If so, there was plenty of sizzle on offer from Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, at the company's two hour-long GTC keynote event in San Jose Monday. NVIDIA, the world's leading purveyor of AI-friendly GPU chips,

The Nvidia CEO said the company is powering the “largest buildout of human history” as AI investments skyrocket.

Nvidia said the revenue opportunity for its artificial intelligence chips may reach at least $1 trillion through 2027, as the company outlined a strategy to compete more aggressively in the fast-growing market for running AI systems in real time.

The processor became the first to run an AI model based on Google’s Gemini and trained NanoGPT in space. But Vera Rubin is a significant performance improvement over H100, with Nvidia saying the Rubin GPU will provide up to 25x more AI compute power for “space-based inferencing.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock rallied as much as 4% today, with shares touching $188 before pulling back but still closing firmly in the green. The move came as CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at the company’s annual GTC developer conference in San Jose,