NVIDIA reveals its next-gen AI chips 'Rubin Ultra' and 'Feynman'
What's the story
At the GTC 2025 conference in San Jose, California, NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the company's ambitious plans to release a series of advanced AI-accelerating GPUs.
Among these was the 'Rubin Ultra' and 'Feynman' chips slated for launch in 2027 and 2028, respectively.
Huang also provided more details about previously announced chips during his keynote address at the conference, which also saw the debut of two new personal AI supercomputers.
Chip details
Vera Rubin GPU: A leap in AI performance
The highlight of Huang's presentation was the Vera Rubin, a GPU named after the renowned astronomer. Initially hinted at Computex 2024, it is now set to launch in H2 2026.
This new chip is expected to significantly outperform its predecessor, Grace Blackwell, particularly in AI training and inference tasks.
The Rubin features two GPUs on one die that deliver 50 petaflops of FP4 inference performance per chip. It comes with a custom CPU called Vera, featuring 88 ARM cores.
Upcoming releases
Rubin Ultra and Feynman: Future AI chips
Scheduled for release in late 2027, the Rubin Ultra will use the NVL576 rack configuration and have individual GPUs with four reticle-sized dies.
Each chip will offer 100 petaflops of FP4 precision. At the rack level, it promises an impressive 15 exaflops of FP4 inference compute and 5 exaflops of FP8 training performance.
Huang also teased a next-gen GPU architecture called "Feynman," arriving sometime in 2028. However, he did not reveal any key details about it.
AI roadmap
NVIDIA's vision for future AI
During his keynote, Huang painted an optimistic picture of the future of AI, where data centers are "AI factories" producing tokens instead of physical objects.
He imagines a future where "physical AI" will power humanoid robots to perform human-like labor.
Huang also predicted that by the end of this year 100% of NVIDIA engineers will be assisted by AI models and soon NVIDIA chips will power 10 billion digital agents doing helpful work for humans.