India, March 18 -- A capacity crowd at the SAP Center, San Jose, USA, were all waiting for the same thing!

The NVIDIA GTC 2026 keynote opened with a video framing the token as the basic unit of modern AI - the building block behind systems used for scientific discovery, virtual worlds and machines operating in the physical world.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang then took the stage to raucous applause from the crowd.

He opened by thanking the pregame show hosts and highlighting the partners participating in the show, along with the 450+ sponsors, 1,000 sessions and 2,000 speakers. "This conference is going to cover every single layer of the five-layer cake of artificial intelligence," Huang said. He marked the 20th anniversary of CU...