Nvidia announced NemoClaw GPU, DLSS 5 upscaling, and Vera CPU at GTC 2026 keynote.

Nvidia's GTC conference keynote on Monday centered on three blockbuster announcements from the AI chip giant, though not all received a warm reception. The announcements included DLSS 5, an AI-upscaling technology for video games; NemoClaw, an open-source AI agent stack; and the Vera CPU, a new processor optimized for agentic AI systems. CEO Jensen Huang highlighted a focus on Nvidia's data center platform, Vera Rubin, and the broader industry trend toward agentic AI.

DLSS 5 promises to give video games a more cinematic experience through AI-powered upscaling that creates highly realistic visuals. According to Nvidia, DLSS 5 brings real-time neural rendering that "infuses pixels with photo-real lighting and materials." The AI model is trained to understand features such as characters, fabrics, translucent skin and environmental lighting systems from a single frame, then generates upscaled visuals for the scene. However, the unveiling drew immediate backlash from gamers who accused it of dramatically altering characters' faces, with some comparing it to AI slop. CNET Managing Editor David Lumb noted that the technology "showed the tech dramatically changing how beloved characters look on the fly, seemingly without input from the game's creators, which rubbed gamers the wrong way," and observed that "when they've gotten wind that a game has used the technology, they've turned on it pretty quickly." CEO Huang dismissed these criticisms, saying developers can fine-tune the model to match their creative vision rather than submitting to AI. DLSS 5 will arrive this fall and will be supported by major game developers including Bethesda, Capcom, Ubisoft and Warner Bros. Games, with titles like Assassin's Creed Shadows, Resident Evil: Requiem, Starfield, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered set to receive the treatment.

Nvidia unveiled NemoClaw, its own reference stack for the AI agent platform OpenClaw, designed to make creating autonomous AI agents accessible. NemoClaw enables simple installation with a single command in the terminal, installing all necessary components. The platform adds a layer of privacy with an "isolated sandbox" that uses policy-based guardrails to provide a more secure, private way to handle data, and it optimizes always-on assistants so they can continue to perform tasks 24/7, especially on dedicated Nvidia hardware.

The new Vera CPU brings double the efficiency and is 50% faster than traditional CPUs today. Designed for the age of agentic AI and reinforcement learning, the CPU enables businesses to build AI factories that can expand agentic AI at scale, offering the highest single-thread performance and bandwidth per core. CEO Jensen Huang stated that "Vera is arriving at a turning point for artificial intelligence." The Vera Rubin platform itself was previously seen at CES, but the latest CPU continues to advance Nvidia's plans for agentic AI with significant power and headroom.