Nvidia Just Made Catching Tesla a Lot Easier

At Nvidia’s GTC conference last week, Jensen Huang wrapped up his keynote by inviting a snowman onstage.

Not a cartoon. A real, walking, talking robotic Olaf from Frozen, built in partnership with Disney Research and Walt Disney Imagineering. The little guy waddled out, arms flailing just like in the movie, and the crowd lost it.

But this wasn’t showbiz fluff.

It was the clearest signal yet that Nvidia isn’t just powering the data centers behind today’s AI boom ...