NVIDIA (NVDA) GTC Taipei 2026 Keynote summary

Opening remarks and ecosystem overview

• GTC Taiwan keynote highlighted the scale of the local ecosystem, with 70 watch parties and a strong supply chain presence in Taiwan.

• Emphasis on the growth of the ecosystem, with Taiwan's GDP projected to grow nearly 10%.

Key announcements and product launches

• Introduced NVIDIA Vera CPU, designed for agentic workloads, with up to 3X bandwidth per core and 1.8X agentic sandbox performance versus x86 CPUs, now in full production with major OEMs and cloud partners.

• Announced NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B parameter model, outperforming competitors in coding, knowledge work, and cost efficiency benchmarks.

• Launched NVIDIA Cosmos 3, a frontier physical AI model excelling in text-to-image, image-to-video, and world understanding tasks.

• Revealed new RTX Spark laptops and a new line of Windows PCs powered by NVIDIA and Microsoft, featuring Blackwell RTX GPU and Grace CPU, available Fall 2026.

• Announced NVIDIA Agent Toolkit for enterprise AI, enabling agentic workflows and orchestration across the NVIDIA AI platform.

Arrival and impact of agentic AI

• Agentic AI has arrived, enabling software developers to triple productivity and drive $9 trillion in output from $3 trillion in salaries.

• AI is increasing demand for software engineers and tokens, making AI a profit and GDP generator.

• The new computing model centers on agents that observe, reason, plan, and use tools, orchestrated by specialized harnesses.