What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet

What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet
Loading the player… CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an “OpenClaw strategy,” and closing with a rambl

Loading the player… <p class="wp-block-paragraph">CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/jensen-just-put-nvidias-blackwell-and-vera-rubin-sales-projections-into-the-1-trillion-stratosphere/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nvidia’s GTC conference</a> this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every company needs an “<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/nvidias-version-of-openclaw-could-solve-its-biggest-problem-security/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">OpenClaw strategy</a>,” and closing with a rambling Olaf robot that had to get its mic cut. The message was hard to miss: Nvidia wants to be foundational to everything, from AI training to autonomous vehicles to Disney parks. </p>
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