Nvidia’s GTC conference on Monday gave the world the latest from the AI chip behemoth, including a new AI-powered upscaling software for gaming and a new Vera CPU to supercharge the future of AI agents, physical AI and more.
CEO Jensen Huang spelled out Nvidia’s blueprint for remaining the dominant force in the AI industry, focusing on its data center platform, Vera Rubin, as he highlighted the trend toward agentic AI.
If you missed the keynote on Monday, here are the three big announcements you need to know about.
NemoClaw: creating your own autonomous AI agent
Nvidia unveiled its own reference stack for the AI agent platform OpenClaw called NemoClaw, making it easy for anyone to get into the game of creating their own claws. NemoClaw enables a simple installation with a single command in the terminal, installing all the necessary components to get you started.
NemoClaw allegedly adds a layer of privacy with an “isolated sandbox” that uses policy-based guardrails to provide a more secure, private way to handle your data. It will also optimize always-on assistants so they can continue to perform tasks 24/7, especially on dedicated Nvidia hardware.
DLSS 5: bringing AI-powered visual fidelity to games
Nvidia demonstrated impressive advancements in computer graphics, using artificial intelligence to create highly realistic videos. It’s essentially playing a video game that looks like a film. The use of existing graphics capabilities with generative AI-powered upscaling shows a future of gaming that will look nothing like what’s available today. DLSS 5 brings real-time neural rendering that “infuses pixels with photo-real lighting and materials,” according to Nvidia.
The company says the AI model is trained to understand features such as characters, fabrics, translucent skin and environmental lighting systems by analyzing a single frame. DLSS 5 then generates upscaled visuals for the scene.
DLSS 5 will arrive this fall and will be supported by some major game developers, including Bethesda, Capcom, Ubisoft and Warner Bros. Games. Some of the game titles that will receive the DLSS 5 treatment include Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Resident Evil: Requiem, Starfield, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.
Vera CPU: delivering efficiency and performance for the age of agentic AI
Nvidia unwrapped a new Vera CPU that brings double the efficiency and 50% faster than traditional CPUs today. The company says the CPU is built for the age of agentic AI and reinforcement learning.
The Vera CPU enables businesses to build AI factories that can expand agentic AI at scale, offering the highest single-thread performance and bandwidth per core, with founder and CEO Jensen Huang saying, “Vera is arriving at a turning point for artificial intelligence.”
The Vera Rubin platform itself isn’t new — we saw it at CES — but the latest CPU continues to bring Nvidia’s plans for agentic AI to life with serious power and headroom.
