NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang kicked off Computex 2025 in Taipei with a bold vision for an AI-driven future. He emphasized that AI is now fundamental infrastructure, likening it to electricity and the internet, and described how AI data centers are evolving into “AI factories” that generate valuable tokens.
“They’re not data centers of the past,” Huang explained. “These AI data centers, if you will, are improperly described. They are, in fact, AI factories. You apply energy to it, and it produces something incredibly valuable, and these things are called tokens.”
Huang showcased NVIDIA’s CUDA-X platform, highlighting its role in advancing AI, 6G, and quantum supercomputing. He outlined the growing power of AI, leading to “agentic AI,” which can think and act, and “physical AI,” which understands the world—culminating in general robotics.
To meet surging demand, Huang announced innovations such as NVIDIA Blackwell-powered systems, NVLink Fusion to optimise AI data centers, and collaborations with major global tech players. He also detailed NVIDIA’s partnership with Taiwan, including an AI supercomputer project with Foxconn and the Taiwan government.
New product announcements included DGX Spark, a personal AI supercomputer; DGX Station, capable of running trillion-parameter models; NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers for enterprise AI; and NVIDIA AI Data Platform for intelligent storage. He also introduced tools for humanoid robotics, including Isaac GR00T-Dreams and the GR00T N1.5 foundation model.
Huang shares that companies worldwide are investing $5 trillion in new factories, and optimizing their design is crucial for maximising efficiency. Leading Taiwanese manufacturers, including TSMC, Foxconn, and others, are leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse to create digital twins, driving the next phase of industrial physical AI in semiconductor and electronics production.
He also unveiled the opening of the Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI Technology (G-QuAT), home to ABCI-Q, the world’s largest quantum research supercomputer. This breakthrough system, powered by 2,020 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, aims to accelerate quantum-GPU computing to tackle complex challenges in industries like healthcare, energy, and finance. This supercomputer will enable researchers in Japan to explore core challenges in quantum computing and drive progress toward real-world use cases.
Huang ended the keynote by unveiling NVIDIA Constellation, a new Taiwan office to be built in Beitou-Shiulin, and emphasising Taiwan’s crucial role in AI development. He described the industry’s trajectory as a “once in a lifetime opportunity” to build AI factories, AI agents, and robotics within a unified architecture.
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