Nvidia unveils AI chips and humanoid robot model

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed fresh details about the company's newest artificial intelligence chip and other advancements at its annual software developer conference, GTC 2025.

The company announced the new Isaac Gr00t N1, the world’s first open humanoid robot foundation model — and simulation frameworks to speech robot development.

The Newton prototype, an Open-Source Physics Engine for Robotics was also brought on to the stage.

Newton is an open-source, extensible physics engine being developed by NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Disney Research to advance robot learning and development.

General Motors will also use artificial intelligence chips and software from Nvidia to develop autonomous vehicle technology for its vehicles and improve workflow at its factories.

The companies plan to work together to build AI systems using Nvidia's platforms to train AI manufacturing models for factory planning. GM also plans to use Nvidia's autonomous tech for future advanced driver-assistance systems.

Huang also announced new chips, including its next GPU chip Blackwell Ultra, which will be available in the second half of this year, and feature more memory than the current generation of its flagship chip Blackwell, meaning it can support larger AI models.

He said Nvidia's chips have two main purposes: helping AI systems respond smartly to a huge number of users, and giving those responses as fast as possible. Huang argued that Nvidia's chips are the only ones that can do both.

He also revealed details of a chip system called Vera Rubin, which will succeed Blackwell and feature faster speeds. It will be released in the second half of 2026.

Huang said Rubin chips will be followed by Feynman chips, arriving in 2028.

Huang also introduced a powerful new personal computer called DGX Workstation based on Blackwell chips, saying it will be made by Dell, Lenovo and HP, among others.