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Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra and Rubin AI chips

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Nvidia announced new chips for building and deploying artificial intelligence models at its annual GTC conference on Tuesday .

CEO Jensen Huang revealed Blackwell Ultra , a family of chips shipping in the second half of this year , and Vera Rubin , the company's next-generation graphics processing unit, or GPU , that is expected to ship in 2026 .

The announcements are a test of Nvidia 's new annual release cadence.

Blackwell Ultra chips are better for reasoning AI models, Nvidia says.

The top four cloud companies have deployed three times the number of Blackwell chips as Hopper chips, Nvidia said.

The new Blackwell Ultra will come in versions with eight GPUs in a single server blade and 72 Blackwell chips.

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