use Siemens everywhere. We use Dassault everywhere. I will make sure that they have 1,000% of whatever they want so that I have the tools necessary so I could create the next generation. And so that tells you something about how I -- my attitude about what's most important to me and what I will do to revolutionize my own work.

Think about what AI does. AI reduces the cost of intelligence or create the abundance of intelligence by orders of magnitude. That's another way of saying what we used to do that takes 1 unit a time, what we used to take a year could take a day now. What we used to take a year, it could take an hour. It could be done in real time. And the reason for that is because we are in the world of abundance, Moore's Law, goodness, gracious, that was slow. That's like snails. Remember, Moore's Law was 2 times every 18 months, 10 times every 5 years, 100 times every 10, okay? But where are we now? 1 million times every 10 years.

In the last 10 years, we advanced AI so far that engineers said, "Hey, guess what, why don't we just train an AI model on all of the world's data." They didn't mean let's just collect all the data from my disk drive. Let's just -- let's pull down all of the world's data, and let's train an AI model. That's the definition of abundance. The definition of abundance is you look at a problem so big, and you say, you know what, I'll do it all. I'm going to cure every field of disease. I'm not going to just do cancer. Are you kidding me? That's insane. We'll just do all of human suffering. That's abundance.

When I think about engineering, when I think about the problem these days, I just assume my technology, my tool, my instrument, my spaceship is infinitely fast. How long is it going to take for me to go to New York? I'll be there in a second. So what would I do different if I can get to New York in a second? What would I do different if something used to take a year and then now takes real time. What would I do different if something used to weigh a lot. And now it's just antigravity. And so you approach everything with that attitude. When you approach everything with that attitude, you are applying AI sensibility.

Does that make sense? For example, there are many companies that we're working with, where the graph analytics, the dependency, the relationships and dependencies that these graphs, they have so many edges, so many nodes and edges, trillions of them. Back in the old days, you would process a graph, small pieces of it. These days, just give me the whole graph. How big is it? I don't care. That sensibility is being applied everywhere. If you're not applying that sensibility, you're doing it wrong. If speed matters? Not at all. You're at the speed of light. If mass is, you're at 0 weight, 0 gravity. If you're not applying that logic, if this something is not -- it's insanely hard to you in the past, and you go, yes, it doesn't matter. If you're not applying that logic, you're not doing it right.

Now imagine you apply that logic, that sensibility to the hardest problems in your company. That's how you're going to move the needle. And that's how they all think now. The people who are -- if you're not thinking that way, all you had to is just imagine your competitor is thinking that way. If you're not thinking that way, just imagine a company who is about to get founded is thinking that way. It changes everything. And so I would go find where are the most impactful work in your company, apply infinity to it, apply 0 to it, apply the speed of light to it. And then ask, Chuck, how to make that happen?

Now let's talk about how to make that happen. So you have this analogy of...

Just call me.

I'll call you.

We'll do it together.

You have this analogy, this 5-layer cake because everybody is talking about like infrastructure models, apps...

Yes. What is AI? Yes.

I mean how do I go about it? Talk about that a little bit.

Well, the first -- 1 of the things that successful people do is they reason about what is something. What's happening here? So almost 15 years ago, an algorithm was able to -- with 2 engineers, solve a computer vision problem. Computer vision is basically the first part of intelligence, perception. Intelligence is perception, reasoning, planning. Perception. What am I -- what's going on? What's my context? Reasoning? How do I reason about? How do I compare this to my goals?

And then three, come up with a plan to solve that, to achieve that, okay? And so that's -- so for example, the jet fighter problem, perception, localization and then action. And so intelligence is about those 3 things. You can't have the second and third part without perception. You can't understand -- you can't figure out what to do without understanding context. And context is highly multimodal. Sometimes it's a PDF, sometimes it's a spreadsheet, sometimes it's information, sometimes it's just senses and smells. Where are we? What are we doing here? Who's the audience? So on and so -- reading the room, so on and so forth, right? And so that's about perception.

And so about 13, 14 years ago, we made a huge, gigantic leap in computer vision, which is the first layer of the perception problem. And it was super hard. How do you solve computer vision? And AlexNet and the first breakthrough that we saw, it was kind of like the First Contact. I love that movie, the First Contact. It was like our first contact to AI. And the thing that we did was we said, okay, what does that mean? How is it possible that 2 engineers was able to overcome the algorithms that were -- that we worked -- all of us worked on for some 30 years. And Ilya Sutskever, I talked to him yesterday and Alex Krizhevsky -- and how is it possible? Two kids with a couple of GPUs, solved this problem. What does it mean? And so we broke it all down, and I reasoned about it a decade ago.

And I came to the conclusion that, in fact, most of the hard problems in the world that can be solved, can be solved, can be solved this way. And the reason for that is most of the hard problems in the world, most of the valuable problems have no principled algorithms. There's no F equals MA. There's no Maxwell's equation. There's no Schrodinger's equation. There's no Ohm's law. There's no -- it just doesn't exist. There's no law of thermodynamics. It's not that specific. Most of the valuable things that we call intuition and wisdom, and it's all the problems that -- Chuck, the type of problems that you and I get, the answer is it depends. Do you know what I'm talking about? If it was 3, it would be great, it was 3.14, it would be fantastic, okay? Those are the great ones. But most of the hard problems in life, most of the valuable problems in life are -- it depends because it depends on the context. It depends on the circumstance, context.

And so 12 years ago, 13 years ago, something like that, yes, computer vision was solved. And so we reason that, in fact, this could be scalable because of deep learning, and you can make that models larger and larger, and there was only 1 problem we had to solve, which is how do we train that model. And the big breakthrough was self-supervised learning or unsupervised learning. So AIs that goes and learns by itself. And notice, today, we're not limited by labeling anymore. We're not even close. And so that breakthrough opened up the floodgates for us to scale these models from a few hundred parameters -- a few hundred million parameters to billions to trillions. And the amount of knowledge we can codify, the number of skills we can learn algorithmically, really largely exploded. But the basic approach was the same.

And we reason that, in fact, we're going to reinvent and which is the beginning of our conversation, we're going to reinvent computing altogether from explicit programming to a new way of doing computing where the models, the software will be learned. Now what happens -- what does that mean? If you take another step back and you go, okay, what does that mean to the computing stack? What does it mean to -- what does it mean to how you develop software?

What has happened to the engineering organization in your company? What happens to the product marketing team that specifies the product? What happens to the engineering team that codifies the product? What happens to the QA team that evaluates the product? What do these products even become someday? How do we deploy the product? How do we keep it up to date? If you're learning if it based on machine learning, how do you keep it refreshed forever? How do you patch software? And so how do you -- so on and so forth.

The number of hows I asked about the future computing, it must have been 1,000 questions. And I came to the conclusion, our company came to the conclusion that this is going to change everything. And so we pivot the whole company based on that core belief. Simplistically, what Chuck is saying is that we came from a world where everything was prerecorded. The software that Chuck worked on is...

Really good stuff. It ran a very long time just for the record.

It was -- indeed, it was described in the Hebrew.

That is true. That was another skill. I mean COBOL and Hebrew, I mean...

Chuck is the only person in the room that knows Hebrew and COBOL. And so anyways, that was prerecorded. We engineer -- we describe our, we describe our thoughts. And then we put data that goes along with it. It's -- everything is prerecorded. The reason why it's prerecorded. The reason why you know software in the past was prerecorded is because it came in a CD ROM. Isn't that right?

It was prerecorded. Okay. What is software now? Because it's contextual, and every context is different. And every time everybody who uses the software is different and every prompt is different and all the -- and the precursor you give it, the priors you give it, the context is different. Every single instance of the software is different, which is the reason why the amount of computation necessary in the past, which is prerecorded, it's called retrieval based. All you have to do is check yourself. .

When you use your phone, you touch something, it went and retrieve some software, read some file, some images and brought it to you.

In the future, everything is going to be generative, just like it's happening right now. This conversation has never happened before. The concepts existed before. The priors existed before. But every single word in the sequence has never happened before. And the reason for that is, obviously, we're 4 wines in.

COBOL and Hebrew have never come out of the -- cold brew yes, COBOL, Hebrew, no.

Thank goodness. This is not on campus.

Or being streamed. All right. Let's...

Do you understand what I'm saying? And so as a result, as a result...

Do you understand what you're saying?

The only thing that Chuck has fed me today so far is 4 glasses of wine.

And to be fair, I only fed you -- I fed you 1 of them. You took the other 3 off the buffet.

I was eyeing the food. I was like, I'm so hungry, I'm eyeing the food. It was forever about 40 feet away from me.

Because you were taking photos.

But it was -- I was like it was so close. It was so close. And I actually leaned towards the food 1 time, but I was pushed back again.

You know what, you know what happened, your team -- your team actually told us ahead of time. If you get 3 glasses of wine in, he is optimal. If you get fourth wine in, it's going to be incredible.

This is suboptimal. So anyways, listen, listen, listen. So what is AI? We had to leave some wisdom behind.

Can we get another glass of wine, please?

This is not just Dave Chappelle stuff.

Let's talk about some -- let's talk about 1 other thing.

Energy, chips.

Energy sounds good.

Energy, chips, infrastructure, both hardware and software, then the AI model, but the most important part of AI is applications. Every single country, every single company, all that layer underneath is just infrastructure stuff. What you need to do is apply the technology. For God's sakes, apply the technology. A company that uses AI will not be in peril. It's the company who -- you're not going to lose your job to AI, you're going to lose your job to someone who uses AI. So get to it. That's the most important thing. And call Chuck as soon as possible.

You call me, I'll call him. You got it. So we don't have a lot of time. So I'm not sure...

We have all the time in the world.

Do we?

Chuck, he runs -- he bills on the clock. I don't even wear a watch. Look at that, Chuck.

I got you right here. We're doing great.

You bill people on the clock. Not me. I'm not leaving until value is delivered. If it takes all night, I'm not -- look, I won't torture all of you until...

But Jensen, that's why my guys like me need a watch. All right. Can you...

Until you could say that you learned something, you are going to be trapped in here. We're going to torture everybody until value is delivered.

I did check. There is more wine. Can you just give us your top of mind on physical AI?

Remember what software is. Software is a tool. There's this notion that the tool -- the software industry is in decline, and will be replaced by AI. You could tell because there's a whole bunch of software companies whose stock prices are under a lot of pressure because somehow AI is going to replace them. It is the most illogical thing in the world, and time will prove itself. Let's just give it -- let's give ourselves the ultimate thought experiment.

Suppose we are the ultimate AI, artificial general robotics, the ultimate AI, the physical version of us. You could, of course, solve any problem because you're humanoid, you could do things. If you were a humanoid robot, would you use a screwdriver or invent a new screwdriver? I would just use one. Would you use a hammer or invent a new hammer? Would you use a chainsaw or invent a new chainsaw? It just don't -- first of all, ideally, they don't use it at all. But do you understand what I'm saying? If you were a humanoid robot, artificial general robotics, would you use tools or reinvent tools?

The answer, obviously, is to use tools. And so now do the digital version of that. If you were an artificial general intelligence, would you use the tools like ServiceNow and SAP and Cadence and Synopsys? Or would you reinvent a calculator? Of course, you would just use a calculator. That's the reason why the latest breakthroughs in AI is what? Tool use, because the tools are designed to be explicit. There are many problems in our world where F equals MA. Please -- could you please not come up with another version? FA is not kind of MA, it's just MA? Do you guys -- Ohm's law, V equals IR, is not kind of IR, approximately IR, statistically IR. It is IR. Okay? Do you understand what I'm saying?

So I think we want the artificial general robotics, artificial general intelligence to use tools. Well, that's the big idea. I think that in the next generation of physical AI, we're going to have AIs that understand the physical world, understand causality if I tip this over, it's going to tip all of that over. They understand the concept of a domino -- just the concept of domino, notice a child understands if you tip that over. The concept of domino is extremely -- it's like deeply profound. The causality, contact, gravity, mass, all of that is integrated into a domino. Tipping a domino's over.

The idea that you could have a little tiny domino, tip a larger domino, tip a larger domino, tip a larger domino to the point where there's a ton on the other side, a child has no trouble with that concept.

A large language model will have no idea. And so we have to teach. We have to create a new type of physical AI. Well, what's the opportunity? So far, the industry that Chuck and I have been part of is about creating tools. We have been in the screwdriver, hammer business. Our entire life has been about creating screwdrivers and hammers. For the first time in history, we are going to create what people call labor, but augmented labor.

Give you an example. What is a self-driving car? It's a digital chauffeur. What's a digital chauffeur valued at? A lot. A lot more than the car. And the reason for that is because in the lifetime of the digital chauffeur, the economics of the digital chauffeur is a lot more than the car. For the very first time, we are exposed to a TAM that is 100x larger, literally, mathematically, true. The IT industry is about $1 trillion, right, or so, plus or minus a couple, and yet the economy of the world is about $100 trillion.

For the very first time, we're going to be exposed to all of that. So it is the case that all of you, all of you, everybody in this room today, you have the opportunity to apply this technology to become a technology company.

Let me give you some examples. I really believe as much as I -- look, I love Disney, and I love working with Disney. I'm pretty sure they'd rather be Netflix. I love Mercedes. I came in a Mercedes. I am certain they'd rather be Tesla. I love Walmart. I am certain they'd rather be Amazon. Do you guys agree so far? Am I 3 for 3? All of you are that way.

I believe that we have an opportunity to help transform every single company into a technology company. Technology first, technology first. Technology is your superpower and the domain is your application versus the other way, which is the domain is who you are, and you're seeking for technology. .

And the reason that's so -- the reason that's so is because companies who are technology first, you're dealing with electrons, not atoms. And electrons, there's a lot more of them. Atoms, you're limited by mass, which is the reason why the moment they went from CD ROMs to electrons, the value of the company exploded by 1,000 times. You need to be like us, an electronics company, electron company, which is another way of saying a technology company. And so I think that the opportunity for you is here.

Another way to think about that is AI, and we just said it earlier, even Chuck who only knows how to program in Hebrew.

It's a gift.

His instruments choices -- and right to left because, as you know, it's otherwise.

It is pretty smart actually.

Smart people do smart things. And so the beautiful thing is that, as you know, the programming language of the world and for all of your companies, you kind of feel like, "Oh my gosh, software is not our strength, but knowledge, intuition domain expertise is your strength." Well, you get to -- you now for the first time, can explain exactly what you want to a computer in your language. Do you remember where we started from explicit programming to implicit programming?

For the first time in history, you could program a computer implicitly. Just tell it what you want. Tell it what you mean. And the computer will write the code because coding as it turns out, is just typing and typing as it turns out, is a commodity. And that's the great opportunity for you. All of you could be levitated above the atomic limitations that you were limited by before. All of you could escape from this limitation, which is we don't have enough software engineers because as it turns out, typing is a commodity. And all of you have something of great value, which is domain expertise to understand the customer, understand the problem. And that is the ultimate value. That is the ultimate value, to understand the intent.

As you know, when you graduate from software -- when you graduate from college, you could be a super programmer, but you have no idea what customers want. You have no idea what problems to solve, but that's what all of you know. You know what customers want. You know what problems to solve. The coding part of it is easy. Just tell the AI to do it. And so that's your superpower. So Chuck and I are here to enable you to do that. That closing was done with 5 glasses of wine to me, and so it's a miracle indeed between somebody who works off a tablet...

This is true representation of artificial intelligence. Or maybe that's enhanced intelligence.

I just want to tell you that it's a great pleasure working with all of you. Cisco, as you know, has extreme expertise in 2 very important pillars of the invention of computing. Without Cisco, there is no modern computing. One of them is, of course, networking and the other one is security. And those -- both of those pillars have been reinvented in the world of AI. And the part that we know very well, which is the computing part of it, in a lot of ways, is a commodity. And the stuff that Cisco knows is deeply valuable. And between the 2 of us, we're going to -- we'll be delighted to help all of you engage the world of AI.

And then somebody asked me earlier, and I just said, I think it's worth repeating. Somebody asked me earlier, should you do -- just rent the cloud? Or should you even make the effort to build your own computer?

Here's what I would tell you. I would advise you to do exactly the same thing I'd advise my children, build a computer. Even though the PC is everywhere, even though it's mature, even though the technology is developed, for God's sakes, build one. Know why all the components exist. If you were to be in the world of the automotive -- the automobile industry to transportation industry, don't just use Uber. For God's sakes, lift a hood change the oil, understand all the components. For God's sakes, understand how it works. It is vital.

This technology is so important to the future. You must have some tactile -- tactical understanding of it. Lift the hood, change the oil, build something. It doesn't have to be large, build something. You might discover you're actually insanely good at it. You might discover that you need that skill. You might discover that the world is not about all rent versus all own, that you want to rent some and own some because some part of your company should be built on-prem.

For example, sovereignty and proprietary information. And you're just -- you're not comfortable. You're not comfortable sharing your questions to everybody. You know the reason why I've never -- this is a conceptual example. You know that when you go see a therapist, you don't want the questions to be online. You know what I'm saying, okay? I'm just -- I'm imagining this one. Okay. So hypothetically I think that a lot of questions that you have, a lot of conversations, you have, a lot of dialogue, a lot of uncertainties you have ought to be kept private.

Companies are the same way. I am not confident. I am not secure about putting all of NVIDIA's conversations in the cloud, which is the reason why we build it locally. We've built a super AI system locally because I'm just not confident to share that conversation because my -- as it turns out, the most valuable IP to me is not my answers. They're my questions. Are you following me? My questions are the most valuable IP to me. What I'm thinking about are my questions. The answers are a commodity. If I simply knew what to ask, I'm identifying what's important. And I don't want people to know what I think is important. And I want that to be in a small room. I want that to be on-prem. I want that to be my myself. But I want to create my own AI and then one last thought.

Since it's already 11:00. One last thought. There was an idea that AI should always have a human in the loop. It's exactly the wrong ideas, it's backwards. Every company should have AI in the loop. And the reason for that is because we want our company to be better and more valuable and more knowledgeable every single day. We never want to go backwards. We never want to go flat. We never want to start from beginning, which means that if we have AI in the loop, it will capture our life experience. Every single employee in the future will have AI, lots of AIs in the loop. And those AIs will become the company's intellectual property. That's the future company. And therefore, I think it's sensible for all of you to call Chuck immediately.

And I'll call Jensen.

Anyhow, that's my close.

Listen, let's -- 2 weeks on the road, Jensen flew here, spent his last night -- last evening with us before he gets a sleep in his bed for the first time in a long time. We're forever grateful. Appreciate you being here. Thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, man.

And from the corner of my eye, there were all these skewers. I hope it's still there.

Where is the bag of Fritos...

All right. Let's go. Thank you. Thank you, everybody.

All right. Good afternoon, and welcome to JPMorgan's 44th Annual Healthcare Conference here in San Francisco. My name is Harlan Sur. I'm the U.S. semiconductor analyst for the firm. For the seventh year, we have the team from NVIDIA presenting. As all of you know, NVIDIA is the leader in accelerated computing in AI semiconductor, software, systems, enabling the development and deployment of the world's AI foundational models, like large language models, enabling next-generation reasoning and agentic-based frameworks and now moving the industry adoption curve to physical AI and driving compute innovation for cloud, hyperscalers as well as large vertical markets like health care and life sciences.

Here with us today from NVIDIA is Kimberly Powell, Vice President and General Manager of Healthcare at NVIDIA. She's responsible for the company's worldwide health care business, including hardware and software platforms for accelerated compute and AI that power the ecosystems of imaging, genomics, life sciences, drug discovery and health care analytics. Kimberly, great to have you back again. Let me turn it over to you.

Thank you, Harlan. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. This is the first time I've been between you and cocktails, but I'm going to make sure it's as entertaining as humanly possible. Just a few words that this is an absolute once-in-a-generation platform shift for the health care industry. And I am so honored to be invited back for the seventh year, we're in our 17th year of working on health care at NVIDIA. And I thank the conference very much for this opportunity, and all of the partners that we work with day in and day out, which I hope I'm going to be able to share what the future is going to look like.

Before we get into it, please have a moment and look at our forward-looking statements. And action. Okay. 2025 was an absolute breakout year for agentic AI. Many things came together in just the last 12 months, you've heard the words reasoning, AI models that can reason. You've heard the words tool use, software that can actually use tools on behalf of the human user. You've heard the word retrieval being able to attach language models with trusted information and trusted knowledge. Agentic AI is here alive and being deployed faster in health care than any other industry.

The ChatGPT moment, Jensen just described to us last week, has arrived in physical AI, the amount of progress we are now able to make in robotics because we've closed the loop in a very important domain called simulation, where robots and embodied AI will learn in a computer first before they're ever deployed to the real world is here, and it's having profound implications across the entire health care and life sciences industry. And then thirdly, and we've been working on this for some time, and many companies are here sharing with you that AI is starting to understand and learn the laws of nature, biology in particular.

You might call us at the beginning of the transformer moment of biology. Let's start, though, with thinking about what's happening in AI. Let's take a minute to understand how AI is really making such rapid progress. One of the most important things we need in the world is open models and open software. Just like you could think about Linux back in the day as an operating system that created brand-new markets. We're exactly here at this time. And what's amazing to think about is open models are now reaching the frontier, which is giving an opportunity to every startup company and actually every enterprise to participate as fully as very well-stocked AI labs around the world. Open models and reasoning models that really came into light at the beginning of 2025 are absolutely the backbone of innovation. These are models that can think and they're much more relatable to humans, and they can create the essence of transparency and explainability.

They can break down very complex tasks that otherwise were just untouchable or had to be hand coded in the past software. So 80% of startups today are built on open models and it's in a very, very important strategy to NVIDIA. Over the past several years, we have been amassing a huge body of work in the open source. In 2025, actually NVIDIA became the world's largest contributor of open-source AI on Hugging Face. We have over 650 language models that have been contributed, 250 data sets. And those are not only in language. They're also in biology, in chemistry, robotics and vision.

And so key to developing an ecosystem is to not only provide open models. When we say open models, we actually made 3 things. One is the model itself. Two are the open data sets. For any company or any industry that is regulated, you need to understand how these models came to fruition. You might even need them for auditing purpose down the road. So open models, open data set. And the third is open tools. Just like all intelligence, learning is never finished. Every single user interaction you have with your software, with your application is training data to enhance the system going forward.

So you need to create a whole tool chain for the end-to-end AI life cycle which is essentially a never-ending life cycle. So when we say open models, yes, the capability of open models are extremely important, but it comes with open dataset and the open tools. And so we've been pioneering in some very important places. We just announced the third generation of our Nemotron language models that are absolutely at the frontier for Agentic AI, we've recently announced our physics AI models, Earth-2, things that we can do in climate and weather simulation.

Our own Clara models in health care for biomedical AI that spans everything from target discovery to molecular design and medical AI reasoning. And then we're at the dawn of this ChatGPT moment for physical AI. And a lot of that physical AI has come from the foundation models we have pioneered at NVIDIA, last year's CES was actually the breakout moment for Cosmos, which is the best innovation of the show for understanding the world, world foundation model, understands the laws of physics, understand spatial awareness, can create digital worlds of all kinds with millions, billions of permutations in which robots and physical things can learn in these environments.

Group is for robotics, so that you can train robots to operate in these physical worlds, all of the different training policies, all the different tasks that needs to take us from very specialized robots to more generalized and they can complete really amazing tasks. And just last week, Alpamayo, which is for self-driving cars. The first time we've ever opened sourced. This is a model that is essentially thinking autonomous vehicle model. It has large language models at the root of it, and it's an end-to-end driving system. Incredible work that is going to lay the foundation for much of the physical AI to come.

What I also love about 2025 and us moving forward is agentic AI has become hireable. I would hire this man. I think all of you would as well. And what do I mean by that? All of those breakthroughs that I just described, the ability to reason, the ability to call the tools necessary, the ability to interact with antiquated systems, whether they're scheduling systems or otherwise, all of that has largely now become solved in the age of Agentic-AI. And so health care systems all over the globe are recognizing that they can start hiring these agentic systems and platforms essentially as digital coworkers to close this extreme gap we have in terms of health care services and the number of health care professionals we have. As you know, the World Health Organization predicts we're going to be tens of millions of health care providers short by 2030.

We can offload our amazing health care professionals who dedicate their lives to their profession and offload a lot of the clerical work that isn't necessary clinical work. I love this report from Menlo Ventures that describes that I would say, for the first time in my history and my being in this industry that health care is leading the pace at a technology, enterprise deployment and adoption. It's actually at 3x the pace of the U.S. economy. And that is because it's solving such acute challenges. And so it absolutely is here a USD 4.9 trillion market. And we are deploying AI at this incredible scale. These are paid and enterprise-grade software systems that are now being hired in the psychology of CIOs and health systems all around the globe are recognizing this as an opportunity.

It is just not possible to go out and find another 500 doctors that you can hire into your system. But by offloading your amazing doctors with systems that I'm going to share with you in just a moment, we have an incredible opportunity to do so. I've talked about this -- we've talked about this for quite some time that the way software is being built has fundamentally changed. This is, in essence, what all agentic systems and what all Software as a Service platforms will look like when they are agentic. They are prompted with some input and this amazing reasoning system kind of understands the user intent.

You will always use frontier models, and you will also augment these frontier models with specialized models because the work that gets done in industry is exquisite work, it's specialized work. There's subject matter expertise involved. And so you have to call upon a lot of different tools in order to connect these agents and connect these otherwise generalists to become specialists and deliver the value that's necessary in the industry. Let me share a couple of amazing examples. I think many of us here have heard of Abridge and actually, they're on the conference scheduled this year. Abridge is a clinical conversation AI platform.

Their platform again, looks like those systems by connecting these systems in such exquisite ways, understanding workflows in a building block sense to transform workflows. They're giving 30% or more of doctors' time back at the end of the day, helping them generic reports and prior authorizations, deployed in over 200 health systems already, and that number is growing dramatically faster even as we seek in the last 6 months. Corti is a health care agent platform that is helping Europe and the NHS deploy agents of all kinds.

And similarly, we have Speechmatics and Sully, who are creating agents to triage, creating agents to check you in, agents that can be deployed all over the hospital for, again, not necessary clinical work but amazing workflow that creates a win-win situation. It's a win situation for the health care systems because more patients can come through. And it's a win for the patient because the experience is far improved. Now these agents are going into another high stakes, very high-cost area of the industry, and that is in clinical development. This is a part of the drug discovery and medical device process that is absolutely necessary. But it's a very challenging part of the system.

It's very labor-intensive. It's very manual. It's frankly error prone. We work with amazing companies like ConcertAI, which is helping to stratify these clinical trials and even simulate their outcomes so that you can do much, much better planning, the amount of money, time and resources that can be saved and the precision to get to where these clinical trials need to go faster. CytoReason is essentially building the capability to do drug development by building disease models, using knowledge graphs and otherwise to really understand and help build better modeling with all of that real-world data.

And we've been working with IQVIA now for well over a year, and they have agentic systems being deployed from the commercial deployment of commercial teams who can give you an essence of in what region, what physicians you should call on with very relevant data so that they can have much more productive commercial teams as well as into all of the clinical trial, finding the right start-up studies and building those at a much, much faster pace than before.

So this agentic digital health ecosystem is being built on NVIDIA, our open models, our tooling and our ability to help them connect and build out these agent systems to do incredibly wonderful things. Now agents are at also a very exciting inflection point where they are accelerating science. This is the loop of science that is emerging, not only in life sciences, but particularly in life sciences, it's having a very, very accelerated effect on how we're thinking about doing science. Science -- AI scientists are agentic systems, who you could imagine, could go off and read the literature, you can go back and forth and reason with them, they can help you design the experiment. They can call upon tools that could be foundation models for protein structure prediction or do virtual screening in the digital lab or they could actually go off and kick off and experiment in a physical lab.

And you can also think about the computational dry lab as this connective glue to close this loop as we described. As you have the agentic system, you have the physical space, but you need to constantly take every experiment and build that into digital intelligence of the R&D work that's being done all over the world. There is a new emerging ecosystem of a category of AI science companies who are building on, again, NVIDIA's Nemotron, a huge additional breakthrough of last year that's come into vogue in order to create these agents that go beyond generalist understanding and into science and technology, and it's called reinforcement learning, using experimental data to reinforce these models and tune them into a very particular science task.

Edison is the new commercial company that came out of FutureHouse. This is a stunning AI scientist. This scientist can go off and read 1,500 papers, write 40,000 lines of code and synthesize a research report in about 16 hours, work 16 hours straight and essentially do the amount of work that would otherwise be 4 to 6 months by a researcher, pretty mind boggling. LiLA is building a super intelligence, a completely integrated autonomous lab and agentic system. So literally, all experiments come back and feed the super -- to feed the super intelligence and creating a complete closed loop system. And Owkin is combining biological language models with deep patient data to really help biopharma teams have a higher confidence in their decisions.

So the science agents are really here and they're making a profound impact on that -- there's really a new paradigm in science that is emerging. And as we know, life sciences is one of the largest science domains and pharma R&D is the largest of that. And so a $300 billion industry of R&D is going to be reinvented with this paradigm. I want to share with you how agents are entering the lab. They're not only going to be co scientists along with you that you're kind of talking with, working with, hypothesizing, they're creating reports for you, but they're actually going to do work for you on behalf of the scientists or with the scientists in the lab. Let's take a look.

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We're super excited to announce today that we're working with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in lab instrumentation and services to build what we're calling the fundamental AI infrastructure for the lab. You can see there that little gold box is essentially a bench top AI supercomputer called DGX Spark. This DGX Spark can run any workload of AI and accelerated computing. You can hold it in the palm of your hand. And so we pioneered this first agentic system where you essentially can make the instrument intelligence right there with that amazing gold box and some agents that we built together. And you can close the loop from the scientists there. Sometimes, you can close the loop right with the instrument. The instrument with an automatic quality control agent can understand, oh, I need to go clean something in the instrument and it can autonomously self-relieve it and come out with much better experimental data.

And so it is very clear that this is going to drive -- this is going to scale the throughput of labs. It's going to increase the quality of experiments and no longer are humans going to be kind of the thing that's bottlenecking the amount of data that we can come in and do science. So this is just an amazing partnership and we're delighted to be partnering with Thermo Fisher.

Now getting into physical AI, labs are one of the most chaotic and bespoke physical environments that are out there. And so we really want to think about scaling labs with robotic intelligence and into those real worlds of physical labs. And so you -- there's a journey here that we want to have not only specialized robots that really understand a given instrument, we want them to also be generalized and actually, we want the best of both worlds. And so to get to that best of both worlds, NVIDIA has created the physical AI 3 computer platform. I was describing this earlier, where you use simulation and our Cosmos World Foundation Model to create digital worlds to train these robots in, you can vary the lighting.

You can move beakers. You can practice all sorts of different tasks and train your robot in simulation first. You can use Isaac in the training platform to train all sorts of different types of robots or for tons of different tests. Sometimes they need to be contamination tasks, sometimes they have to have different perception because they're looking for barcodes or they're looking for a glass like this size or their pipetting. And then we have also the edge computer for you to go off and deploy this. So AI and lab automation is reaching far into the physical world.

And so again, a new class of companies is emerging into not only lab automation, but robotic lab automation. We're working with some fantastic companies in this space. Multiply Labs is using our Isaac platform to train their robots. They're doing amazing work in cell and gene therapy, biomanufacturing labs where they're using the Isaac system to train literally thousands of different tasks because as you're going through some of these more complex therapies, it's many, many steps involved, and these are very precise steps, the precision and you don't actually want humans involved because of the contamination aspects of it.

And so they've made some tremendous breakthroughs where, take a cell therapy that costs $100,000 to manufacture, and they're reducing that down to $30,000, over 70% with their robotic systems. And they're essentially putting 100x the throughput in a given square space, square footage lab environment. These are the breakthroughs that are going to scale medicines to where we need to go. Similarly, HighRes build complete lab automation at a very large scale, exquisite robots that are learning, again, in our environment using Isaac and Cosmos to train them and learn all of these different task to take automation to yet another level.

And then Opentrons very well known for their liquid handling, deployed in 10,000 labs around the world, again, using our platform to build the simulation environments and increase the velocity at which these robotic systems are able to tackle more and more complex tasks in the lab.

All right. We are in a final chapter here of AI starting to learn the laws of nature. I took a few headlines. The NeurIPS Conference is the flagship AI conference of the year. And there was over 30 workshops, developers of all kind. There were 50 or so biology and life science company parties at this event. And it was written up as biologies transformer moment. AI revolution and drug making is well underway now. And we're really starting to see AI-enabled medicines reach the later stage of clinical development, which is extremely exciting and a lot of those companies are here.

We are working really hard to help push the frontiers in this area of biology transformation models. We don't aspire to necessarily be a biology foundation model company. But all of the methodology, all of the challenges in which it takes to scale these models at a domain-specific level, language is short words, assembled into a sequence of a sentence that looks very different than a 3-billion-character long DNA. And so we need to think about context length when we're talking about biology. We need to have different model architectures.

These models have to get grounded in physics. So there's a lot of interesting challenges. And so we've been adding to our Clara open models to help the entire research industry really accelerate the ability to train larger models as we go here and multimodal models. And we're really proud of some of the work we're doing in La-Proteina, which allows you to add atomic scale, essentially design proteins, our very new one that we're announcing is RNAPro for RNA design, the first that we've had. And Merck was just up here. We did some exciting work with them on that KERMT model, which is all around predicting toxicity. And so we're really trying to work across the drug discovery process with these open models.

We have a reasoning model for molecular synthesis in our version 2. Really excited about these models. And so we also announced today a pretty massive extension to the NVIDIA BioNeMo platform. So not only are we investing heavily in these open models. But additionally, and as I said, it's not just about the model, it's about the data sets. And we have a road map to continue to invest in data. This industry, like other industries where it's self-driving cars will benefit from synthetically generated data. And so we've generated some synthetic proteins. We also care a lot about doing data processing, things like cheminformatics workflows like RDKit, we now have a GPU accelerated nvMolKit that is 100x faster in chemistry processing. And so this platform expansion is really, really foundational.

And as I said, it's part of that glue. It's that digital dry lab that is going to take all of the intelligence from experiments and continuously enhance these models going forward, which can then be called by the agentic systems as their tools. So what's exciting is we're seeing enterprise adoption of BioNeMo in some pretty exciting platforms. Basecamp Research is an AI-native company who announced their EDEN platform today here at this conference. This is a GPT 4 size biology model that was trained on 10 trillion biology tokens.

And it's able to now do things what they're calling gene insertion and their lab result -- their validation results of what it's able to do in antimicrobials and in cancer is really pretty groundbreaking, amazing EDEN platform. We're working with Natera, who is for cell-free DNA, they're training their own models and then also building into their platform, agentic systems to advise in clinical development and advise in the clinical decision support. And then TetraScience is a scientific data platform, again, to try to connect all of these.

As we know, science is done oftentimes in very narrow. But when you can try to now start to learn across many different data sets, to ask all of these scientific questions, we're working with them. They're deploying BioNeMo models inside. They're deploying Nemotron, and it's an amazing platform for scientist and so this is the vision. This is the new paradigm in science. And as I said, there's an amazing group of new markets, new companies that are being built all around this vision, of AI scientists that can call tools that are constantly getting smarter by the experiments.

And these experiments have automation that will come from the agents setting it up, but you're still going to need robotics and otherwise to help you execute that in the physical world. To bring this whole vision together, we are so excited to announce an extension to our partnership with Lilly. Today, we announced a first of its kind co-innovation AI lab with Lilly. This is the first time we are going to be joining together world-leading scientists with world-leading AI researchers in South San Francisco here in the Bay Area, co-locating with the amazing science and lab understanding that comes with doing drug discovery, we'll be investing $1 billion over the next 5 years to really push the frontier in this new paradigm of science and new paradigm in acceleration of drug discovery.

This is building upon their deep belief that they see this transition of 90% wet lab to 10% compute, imagining the paradigm with that's deeply, deeply flipped in the next coming years, and it's going to accelerate the breakthroughs. We're going to work on clinical development, and we're going to work on manufacturing and lab automation, just like we described that they're doing. Lilly is world-class in manufacturing and accelerating the ability to deploy physical AI throughout labs and manufacturing is also going to continue to be transformative and help them meet the amazing demand that they've created for medicines in the world.

So this has been a phenomenal kickoff to the year. I'm going to leave you with one last video, and then I'm going to join Harlan over there for some Q&A.

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Great presentation. Thank you, Kimberly. I'm going to kick off the Q&A.

We've seen the deployment of massive what Jensen calls AI factories by the leaders in your segment of the market like Amgen, Genentech and recently, Lilly with their Blackwell Ultra base DGX SuperPOD, right? And this potentially signals the shift from pilot programs to industrial scale development and deployment, can you walk us through the economic conversations you're having with pharma CFOs today? Are we at the point where they view GPU compute investments, not just as an R&D expense, but as essential capital infrastructure that integrates AI agents, AI tools that directly determines their pipeline throughput and probability of success?

Yes. I do think, as I was just describing, this is a new paradigm in science completely, and the amazing scientists that -- and if you think of this as a scientist or an employee, you really want them to be as productive as humanly possible. And so if there's a new scientific methods sort of emerging with the ability to take all of -- think of Lilly in many pharmaceutical companies, hundreds of years of science is written down in electronic lab notebooks and it's kind of shoved all over the different parts of the company. You actually have the ability now to build all that back into the Cardinal knowledge of the company, every scientist that works there, it's a very transient industry, frankly.

But why lose all of that deep understanding of a scientist when they leave the company, you can actually inject that back into the system. So from that respect, it's taking all of that amazing high-value data and doing something with it to empower the whole organization and then this transformer moment that we're in is becoming very clear.

I mean we're in the fifth year now post AlphaFold and its true initial impact, and it was the inspiration that has driven a lot of work in the area of models. And now there's thousands and thousands of biology and molecular models being built every single day. And with the sort of democratization, if you will, of what we're doing with open models and the data sets and the tools, we're giving the capabilities for science teams who are not open AI like, they are scientists for the job they're hired for, but they can now become AI scientists and AI researchers just the same because we're making it much more accessible for them to develop these things.

And so I think that the visual of you have agent scientists working along with and then you have a dry lab wet lab. I mean you said it is going to be exactly like the wet lab and you're going to have the dry lab be as intelligent and reasoning with you and calling upon all of the data that you've ever built and all the new data that you're building. And so I absolutely think that it's going to be thought of exactly like your wet lab, and I see this 90-10 flip starting to go the direction. And it's not going to be less lab expense we're just going to do much more science. That's what this is all about. This is not a paradigm in which, if you flip it to computation, you don't need more of that. Absolutely not. Just think about radiologists and the reports are coming out.

Everybody thought because you can read -- you can do the task of reading an image and finding something in it, which is one of the tasks that a radiology does, that we weren't going to need radiologists soon. That was what one of our godfathers said, well, in fact, reports are just out. We've increased the number of radiologists that are being hired because there's more work to do. And so we should just think of this all as we're going to do fundamentally much more science, which essentially will also lead to many, many more breakthroughs.

Last week, we held the consumer electronics show, right, Jensen had a big NVIDIA live event where he announced his new -- the team's new GPU computing platform called Vera Rubin, right? And one of the key highlights of that was Vera Rubin is going to continue to drive cost per token or cost per inference lower by up to 10x, right? And every generation of GPUs that the team has brought to market cost of inferencing, cost per token is going down somewhere between 3x to 10x. This is per year, right? So with that in mind, in hospitals, you've highlighted the labor shortage crisis and introduce agentic AI as a solution for everything from patient triage to administrative coating.

For a hospital CEO operating on razor thin margins, what is the immediate ROI of deploying NVIDIA-powered agents compared to the traditional staffing? In other words, is the cost of inferencing finally now low enough to make this viable for mass market sort of health care adoption?

Yes. And you're right. In the last 4 years, we've had Hopper to Blackwell, to Rubin. And in those 4 years, we've reduced inference by well over 100x. So if you're paying $1 to run an agent, you're now paying $0.01. And you need this, you need this for rapid adoption. And so there -- these companies that I just described, a bridge has hundreds now of millions of users, right? OpenEvidence has hundreds of millions of users, and they're using it constantly. And so we have to continue to drive the cost down.

Now the return on investment is very clear. If a doctor has 30% of their time back, that's either 30% of life that they can return to having with their family and keeping them employed and safe at work or you can also see 30% more patients. I mean it comes with all sorts of benefits. It's a win for the patient. It's a win for the health system. And so you can measure a lot of those companies that we talk to, they're literally measuring how many clinical minutes they're giving back to the organization. And I think it was the Sully and Speechmatics, there's something like 57 years they've already measured since the platform has been in deployment that they've given back to the health system.

So that's clearly measurable in ROI because the more you can give back of free minutes is essentially the more patient throughput you can have.

When we think about accelerated compute and AI, we typically think about use cases, customers as being the large cloud, hyperscalers, your corporate and enterprise partners, but Jensen always reminds us, right, that there's a sovereign AI opportunity. It's a $20 billion per year market opportunity. We've seen Japan's Tokyo One. We've seen Denmark's Gefion supercomputers launched with a very heavy focus on health care and genomics driven by the need for data sovereignty, national competitiveness. Do you view sovereign health care cloud as a stand-alone growth factor for the team separate from enterprise and do you expect every major economy to build a similar type of infrastructure build-out?

Yes. So to answer your last question first, yes, I expect every country to be able to take advantage of this incredible again, once-in-a-generation opportunity. Some countries will go from 0 health care services to complete AI-native health care services, and that's a fantastic opportunity. And now that we've made it so accessible to do so, we've done several things. NVIDIA's platform is inside of every public cloud, NVIDIA has also pioneered essentially a generation of what they're calling neoclouds.

So clouds that are residing within the walls of certain countries, giving every country the opportunity, I mean if you think about what AI infrastructure is, it's just as important as roads, electricity, water, it is a necessary infrastructure for any country to prosper in the future. And so they can get it in the public cloud, if that's good for them, they can start building their own, a lot of telecom companies are transitioning themselves into cloud companies that can be hosted.

You can build it inside your own enterprises, if you like. And so to answer your first question, last, no, it's not a separate. It is all part of our enterprise business. We've just now created the conditions that everybody can, should and will build their own infrastructure to serve their own country to prosper.

Perfect. Well, we are just about out of time. Kimberly, thank you for your participation. Looking for another strong growth year for the team.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

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Thank you. Good morning. Happy new year's, everyone, and welcome to JPMorgan's virtual fireside chat series at the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show. My name is Harlan Sur. I'm the semiconductor and semiconductor capital equipment analyst at the firm.

Very pleased to have Colette Kress, Chief Financial Officer of NVIDIA here with us this morning. It's been a tradition past 12 years that have Colette and the NVIDIA team kick off the investor event here at CES. Colette's to start us off with an overview of Jensen's NVIDIA live event yesterday, and then we'll go ahead and kick off the Q&A. Colette, thanks for joining us today. Happy New Year, and let me go ahead and turn it over to you.

Okay. Let me first start. As a reminder, folks, to this discussion may contain forward-looking statements and investors are advised to read our reports filed with the SEC for information related to risks and uncertainties facing our business. And then I'll kind of get back to CES and our announcements essence that we were here yesterday doing.

It's an important time for us to remind everyone about the transitions that are taking place in the market today. Those are 3 different transitions and all very important ones. The first 1 is one that we have talked about for several years regarding the need to move to accelerated computing. We're beyond the ability in our current development with using CPUs to advance that work in just the CPU. So folks are moving to accelerated computing throughout the world.

Secondly, the development of generative AI is also a key transition. Those are things that are changing a lot of our work today, whether it be search or any of the social media or otherwise, generate AI is also taking part.

But in the future, we also see the third and important transitions we move to agentic. Agentic AI is really where it is getting work done, work that can augment the work of many employees, many of our folks at home. All locations are really important, we think, going forward. Those transitions are penetration to that, and they're all occurring in creating an exponential growth in terms of our computer.

So that's one of the opening statements that we just kind of want to remind in terms of what we see in AI going forward, but also seeing that we're doing in terms of accelerating today. This event highlights a lot of different focus on not only just AI, and AI for business, but also the work that we are doing in terms of with robotics and really thinking about physical AR going forward.

But an important part of the discussion was talking about our next and upcoming version Vera Rubin. Vera Rubin, as we discussed, has definitely taped out and is ready to go, but this is an opportunity to help folks understand that we are well in good shape in terms of bringing this to market in the second half of the year as we are in full production.

The important part of Vera Rubin, as we discussed that it is different chips. And I think it's important to talk about that -- what that means in terms of different chips, 6 different ships that have been extreme pre-designed to create a data center infrastructure at scale. This isn't about coming gear and talking about one different piece or discussing that says we are designing and orders building out the rack. It's more than that in terms of the design that every piece continues to be fought through its work between each and every single one of those different types of chips.

So 6 chips that we're talking about. First, of course, that Vera Rubin, our GPU that is Vera, our CPU it's our next version of greatest piece of what we can do in scaling up in terms of our NVLink. It also takes us to Spectrum-X in terms of what we have in terms of the super mix, but also what we have with Bluefield and then also our switch for CPO. Six different chips have all been harmonized in terms of what we are bringing to market.

We're excited in terms of all the different workloads that would be able to support but some of the key things that we have seen already is to understand that this is a full system that will essentially be able to take the time to drain down to 1/4 of what we had in terms of Blackwell. Additionally, you have the capability of 10x higher throughput and then thirdly, and an important part in terms of the inferencing phase that we say, it's actually 1/10 lower open cost throughout.

So these parts and bringing that together, we are getting ready for that to continue to scale in the second half of this year. And then we'll be in full ramp as we move into the next calendar year as well. So those are some of the highlights, and we can talk about more of it in the discussions.

Yes. No, that was a great overview, Colette. And Jensen spent quite a bit of time yesterday focused on physical AI. And the team has framed AI physically as a massive opportunity by powered by platforms and bottles like Cosmos, Omniverse, Isaac, right? And vertical-specific frameworks like Group and Alpamayo, right?

Customers are already here at CES. They're already bringing robots in many different verticals to market using Cosmos and Group. The Mercedes announcement yesterday is leveraging the Alpamayo-based reasoning model, right? Is physical AI -- is this already a financially material contributor to your data center revenues? And how should we think about the growth curve over the next few years for physical AI?

Physical AI is yet another great opportunity once we advance the agentic AI. And you're correct, they all are different types of models that are going to be needed for the physical AI. The important part of what we brought to market and what we discussed about is really the need for the open source model. And right now, if you think about the top proprietary models, the next in line is the formation of all of the open models and how important these are.

Now these open models are important definitely for the enterprise and the work that they're doing, but being able to manage for physical AI, the abundance of modeling there coming up in store and what it was being designed, whether that be for research and whether that be entry to developing the content for them, those models are now in service and here today. So here on the CES floor, even here in terms of our offering, we have full. We're about visibility but also what you have in terms of automotive.

Your question stems in terms of are we seeing that today? And yes, Mercedes is coming to market in terms of their very hard work that we have done over the last 8 years to move to a very high-end, self-driving capability in the car, really focused in terms of the safety and the lock. The Mercedes have now been able to take the lead as one of the safest cars that will be in the market.

So yes, we are earning definitely revenue from our work in terms of Mercedes as well as many others that are using our platform, whether that be back in the data center, and that's an important piece to keep in mind the amount of data that is selective and put together in terms of the data here as well as what is also inside of the course as well.

As we move forward, taking that to an area such as physical AR for robotics is also going to be extremely important. The learning, the simulation of ours of what we've seen in terms of automotive carries very nicely for the purpose in terms of what we will be able to do with robotics as well. So yes, achieve part of that, we see much work in terms of our Jetson platform, our Omniverse platform and then also now in terms of our open model helping these important parts of physical AI.

That's great. And you touched upon a very relevant topic in the opening remarks, which is this is a team is in production with your next generation Vera Rubin, an accelerated compute platform, on track to launch in the second half of this year in line with your aggressive product cadence, 6 chips, as you mentioned, in the Vera Rubin portfolio, initial performance relative to Blackwell is very compelling, right? 5x better performance, 3x better training performance.

And as you mentioned, and most important to your customers the 10x lower potential cost per token. As you look at the strong demand curve ahead of you and we've all heard about -- we all track value chain, the supply chain. But if you look at the strong demand curve ahead of you, what are the product areas or categories of the supply chain that you could see constraining your shipments as you start to unlock Vera Rubin in second half of the year. Could it be 3-nanometer wafer supply? Would it be coLOS? The memory, any bottlenecks that you foresee as you think about strong demand ramp in the second half of the year?

Yes. I think it's right to indicate, yes, there's tremendous amount of demand that is out there for both the AI and telecomputing. And we have been focusing on the significant amount of demand. And then the need of what type of supply we'd have to purchase.

Keep in mind, the work that we deal in terms of building any one of these data center infrastructure systems, from the very beginning to the very end. You could be anywhere from 3 quarters to a year to be completed. That means a lot of our supply purchasing is not taking place in terms of what we need for tomorrow, today. It has been in the works, in the works for a couple of years because what it takes is focusing not only on just our supply, but the capacity needs that they have wanted and that is an important part of our processes, thinking through every stable one of our generation and our future generations and working with our suppliers.

We feel very solid about that in terms of what we see in this new calendar year and what we have in terms of supply. As we move forward, it's something to think about as more and more growth goes, how much more can our suppliers did. But we feel good in terms of what we have ordered, what we've have been confirmed for and in terms of our supply that we will take for this year.

That's perfect. Why don't we take a step back for a second as we enter the new year, and does it build the concern focus as it relates to NVIDIA in terms of how the market thinks about the engineered team and the trajectory of growth is as we step into the year, the market is always focused on. And by the time that we second to the year, we already have a pretty good view of customers' CapEx in being change, right?

So the market -- as the market always is very forward-looking, right? And I think the market is starting to think about the infrastructure growth trajectory looking into calendar year '27, right? And if I go back to October of last year when Jensen talked about $500 billion of visibility backlog to found in '26, right? That's both on Blackwell and Rubin GPU fabs, right? And we know that lead times may lack scale based solutions are 9 to 12 months.

And it takes a significant amount, as you mentioned, supply chain management and coordination, capacity buildouts, et cetera, right? But the best proxy, I think, for continued CapEx and infrastructure spending, buyer, customers, if you look at your customers' forecast and orders beyond '26, right, which I assume NVIDIA team is already focused on. I'm not asking you to quantify, but given what you see in your orders and customer forecast, are you already seeing a continued spending growth profile by your customers into calendar?

Yes. So let's go back in terms of our GTC D.C.. That was an opportunity to help you understand that the combination of Blackwell and Vera Rubin together is about a half a trillion through that period time of through '26. But the important part, correct, is thinking of now let's start talking about 2027. And you think that would take to stand up the compute and up a full stage data center.

That is years to do so from the land power shell to finishing up the buildout to eventually in terms of putting in and compute and getting that ready. So where we see our customers and they can see an event like today, they know that Vera Rubin is here. There's already been discussions in terms of how can we think about the amount of demand and where they will put that in their land power cell that they have up and coming in terms of the year '27. So that's the right way to think about it.

We're still working on in '26. There is still a shortage of demand, and they are still looking to are ther quick ads that we could also add in '26 to help fuel what we need in terms of our demand. So both of these things are happening at the same time, but this is being very hopeful to them. They have good understanding from an engineering, what's capable and now they can start thinking through the volume of what they will need for their data center builds. So yes, that is exactly where we're focusing on is on as well.

On the market concerns around an AI bubble, Jensen, and as you mentioned in your prepared remarks, right, you've articulated 3 compute platform ships that are all happening at once which should mitigate a spending level, right? And often feel like the market sort of message is.

And first is the transition from CPU compute to GPU accelerated compute, right? I mean we're seeing this in so many traditional CPU-based compute workloads and dominated segments of the market where, over time, they're moving from CPU compute to GPU accelerated compute rate. Jensen always talked about this, but EDA, chip design software is a perfect example where most of the chip design software workloads were run on high-performance server CPUs not that long ago.

But today, they are all -- many of them are running up GPU accelerated compute architectures. You see that in the simulation market. You see that in the data base markets and so on, right? So that's one of the first sort of transition, right, the CPU to GPU accelerated compute in the existing traditional compute base. The second driver is, as you mentioned, the strong adoption of Gen AI. And the third transition, again, as you mentioned, is agentic AI. And of course, the onset of new foundation models that will power things like physical AI, right?

So we stand along all 3 of those compute platform shows like where are we in terms of the adoption curve contribution to your current data center revenue profile? What specifically looking into 2030, right, let's take a longer-term view on this, but looking into 2030, how are all of these 3 shifts, how are they going to profile into that sort of $3 trillion to $4 trillion of data center spending that the NVIDIA team is forecasting during that period of time?

Great set of questions. First, looking at the accelerated computing. Accelerated computing, it's already here, and many of us have seen it and working with it almost every single day. There's a massive transformation of how search is completed, recommender engines, and essentially almost all in terms of the consumer Internet and how we market through our 2 businesses and our consumers. That's an important piece.

But keep in mind, it is going to be in multiple decades solution to try and get throughout all. There's a lot amount of moving to a software 2.0 and transitioning from CPU to software to a different form of accelerated computing to the software. So we're in the early parts of it. It's moving quite fast. Folks do see the great benefits for the accelerated computing and being able to manage with a significant amount of data there are, you're going to see some time moving forward.

However, moving also in terms of our work that we see with generative and agentic AI. The important part of that also created in an exponential growth in the need for the amount of compute that's necessary. Because one of the very big part of moving to agentic was the long thinking, was what can I do to get a response on a very difficult challenging question and that additional long thinking takes a lot more inferencing demand and takes a lot more token generation as well.

So we are also now seeing a surge in that demand as we move forward. And our vision can see looking at AI as we go forward, has nothing more in the early stages as we move towards these various statistics, data solutions that will augment a lot of the work that we do in our offices as well as we do in terms of personal life. So we know these big markets are driving a lot of this different demand. And in no side do we see any type of shortage or any type of stopping from that.

There's a lot more work to get completed. And the world as a whole still has to get that completed, not just here in terms of some parts and what we see here in the United States. We have a lot of different sovereign AI going on and so that we have many, many different industries.

You have to go industry by industry. You can look at social media, but you have to look at health care, you have to look at automotive, you have to look at industrial, manufacturing. All of these different have unique ways for a perfect work that has to go transition and can be introduced in terms of AI as well. So a lot still to go. And why we indicated that by the end of the decade, we are definitely going to be up there in the multiple, multiple trillions, in the 3% to 4% of the amount that we'll be able to spend in terms of building out the accelerated computing and the AI types.

Maybe more near term kind of focusing on calendar '26. Going back again to Jensen's comments at GTC back in October when you talked about just $0.5 trillion of revenue is in those backlogs of cumulative Blackwells and move in shipments to '26. Obviously, as you move forward in time, you continue to get updated forecast and orders.

Ex China, let's talk about China a little bit later, but ex China, has that $0.5 trillion worth of visibility and backlog number through '26 continue to improve. And at what point are you supply constrained and need to push any more orders into.

So the demand as we see continues to increase as folks are to looking to enable more compute for a lot of areas, the long, tough time and thinking. And so we see this every single day and since our time that we said $0.5 trillion, of course, we've seen new announcements of new deals, new different both focused in terms of the CSPs, the law makers as well as many of our new cloud looking to add more on to that.

So yes, more has occurred, and we are now starting to see folks work in terms of providing the orders. We have orders for Vera Rubin and focusing more and more in terms of thinking out a full year of volume, what you may need in terms of Vera Rubin. So we're in a great position in getting better understanding. We've worked over the many, many years that has the more insight that we provide them in terms of our infrastructure is there, the easier it is in terms of the planning and process of that.

So their demand needs are quite strong, and we are definitely in that process. So yes, that 500 -- that $500 million has definitely gotten larger. And now we'll probably look in terms of next year as well to start building up in terms of all the different demands that we have there. But we cannot say anything more than demand is quite strong.

That's great. No, that's exactly what we're looking for, and that's exactly what we thought. Maybe switching gears because Jensen and the team did a great job, and you did a great job of laying out the performance specs, as I mentioned to you before, right, 5x inferencing performance on Vera Rubin versus Blackwell.

That's on the inferencing side, 3x better training? And then what's most important is the economics to your customers and you guys are driving 10x lower cost per token on Vera Rubin versus Blackwell, but I think the market has gotten a better appreciation for -- you talked about codevelopment and as you bring more systems and rack scale solutions to the market.

It is a solution that is optimize not only around compute, it's optimized around compute. It's optimized around networking. It's optimized around storage and networking right. And so let's talk about networking, right? And lots of focus on networking lately, especially as NVIDIA and the initially transitioned to rack-scale solutions. There's a significant step-up in networking dollar content, given the scale of connectivity with your NVLink networking and switching portfolio, networking attached to your compute revenues was around 19% in your fiscal Q3 of last year. And we define networking attaches networking revenues divided by competed revenues, right? That was about 19% in Q3, at up to 21% in the July quarter.

So on average, about 20% networking attached to your rack scale compute systems, here then the average attach over the prior 9 quarters, which was around 7%, I think, due to the scale-up adoption, right as we move to rack-scale. Looks like you continue to also get traction on spectrum ex your Ethernet product line, is 20% of baseline on networking attached? And as you drive more spectrum and your recently announced Spectrum-6 platform and you've got some GS for scale across, maybe the mix trends move more towards below the mid-20% range in mid- to longer term, right? I'm not sure, but I wanted to get your views on that.

Yes. It's a great way to start here talking about our network. We can definitely discuss where we've been historically and where we see going forward on the networking. One of the ways that we have been looking at the networking is how much in terms of when they are buying the full systems, which always all of them are, how many of them are attracting in terms of networking. And that's a different than looking at it from a dollar perspective, but just the attach rate. It is -- that is a very, very clean metric to understand. That number is nearing 90%. 90% are attaching strong form of all the networking included in there.

Let's remind folks that as our networking business is #1 in the world. From moving to a very, very small scale. But now with the full development of all different types of switching capabilities, best agreed in terms of NVLink. Nobody has even figured out how to even do a lot of what we've done is really establishing both adoption of not only our InfiniBand, which has been a important part for super computing for decades and decades, it is world-class, but the quickness of providing those key features in Ethernet and the adoption of our Ethernet for their businesses as well has been a huge success kind of stepping back and looking at this AI important way.

It's not enough to just have a GPU check, it's not enough to how to base. You're missing such an important part of what the networking does to capture the capabilities of scaling the multiple and multiple ones together, but also dealing with the complexity of traffic and the complexity of responses that you need at some point, we needed training and some point we may be able to manage that all with all of our different inferencing platforms with our networking has been a huge success.

So even as we go forward and move to Vera Rubin, already working at some of the most important capabilities and how important that networking has been there. They are also part and focusing in terms of our work in terms of the switch for CPU. That's been an important part of those to know the amount of savings and capabilities that you can establish through a CPO environment, and we're going to be excited to go to market for them as well.

But really looking at what we see, it's very interesting. Even if they have a part of our compute, very common in terms of networking is still being chosen for different systems. Even if they have one of their own ASICs, they will often use our switching capability as well. So we're in a full design at end-to-end, and we're really excited in terms of how the networking has also been established within Vera Rubin.

Yes. And as a reflection of the traction on networking the team announced its -- you've always been a leader in band switching, right? And as your customers were clearly signaling to the NVIDIA team that they were moving to more of an Ethernet-based switching from the team bought the market has to go your Spectrum Ethernet switching platform. That went from like 0 to $10 billion to annualize in like record time, right? And I think that last you updated us your annualized run rate on Spectrum X was like $10 billion annualized. I think that was in the July quarter.

And the October quarter, that looks like that, that stepped up to sort of annualized run rate for your Spectrum some platform. Jensen and you and the team announced their next-generation Spectrum-6 platform, right? This is 120 terabits per second throughput switch, right? One of the fastest switches in the world. You're bringing that to market with Vera Rubin, right? So if you think about the $12 billion, $13 billion sort of annualized run rate in the October quarter, you've got a new platform coming out of Spectrum-6. You look at your order book for Vera Rubin. Like where could this number on Spectrum be as we move through -- as we move through next year?

So not getting a forecast going forward, but to understand where we already are in terms of the attachment. We're going to see something resonate in terms of our growth in terms of consumer and our growth in networking data time. The only difference that you do have is just the timing of when each of those systems are put together in a full data center infrastructure that they're doing.

You may have -- parts of that networking is the first things that are put in place in terms of the data center and with some of the last part of the data center as networking, that's the only thing that really changes the growth. But so we are expecting nearly these things, not more of an attach rate in terms of what we are seeing in networking and growth moving forward.

Great. And then maybe switching over to China. I know you've got some questions yesterday in the financial analyst Q&A. But following the U.S. government's approval of the H200 sales into China, it appears customer interest actually looks very strong way. So the question is, has the team started receiving orders from approved China entities for the H200? More importantly, how rapidly can the team start shipping H200 to these customers? And how should we frame our kind of revenue opportunity over the next 12 to 24 months?

What I remember Jensen had previously last year quantified the China revenue opportunity for calendar '25, that $50 billion growing at a 50% CAGR, right? 50% growth implies $75 billion of potential revenue demand for NVIDIA this year. Is that how we should think about the China revenue and growth profile and opportunity?

Great question. Let's first talk about the H200. We're very pleased that the U.S. government saw that this was the right opportunity for us to fairly be able to compete worldwide and providing a really good product to China. And that's what this is all about. The ability for us to ship H200 to our customers still requires a license from the U.S. government and the U.S. government work tediously right now on that process in order for them to determine the licenses for the customers. So the customers have requested the licenses, and we are now awaiting that part of that.

But also on the same side, we have heard from these customers from a demand perspective. That's important for us so that we can prepared as those 2 things come together. The POs and the completion of the licenses with the U.S. government will set us on our way to begin shipping the H200 to China. We hope that, that gets done soon.

But again, it's not all something that we can right now control, but we do are very pleased in terms of the U.S. government's decision to do that. So we're going to wait and see what will happen. It kind of steps back though and says, what is the demand in terms of China, it's a very, very important economy and has a tremendous amount of strong engineers and AI engineers compared to also what we see here in the U.S.

So it's also a very big business as Jensen articulated, and it's not a static business. It's going to grow very similar in terms of what we are seeing here in the United States. If we can continue selling, going forward with any of those different licenses that U.S. government has. So more to be determined at that, but let's just wait to see how we can get our H200 out.

Got it. And then on the recently announced a nonexclusive licensing deal with Grok, Grok was focused on this SRAM-based, high-throughput inferencing engine. Very good for low user count and low model parameter influencing, seems like more of an enterprise-focused solution versus NVIDIA's inferencing fronting solutions, which focuses on very high user cloud, massive contact input capability, right, more targeting foundational model developers. I wanted to get your views on the rationale for the Grok transition? And how NVIDIA thinks of integrating their technology into your product road maps and target markets?

We're very pleased to both have the Grok IP with us. And that's what we created with an IP license stemming from Grok and their pieces. But the other most important part of it was an exceptional team that has now joined us as well. You are correct, their work in terms of inferencing, low-latency inferencing has been a lot of work that they have done. We're seeing tremendous engineering horsepower to do so. We found it is quite exciting and something very similar of our thoughts and work going forward as well.

Bringing them onboard with that IT were excited in terms of what the teams could work together. So excited we got it done before the holiday. We have that completed and we're already with -- many of them are already with us beginning that work. So stay tuned. We don't have anything yet in terms of the exact timing when something will come to market but this is an important area.

The complexity of inferencing, the size of inferencing interest market and different needs there's going to be and being such an exceptional team, we will be able to put something great together.

In terms of some of the market concerns that we continue to hear about, right, and one of them is the concern around the gap between a few of the foundational model builders and the current financial profiles and the data center compute capacity, right, that they've committed to over the next pages, OpenAI, Anthropic, et cetera, right? They're committing to a lot of capacity to you, competitors, some of the large hyperscale. Obviously, these AI labs will have to raise money, right? So how do you think about the risk to NVIDIA's business?

The model makers are very both foundational model makers, but also in terms of open source models as well. Most of them, if you look at them as a whole are being a very methodical piece by piece as they continue building a new training model. Okay, let's move to the inferencing and now let's get started for my next and moving in that methodical way. Many of them have had and worked in terms of how do I source to raising of cash, the raising of equity, the combination of the 2 and how do I work that carefully either with the funds or looking at it in terms of on theirselves.

I think a lot of that is very solid diligence in terms of what we'll probably see continue going forward. They are essential. These foundational models are essential from a concept's perspective in terms of what we're going forward. So working and forming and storming with how to get that completed. I think it has gone very well. Sure. They're looking in terms of long term to help us understand. This is not our ability to complete AI in the next couple of years.

This is decades. So they may talk about it in terms of gigawatts of size as we go forward. But the reality is, it's really about the year by year or quarter by quarter, how do they need to build, where do they need to build? Are they in the research side? Are they looking in the inferencing? And I think that process is fine.

Many of them are also with the CSPs. That's a very big help for them. Their -- quality of what the CSPs can provide for them so that they can concentrate on building up their models is a great combination, and we're happy to support that. And many of the work that we are doing is through the CSP and therefore, the model makers is sold, whether those CSPs be in their cloud or some of our long-standing tremendously great CSPs that we've had. It's working quite diligently in terms of all that work. So I think we're going to see more of that to come. But again, we just have to take this day by day, step by step and start to rethink about what they're planning to put together.

Colette, we're at the Consumer Electronics Show. And the one thing that we noticed was a distinct absence of new GeForce gaming platforms this year. And then I guess the question to you is are there concerns of continuing supply of DRAM and HBM memory for gaming? How are you prioritizing allocating these components, gaming versus data center? Do you think that there is potential for demand destruction in the seasonally stronger second half of the year given that especially DRAM pricing looks to continue to increase to the remainder of this calendar year?

Our gaming business has been a homerun where our representation with our gamers continues to be tremendously strong and coming out with what we had with Blackwell was also hitting great strides. At the very beginning, we underestimated in terms of that growth. And that growth was so fast at the very beginning, but we have now brought that up to good level. But given our size of where we are as a percentage of our gaming markets, we're going to contain some both of prioritization, what will they need as we go forward.

But still more in terms of later on in terms of this year and next in terms of to focus. But the best part that we're pleased about is these platforms and enables creative and AR type of platforms that they can use are really an important business model. So stay tuned as we think through, demand is, again, quite strong. And we're going to try and make sure it will not serve as much as demand as we can.

And then my last question, and I appreciate the time spent here. You've guided to mid-70s gross margins, while acknowledging, right, to the potential for rising input costs looking into this year levers matter the most to compact the margin, you get mix? Is it pricing, cost downs? Is it supply chain efficiencies? And where are you least willing to compromise as you think about on these levels?

Yes. It's always an interesting discussion on all the gross margin piece of that. It really showed a focus of us not just getting the confuse out, but doing it very in a great position, both with our manufacturers, our suppliers and in terms of our internal teams in terms of how we can do this well.

We have split very close right now at that mid-70s right now. We don't want to look at this as, yes, we're here to grow, grow, grow that higher. We are here to keep what we said as it is it's mid-70 days right now as we go forward. It takes a lot of different banks. When you work at the complexity of the system, you are focusing in terms of every last patient component. We have already done a significant amount of reordering.

We do understand what it took for the capacity of many of our suppliers and we're very supportive the many different suppliers that have pulled that together. But that now moves us working together with manufacturing. How do we improve that cycle time? How did we think about improving all of the different focus of the business as a whole? Not only can we do better and focus on that cycle time, we did also improve the cycle time of them just getting that to customers and the faster the customers.

Remember, as we move into this new year, we still have a combination of different platforms that we're building. It's not just one product. And that will both enable and also be a mix, so we have to keep in mind as we move into this new year. So right now and what you've seen all of our steps for Vera Rubin as well as what you see with GB300, very serious in terms of that process and getting that together. So we do feel that confidence that will also be something that we can work well. But let's not look at it as something easy. We will continue to work to stay about that same page.

Absolutely correct. We're just about out of time. I want to thank you as always, for your participation and your support. We look forward to strong growth ahead this year for the NVIDIA team and another solid year of execution by the team as well. So thank you very much for your participation and support.

Thank you so much. Have a great day.

Thank you.

Okay. Happy New Year. It's all right. You could talk. How do we get this going? It's almost like we're doing this for the very first time.

I think we have our council...

Yes. First question over here.

All right.

Atif Malik from Citigroup. Jensen, you had a slide on the number of tokens, 10x more tokens on Rubin versus Blackwell. The question I have, historically, you have shown a slide of Blackwell performance versus TPUs on training. Any kind of simulation that can kind of put the performance of Rubin on the inference versus TPUs?

It's hard to because the only thing that's available is MLPerf. And we subject ourselves to a fair amount of -- I'm sorry. I had to spit out my candy. I'm just -- I came without a voice. I don't know where I left it. It didn't show up today.

As you know, we subject ourselves to a whole lot of benchmarking because NVIDIA is everywhere, and we're easy to benchmark, but nobody could really benchmark a TPU unless you're the TPU people. And so we don't have anything to benchmark. If you guys have anything to benchmark, we're happy to take a look at it. And I think you'll find that it compares very nicely.

MLPerf is an indication, and MLPerf is quite rigorous. MLPerf is largely governed by Google. And so -- and it's very rigorous. It's so rigorous that almost nobody finishes the test.

We're the only company that has ever finished the test every time. We finish the test every time. We subject ourselves to submission every time. So you know you're allowed to take the test. And if you don't like your own answer after you see other people's answer, you could withdraw your submission. It's the only test in the world that has this kind of stability. And we're fine with it. And so we're usually the one that submits first. And so everybody sees our answers and then they decide whether they want to submit or not. And so my sense is that a lot of people have taken the test. Not all of them can finish it, but some of them have. I just don't think that they submit it for maybe ulterior reasons. And so that tells you something.

If we're the only one that submitted the test and everybody else is empty, I think that just tells you what the answer is. It's not like nobody showed up to the Olympics. They all showed up. They just decided, we'll just let you run by yourself. But one of the best benchmarks is actually semi-analysis. It's a living, breathing benchmark that's there. I like it because it's living and breathing. It's continuously updating, as you guys know. And so I like that fairly well. And I hope that they submit themselves to that because DeepSeek and Kimi, Qwen, these are state-of-the-art reasoning models. They're based on MOE. They're very hard. It's not for the faint of heart. Almost anybody can run it to completion. I mean you'll get a token out of it. But to do it at the rates that we're talking about, it takes super human capabilities at that point. And this is where NVIDIA's extreme code design capability where we're designing across the GPU, the CPU, the NICs, the NVLink switches, the CX NICs, I mean all of that is working together.

The amount of software that has to come together for a rack that I was showing today, that pod that I was showing today, just if you just think about it for a second, aside from the one that you saw there today, I don't think anybody has ever seen one really built from the ground up with that kind of capability. And so NVIDIA wrote every line of code and designed every chip, created all the systems, optimized all the algorithm.

We contributed everything back to open source, so everybody else can take advantage of it as well. And that tells you something about the level of leadership that we have. But that's -- DeepSeek is another example. And I think today, somebody just published, is it Signal65 or something like that. They just analyzed our performance and it shows about a 10:1 from Hopper to Blackwell and 10:1 reduction in cost. And yet between Hopper and Blackwell, the transistor count was only 2x, right? And so that tells you why it's so essential anymore to do co-design at the level that we're talking about. Because if you can't change everything across the whole thing, how are you going to overcome Moore's Law?

If your architecture is basically the same and you're just making a faster XPU, whatever PU you like to build, if you're just building one chip, who cares? Amdahl's law gets in the way, and you're not getting that many transistors anyhow. And so I think we've fairly clearly revealed that in this new world, if you want to keep up with the rate of model size growth, 10x growth and token growth and cost decline and new -- getting to the new frontier, and you want to go fight every single one of these battles unless you're able to keep up with the type of systems we're talking about, I think you're going to have a very hard time.

Vivek Arya from Bank of America Securities. Thanks for the informative keynote. I just wanted to clarify, Jensen, this Vera Rubin in full production, what does this mean? How is it different than what you thought before? Are you able to now ship it and recognize revenue faster? So I just wanted to clarify that.

And then my more strategic question is about your Grok licensing announcement. What does it mean in kind of the near and longer term that are we now getting to a place where NVIDIA thinks that you will need more specialized data, say ASIC-like chips for certain kinds of inferencing. What does it mean for your road map going forward? Or should we expect to see a lot more of this kind of specialization, right? And what the implications are?

Okay. Yes. I don't mean to be pedantic, but NVIDIA's chips are ASICs. As you know, I was the youngest employee at the first ASIC company the world ever created, called LSI Logic. Will Corrigan, I think I was employee 150 or something like that, and I was just a kid out of school. And I was interested in ASICs because it was really about system designers using design tools to design their own chips. That's really what that meant.

NVIDIA in a large way is just a systems company. It's much more natural for us to stand in front of a rack like the Vera Rubin pod than it is for us to stand in front of a chip. And so we're very much a systems company. And we built -- we use design tools in TSMC to build our version of ASICs. So they're ASICs.

There's no question in my mind that it will be -- I think the probabilities of keeping up with Vera Rubin is very low for the industry if you're building one chip at a time. I would say that it would -- I don't want to say impossible, but it's modulo, something close to impossible. It's not a one chip wonder thing. And you're not going to build a chip, connect them in a Taurus point-to-point because it's easier to build the interconnect if one chip connects to another chip connects to another chip. There's no switches to design. But in the case of MOE, you need all-to-all. Every single layer is an all-to-all layer. And so in our case, we literally just send information all to all, to all the GPUs. The GPUs just send information to each other through the switch. It's one hop.

In everybody else's case, you got to pass the token from one chip to another chip to another chip, depending on the size of your pod, that could be 9 hops, it could be 5 hops. And if you're doing this repeatedly as a fundamental part of the processing, it really adds up. And all to all gets in the way. And so I think the -- it's not that -- I think in the case of Vera Rubin, in the case of Grace Blackwell, I think that to build a high throughput, high-performing AI factory, I'm fairly confident with the strategy that we have.

Now the question is, in the case of Grok, I think they came to the conclusion that there's just no nook and cranny to fit into. And so they were quite interested in being part of our company. And I really like the team. And the reason for that is because even though the mainstream part of AI is likely to remain the type of -- remember, the model builders are building for an architecture that would run, right? And whose architecture is the most pervasive in the world is ours. So by definition, the model shape kind of wants to fit the processor. It's a bit of a chicken and egg, egg chicken. And so it's a feedback. It's a positive virus virtual cycle now. And so it's very likely that the vast majority of AI is going to run that way.

I really like the work that they did with extreme low latency. Low latency and high throughput are enemies of each other, just fundamentally. And NVIDIA was built for extremely high throughput. And so the question is, is there a place in AI in the future where maybe the response time is like literally instantaneous. And you're willing to pay something for it. You're willing to pay something for it.

Let's say it's connected to my glasses. It's a use case not today, and let's say it's not a use case of normal. And literally, you're just -- it's like right there in your head, but it's in the cloud. Are you guys following me?

And so the latency has to be super low. It can't afford this a few hundred milliseconds up, a few hundred milliseconds down. You say something, the AI thinks about it for a second or 2 and then responds. It's really hard to have this interactive, very comfortable, the sense of persistent AI. And so maybe there's a place where we might, if you will, create something unique. And so maybe a combination of something like that. But I'm just -- I'm shooting the stuff with you right now. I can't tell you when I'm going to build, but it probably is quite unique and quite cool. But it won't affect our core business. I'm hoping that it expands something new, opens something new.

So let me answer your second part of your question regarding Vera Rubin. Jensen mentioned on stage that we're in full production. If you recall, most recently, we said the tips have shaped out. So we're showing you the progress that we're making, but we're still planning on the second half of this year in terms of bringing that to market.

Yes. Cycle time is 9 months plus, I would say.

You guys are on the cusp of transforming so many tremendous industries, the data center market, which you're attacking. Autonomous, you mentioned a lot about that, robotics. Could you help us understand the scope and timing for some of these key markets that you're addressing? Specifically, I would love to understand the revenue model, how you're thinking about it for Alpamayo and then also timing of robotics?

We started our first -- the first person I assigned to work with me on autonomous vehicles was 8 years ago. 3 years after that, we were able to demonstrate that we could do this. And Ola, the CEO of Mercedes, Mercedes partnered with us to build this into their fleet. It took another 5 years to architect their entire fleet to make it industrial safe to scale at the levels of a passenger vehicle that is quite sensitive about safety. And so the safety technology we implemented into the Mercedes and the driving capabilities took this long, and now we're in production.

Meanwhile, we take all of that technology, and we share with everybody. And so you might have seen on the list, BYD is a great partner of ours, Geely and Xiaomi and Stellantis and just about every robotaxi company is working with us. Nuro, I should have said it. Nuro, I think, is announcing a robotaxi at the show. And so whether it's our data center systems that are used to train the models.

So in the case of Tesla, they use our data center systems to train their models. And we've got a bunch of open source software, as I mentioned, all of our infrastructure stack, some of it's related to simulation, and some of it's related to synthetic data generation and world foundation models. And we make all of that available to the AV industry. So whether it's Tesla or BYD or Xiaomi or you name it, Li Auto and Xpeng and all of these companies are using NVIDIA. Almost everybody who has a self-driving anything has NVIDIA in the data center. And that's billions of dollars, and it's just getting started.

Some of them use us in the car. And so all car dimensioned. And then, of course, some companies in the case of Mercedes and several others are going to deploy the entire stack, okay? So we make it so that we build the whole thing, but we're delighted when the ecosystem thrives and somebody else delivers the whole stack instead of us or they actually build a chip, but we're actually in the data center, and they're actually using our software stack. I'm actually okay with all of that. It doesn't matter.

Just we want a thriving ecosystem, and I'm so confident that we're going to be at the center of it no matter what. And so I think autonomous vehicles at this point, whether it's Waabi building a self-driving truck or Aurora, Chris' company and robotaxis of the likes, okay? So it's going to be quite a large significant business now in the next 10 years. And so how long did it take us? It was 8 years getting here. But then now it's already a multibillion-dollar business. I ventured to say somewhere between $5 billion to $10 billion. And by the end of 2030, by the end of the decade, it's going to be a very large business. It has to be at this point. And so that's how long it takes. But we're not wired that way.

The way that we're wired, we ask the question, number one, is this insanely hard to do? And if it's not insanely hard to do, then why do we do it at all? And so we ask ourselves, is it hard to do? Is it something that we are just uniquely fit at doing? And I think in this particular case, we're fairly singular in our ability to support basically the rest of the ecosystem. There are 2 very good companies, Tesla and Waymo are excellent at doing it for themselves. And we do it basically for everybody else. And I think we're quite unique in our ability to do that. And so -- and then the last part is we like things that take a long time.

I love being part of an industry where at the beginning, nobody even gives you a bit of a never mind about whether this is going to be a growth business or not. And which means if you take a look at almost everything that I do, and I literally play it out for you guys in plain sight. And I know 99% of you just go, that' s 0, that's 0, that's 0, that's 0. And I love that. I love that.

I love the fact that NVIDIA is powering just about every quantum computer in the world, and everybody goes 0, 0, 0. And I love the fact that people call us -- I mean, somebody actually describes us as a gorilla in the health care industry. How could we be gorilla in health care? But that's because we're working with just about everybody, the robotics companies, the imaging companies, the AI companies, the drug discovery companies. And so 8 years ago, that was 0. And so I'm very comfortable with that. And I like these things where it takes a long time. But when you finally get there, it's very likely you'll be quite alone.

It's Ben Reitzes, Melius Research. Great to be here. Jensen, the first part of my question is really serious. What's going on with the jackets? You had a really shiny one in the keynote, and now there's a dull one, and I was kind of going to buy the prior model. Is the quarter going really well? Are we in a multi-jacket business model now? Or what's going on?

There's no question I'm in the multi-jacket life. That's because business is going pretty well. Ben. Thanks for asking. I think that's a perfect tee up for demand is really strong. Demand is really strong. The reason why wear that one is, as you know, we're in Vegas. We can't take ourselves too seriously.

However, I always feel a little insecure walking up like that because there's somebody who's a shareholder probably, and they're -- they didn't know that I'm in Vegas. And they pulled this thing out and here's the CEO of NVIDIA wearing this glitzy jacket. I always wonder about that one person. But I said Vegas. I was very clear. We're in Vegas. What happens in Vegas? And that's why I can't wear that jacket now.

All right. Well, now I have to ask a serious question. You showed that great slide. It was the second to last slide with the 1/10 and the better token economics. I wanted to ask you about Anthropic. They could have got all the trainiums they want. They could have got all the TPUs they want, and now they're going to use a lot of your compute.

Is that slide like did they see Rubin coming and feel like they need to get going? And is there anybody else taking certain workloads that are going to that maybe we're geared for TPU, trainiums or something else that are going towards Rubin because they got to get part of that token economics.

We really would have -- if I could have rewound time, I would have made some different choices with Anthropic because in the beginning, they really wanted to work with us, but they also need a funding. And at the time, we just didn't have the resources to make funding to another start-up at the scale that they needed. But there were 2 other companies that did. They were already quite large.

Amazon and Google were already quite large. And so they were very supportive of Anthropic in the beginning, and we couldn't afford it. And so I think that, that was -- that's kind of my excuse, I guess. But the thing where Anthropic is now, nobody is generating more high-quality tokens because it's delivered for a very -- some of the most important use cases in enterprise, which is coding. And their Anthropic cloud code is really, really good. And as you know, one of the challenges for cloud code is that their token generation rate is too long. And for software engineers, you really want to iterate. And so you need the token generation rate to be supremely fast because you're iterating. It generates an answer, you might not like it, it generates another answer. And so you're iterating with this AI assistant.

The iteration process requires fast token generation, and I think we could add a lot of value here. And so I think the -- I'm really happy that we're working together. NVIDIA is now the only platform in the world that runs every model. We run X, we run, of course, OpenAI, Gemini, we run Anthropic. And we literally run every single open source model in the world and whether it's physical AI or cognitive AI. And so the ability for us to be the every AI company, to be the every AI company, I think, is a really great positioning because when you're trying to build something, you have no idea when you're -- if you're an enterprise company or you're building your own cloud, let's say, it's a sovereign cloud or you're an AI lab.

You really have no clue where the journey is going to take you. And so you want a platform that runs everything and that the ecosystem is really rich. And so I think with the Anthropic announcement last year, we became -- that was really the last one, the only one that didn't run on NVIDIA. And so I'm very, very happy about that.

Thank you for doing this Q&A session. Aaron Rakers at Wells Fargo. I appreciate the conversation. There's a lot of dynamics going on around the supply chain, be it DRAM pricing, be it supply availability. But I'm curious if you could talk about that a little bit. And I guess the second part of that is there's been recent discussions around power and how -- I'd be curious on how you see the power envelope playing out. Is that a limiting factor to what you see as far as this build-out? Any updated thoughts around that?

Our supply chain goes upstream and downstream. And our advantage is that because our scale was already so large and because we were growing so fast already at such a large scale, we were preparing our partners for this large ramp quite some time ago.

All of you have been talking to me about supply chains for, what, 2 years now because of the scale of the supply chain that we have and the growth, not just the rate of our growth, but the scale and rate of our growth is -- every quarter, we're growing the size of an entire company, isn't that right? And that's just the delta, okay? And entire giant company, we're not talking about the start. We're talking about -- we're growing a publicly traded chip company every quarter. And so all of the supply chain stuff that we did with MGX, the rack level.

The reason why we're so thoughtful about how to improve all of that and standardize the components and don't waste the ecosystem, don't waste the supply chain for our partners and all the investments that we've made in them and many of them, we supported with prepay for -- so that they could build out their capacity, not tens of billions. I mean we're talking hundreds of billions of dollar stuff that we're helping the supply chain get primed up. And so I think we're in a good position because we've had such a long relationship with them. And remember, we're just about the only chip company in the world that buys DRAM.

If you take a second, you take a step back, we're the only chip company in the world that buys DRAM. People have asked us why do we buy DRAM? Because as it turns out, turning that DRAM into a CoWoS into a supercomputer is supremely hard. And getting that supply chain really plumbed up, it gave us a huge advantage.

Now that things are in a tough spot, we feel fortunate to have the skill. And then we also -- speaking of power, so look at the number of partners we have upstream. The number of system makers and we're buying memory and they're buying memory, we're buying multilayer ceramic capacitors and they're buying MLCCs and right, they're buying PCB and we're buying PCB, and we're getting everybody all around us.

Now look at us down -- so the diversity and the scale of our supply chain backwards upstream is a huge advantage. We're the only chip company that buys directly tens of billions of dollars of DRAM from all the DRAM makers. We buy from every HBM partner. isn't that right? We certified and qualified every one of them and got them all prepped. Now go downstream.

We're the only company in the world that works with every cloud in the world. Isn't that right? The outlets of our technology is incredible in every country, big ones and small ones and start-ups and sovereign nation ones and government-funded supercomputers and labs, and we're working with every single one of them. And so we have partners that are so diverse and broad. So our outlet downstream is really good. Not to mention, as you know, we realized this importance of knowing downstream our supply chain that's going to affect our growth that we invested in, partnered with, supported land power shell companies and people asked us why we're doing that to get ready for today because we have to see our supply chain from all the way back from the equipment makers. That's why from AMAT to ASML or partners, all the way down to setting up a supercomputer and generating the first token.

If you just look at that entire path, you will see partners, customers, NVIDIA invested companies up and down that thing because we're thinking about it constantly. Getting ready -- getting the world ready to remodernize $10 trillion of the last decade's IT investment. Isn't that what we're trying to do? You just got to -- what are you trying to do? Say it out loud, what does that all mean? It's not a PowerPoint slide. This is a giant endeavor what we're trying to do, and it happened. It's happening on first principal reasons. I mean are we building these things and would there be consumption? We fundamentally changed the computer. You got to -- you can't use that last one. You got to use this one. And every customer knows it. Everybody in the ecosystem knows it.

Stacy Rasgon with Bernstein. I have 2 questions. Maybe one for Colette and one for you, Jensen. Colette, and maybe it builds on the supply chain points that you just made, Jensen. Around China, so clearly, now there may be an opening to sell parts there that were not sort of being contemplated before. Is the supply chain right now robust to support, I don't know what we might call a meaningful ramp without impacting the rest of the business and the supply you've already secured for the rest of the business?

And Jensen, if I could just very quickly touch on -- you made some comments on DGX Cloud. early in your talk. And you talked about that was not a market you're trying to enter. But I mean, you clearly were trying to enter it at one point. So what's changed? It feels like something has changed there. Was that customer pushback? Or was it just the opportunity set or what?

Let me take your supply question regarding H200 and what we may do for China. We have plenty of supply for all of our different countries, particularly in the United States to meet all of the different demand that we have here. So what we will do for H20 is just supply that we will have specific for China. So we're not going to take away from anything we already have with all of our different countries and their orders and demand. So we're still awaiting where we are with the H200.

First, with the government, the government has received licenses, and they are working in terms of how do they want to process those different licenses. On our side, yes, we do have demand as definitely from China, and we just have to make sure we've got a togetherness across all the different governments on getting able to ship that.

Yes, you should be happy to hear demand strong.

Demand is strong. We got that.

Yes. DGX Cloud was always -- has always been located inside a CSP. So it was never intended to compete with them. It was intended to do several things. One, prepare them for the new architecture. And because of DGX Cloud, that first mission statement is preparing them, 100% of the world's CSPs were not AI cloud companies, 100%. 100% have no clue this world. And the first time I met them, 100% rejected us. No, we don't need those kind of things. And so DGX Cloud was engineered, was created as a strategy where, okay, in that case, because I need it for my own AI models, I'll work with you, I'll partner with you to build it in your cloud. And then after we're done, you have an exemplar NVIDIA Cloud, okay? That's number one, so that we can use it as a forcing function because it's a business transaction both ways.

It could be a force because I need to rent it for my own AI models. So I have a strong need. And instead of me setting it up myself, I put it in their cloud, number one. Number two, we attract developers there. There's 20,000 AI natives. You guys, probably hasn't gone unnoticed to you guys this last year, about $150 billion of investment into AI natives because -- and these AI natives, one of the things about AI natives, it means they have cost. AI companies, enterprise companies in the past had very little cost. AI native companies have very high cost, infrastructure. And so when we work with all the AI native companies on DGX Cloud, they become a great customer for the CSP second. So we're really using it as a customer attractor for them.

We also do the third thing, which is all the models that we created, we landed in their clouds so that we can connect our friends like Siemens and Synopsys and Cadence and ServiceNow and Adobe and whenever they work with us, they're essentially going to land inside one of the CSPs. We are one of the best salespeople for the CSPs. We attract so much customers to the world CSPs is incredible. And that's the reason why, on the one hand, they build TPUs, they want to compete with us. On the other hand, they're so gracious about us being in their cloud because we bring customers to them.

NVIDIA runs every AI, as you guys know. And so the fact that we can put ourselves into their clouds, do I need to do that anymore with DGX Cloud? I think increasingly, the answer is not, okay? Because I think the flywheel has started. However, I do need a whole bunch of capacity myself because, as you know, the world's #2 cloud is actually -- the world's #2 AI is actually open source AI. The #1 is OpenAI today. We can all acknowledge that. They generate more tokens than anybody. More services are connected to them than anybody. But the #2 solidly is open source. And so we have to go make sure that we continue to invest in building these open models, and we have now established that we are a pretty awesome frontier AI model builder, and we contribute tremendously to the ecosystem. And everything we contribute benefits our platform.

Everything we contribute benefits the ecosystem and also benefits the verticals that we're going into, self-driving cars, robotics, health care, so on and so forth. And so I think the flywheel, the equation, the strategic rationale is really solid in all of it. And I don't need to rent one token. Now how is it possible I can rent from them and re-rent it and make money. It doesn't make any sense anyhow. Not to mention I'm actually sitting in their cloud. There's no differentiator. And so it was never intended to be a business.

Got it. That's helpful.

It was intended to be a very clever strategy. It turned out to be quite clever.

Jim Schneider, Goldman Sachs. I was wondering if you can maybe talk a little bit about the context memory storage control you announced today. How important is that across a range of use cases? Do you see that as being a bottleneck to performance of a certain subsegment of customer problems? And should we expect you to sort of continue innovating on that vector similar to what you did in networking in the past?

We're the largest networking company in the world today. I'm expecting us to be the largest storage processor company in the world. That I think is likely, very likely to happen. And it's very likely that we will ship more high-end CPUs than just by anybody else either. And the reason for that is because if you look at Vera and Grace and Vera, they go into the SmartNIC of every single node, okay?

We are now the SmartNIC of AI factories. There's other -- a lot of CSPs have their own SmartNICs like Nitro, and they'll continue to have their. But outside, BlueField is incredibly successful. And BlueField-4 is going to knock it out of the park. And so the early -- not the early adoption, but the adoption of BlueField-4. And the software layer on top is called DOCA, rhyming with CUDA. And so DOCA is adopted all over the place now. And so for networking, east-west traffic, high-performance networking, we're the largest.

For network isolation, north-south networking, I'm fairly certain we're going to be one of the largest. For storage, that is a completely unserved market today. The way that storage works is SQL. SQL is structured data. Structured database is lightweight. AI database KV caches insanely heavy weight. You're not going to hang that off of your north-south network. I mean that's just a horrible waste of network traffic. You want to put it right into the computing fabric, which is the reason why we introduced this new tier.

This is a market that never existed. And this market will likely be the largest storage market in the world, basically holding the working memory of the world's AIs. And that storage is going to be gigantic, and it needs to be super high performance. And so I'm so happy that the amount of inference that people do has now eclipsed the computing capability that the world's infrastructure has. And so we now -- the amount of context memory, the amount of token memory that we process, KV cache we process is now just way too high. You're not going to keep it -- keep up with the old storage system. And so when an inflection point in the market happens and you had the vision to see it happen, and then this is a brand-new market because of this inflection. This is the best way to go into a market. And BlueField-4, there's nothing like it, absolutely nothing like it.

Will Stein from Truist Securities.

Someday, nobody is even going to ask me a question about GPUs. I'm going to -- but don't worry, I'm going to have to throw it out there.