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Nvidia's GTC conference kicked off with a long keynote from CEO Jensen Huang, a roadmap extending in 2028 and an integrated AI stack that's hard for rivals to match.
Oracle and Nvidia expanded their partnership in a move that will bring Nvidia AI Enterprise, Nvidia Blackwell GB200 NVL72 and agentic AI blueprints to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Nvidia launched DGX Spark, formerly Project Digits, and DGX Stations as it aims to bring AI supercomputers to students, developers, researchers and data scientists.
Nvidia launched a family of open reasoning AI models designed for agentic AI as well as new world foundation models.
Nvidia launched Blackwell Ultra, which aims to boost training and test time inference, as the GPU giant makes the case that more efficient models such as DeepSeek still require its integrated AI factory stack of hardware and software. Vera Rubin and Rubin Ultra on deck.
Adobe laid out its customer experience vision that includes multiple purpose-built AI agents, automated experiences that can adapt on the fly and scaling personalization.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said: "Our vision is to bring each of our unique strengths together to offer customers and partners a highly differentiated, Unified Security Platform."
Zoom Communications is adding a set of agentic AI capabilities to Zoom AI Companion so it can take actions across its platform for collaboration and customer experience.
Kore.ai launched a platform to develop, deploy and manage agentic AI applications as a bevy of players race to become the orchestration layer for AI agents.
Enterprises are taking their own secret sauce--first party data--and combining it with AI models. The early results are promising, but you're also going to see mergers that are driven in part by first party data.
Rubrik hammered home how enterprises are focusing more on cyber resilience. During Rubrik's conference call, cyber resilience was mentioned 30 times.
Not all vendors will take the hit, but those with sizeable federal government businesses are saying March has indicated businesses may slow. Meanwhile, enterprises are likely to take longer to make decisions on technology.
