US EditionNvidia GTC Painting Downtown San Jose Green This Week
Nvidia's GTC 2026 attracted 30,000 attendees showcasing AI tools and collaborations accelerating healthcare R&D with over 3,500 GPUs deployed by Roche, industry leaders said.
- Monday, March 16, 2026, Nvidia's GTC 2026 transformed downtown San Jose, with 30,000 attendees and GTC Park at Plaza de Cesar Chavez.
- Jensen Huang framed the event around surging compute demand, projecting Nvidia could surpass $1 trillion in revenue through 2027 and saying 'This is the first time in history that every one of these companies need compute—lots and lots of it' amid rising 'AI natives'.
- Nvidia and partners unveiled major healthcare initiatives at GTC, including Roche's deployment of more than 3,500 Blackwell GPUs and 1.7 million new protein complexes from EMBL, Google DeepMind, and Seoul National University.
- Local restaurants and bars reported a business surge as WorldWide Technology bought out Mezcal and neighboring Rookies, with about 250 conferencegoers livestreaming Huang's keynote, while traffic snarled downtown and hotel capacity strained across Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt Place, and Signia by Hilton.
- Nvidia framed the announcements as a step toward a compute revolution, unveiling Open-H, Cosmos-H, GR00T-H, and Rheo while AI-native companies and pharma partners signal new infrastructure needs.
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The Mercury newsNvidia GTC painting downtown San Jose green this week
About 30,000 attendees are swarming the city's hotels, restaurants and Plaza de Cesar Chavez during the massive AI conference.
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