Founder and CEO of NVIDIA Jensen Huang delivered a Keynote address to kick off NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026, promising a transformational future with Taiwan serving a critical role in its development.
In front of a packed crowd at the Taipei Music Center, along with thousands watching the livestream around the world, Huang boldly announced NVIDIA’s next focus in the AI revolution, Agentic AI.
Calling it “a profit generator,” Huang highlighted how the massive potential output from these agents will lead to more tokens generated, more profitability, and more demand for all aspects of the AI supply chain. This will lead to a whole new paradigm and computing patterns, he said, as AI agents become more able to think, reason, plan, and use tools. Using an example of losing a battery clip, he demonstrated how a user could describe the problem to an agentic AI, who would then generate the necessary code and files.
“The world is no longer limited by the number of people,” Huang said, promising that AI would not replace workers but enable greater productivity.
“People talk about AI reducing jobs, complete nonsense. It’s causing more software engineers to be hired,” he added.
An important aspect of this moving forward is what he called AI factories, massive data centers that he said will serve as critical infrastructure for the AI ecosystem. These AI factories are purpose-built data centers focused on manufacturing intelligence, lowering compute times, and delivering revenue to their owners.
These factories are the “largest infrastructure build out in human history,” he added.
NVIDIA is now an AI infrastructure company, Huang said. Its AI factories focus on generating tokens per watt, which in turn means higher revenues for the company’s partners.
As part of this push, Huang announced that NVIDIA has developed a new CPU, Vera Rubin, that is “built for agents.” Vera Rubin has 40% lower peak memory latency compared to x86 CPUs, and 50% faster core to core communication than traditional CPU and memory, Huang said.
For consumer-facing products, Huang said that NVIDIA and Microsoft will “reinvent” the PC with the RTX Spark. He asked viewers to imagine a PC, with a local AI agent, that could understand prompts, generate assets, and continuously work. He compared the transformation of the consumer PC to the smartphone revolution, promising major gains in creative apps, gaming, and scientific research.
Huang made sure to highlight the role Taiwan’s ecosystem played in the company’s groundbreaking innovations.
“We did this with Taiwan. Together, we reinvented computing for the age of AI. Taiwan was with us at the beginning. And here today as we bring Vera Rubin to the world. Thank you Taiwan.”
Huang called Taiwan the “world’s best supply chain ecosystem,” mentioning NVIDIA’s 150 supply chain partners across the country,
