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AI Daily Brief — 16 March 2026

Jensen Huang’s GTC 2026 keynote at the SAP Center unveils the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform — six new chips, one AI supercomputer — built around the 336-billion-transistor Rubin R100 GPU and a custom 88-core Vera CPU. The pitch: 5× Blackwell’s inference performance at 10× lower cost per token. NVIDIA NemoClaw ships in early preview as the open OpenClaw stack on NVIDIA devices.

Top stories

  • Vera Rubin platform announced. Built around Rubin R100 (336B transistors) and a custom 88-core Vera CPU. 5× Blackwell inference perf at 10× lower per-token cost. via NVIDIA
  • NVIDIA NemoClaw early preview. Open-source stack on top of OpenClaw, optimising agentic AI for NVIDIA devices — increased security and support for local models. via NVIDIA
  • $1T orders signalled. Jensen confirms $1 trillion in combined Blackwell + Vera Rubin purchase orders through 2027. via Data Center Knowledge

By the numbers

  • Rubin R100: 336B transistors · Vera CPU: 88 cores
  • Vs Blackwell: 5× inference · 10× lower cost per token
  • $1T combined Blackwell + Vera Rubin orders through 2027

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from publicly reported announcements on 16 March 2026.