The Ultimate NVIDIA GTC 2026 Recap (with Karl Freund and Jim McGregor)
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Send us Fan Mail Leonard, Karl, and Jim attended the AI event of the year, NVIDIA’s GTC 2026. This year, the agentic AI theme went into overdrive with its DeepSeek moment, OpenClaw. Or was it a ChatGPT moment? The trio unpacks a deluge of announcements from NVIDIA’s technology stack and across the domain-specific industry and computing solutions that are meeting the agentic AI moment. In this episode, Leonard, Karl and Jim talk about the top headlines and share their analysis from NV...
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