Nvidia GTC: In-depth look at new product lineup

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Shares of Nvidia (NVDA) are trading lower on Tuesday following the company's highly anticipated AI Conference. During the event, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled Nvidia's new product lineup, which includes the groundbreaking Blackwell GPU architecture, the cutting-edge GB200 superchip, and the innovative GROOT humanoid robot software.

Yahoo Finance's Tech Editor Dan Howley breaks down the details and applications of each product released by Nvidia.

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Editor's note: This article was written by Angel Smith

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BRAD SMITH: Our top story this morning, NVIDIA's big AI conference. Shares of the AI Darling ticking lower after CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the company's hotly anticipated next generation Blackwell chip, alongside a number of other announcements.

For those announcements, we go to "Yahoo Finance's" Dan Howley, here with the three biggest takeaways from the opening remarks from the CEO of NVIDIA. Hey, Dan.

DAN HOWLEY: You could probably describe yesterday's conference, where Huang took the stage at the SAP Center in San Jose, as a victory lap for the company. The people were packed up to the rafters. I have some video that we'll have later this week. But it's absolutely incredible to see how many people were in there just to hear everything that he had to say.

And he basically kicked things off from when NVIDIA started investing in AI to today. So the three biggest things that he announced are the new Blackwell GPU architecture. This is basically the successor to its H100 and H200 chip sets, the Hopper architecture.

So going forward, this is what AI chips are going to be based on at NVIDIA. They also announced the new GB200 superchip. That's the Grace Blackwell is what GB stands for. Grace is their CPU. Blackwell is a GPU. And basically, it takes two GPUs and mate them together with a CPU to form, what Huang says is, the world's most powerful chip at the moment.

And so that chip is going to be running different AI inferencing and training programs that companies want to get access to. And then, finally, he announced at the end of the show what they call GROOT, which is basically a new type of AI architecture, a foundation model for humanoid-like robots.

So you can think not exactly like "Terminator" or Bender from "Futurama." But the early stages of getting some kind of humanoid-like robot up and running. And so it would be able to help with motor functions, as well as natural language understanding.