Walking GTC 2026: Demos, Robots, and Racks
Walked the full GTC 2026 expo floor live and talked to everyone I could find. From a hackathon winner demoing an agentic web tool, to a $170K humanoid robot doing Morgan Freeman impressions, to the GB300 workstation that weighs 80 pounds and needs water cooling. Picked up an Inference Engineering book from Base10, got DGX Spark pricing at Micro Center, and stopped by the Cursor booth (they couldn't tell me anything, naturally). This is a raw, uncut floor tour. No fancy B-roll. Just me, a camera, and the people building the next wave of infrastructure. Join our Discord: https://rfer.me/discord GET THE TOOLS Nebius Token Factory: https://nebius.com/ Ingestor: https://ingester.com Base10 Inference Engineering Book: Check your local bookstore or online Engineered Arts (Ameca Robot): https://engineeredarts.co.uk/ Timestamps 00:00:00 NVIDIA GTC Live with Ingestor 00:00:30 The Agentic-Centric Web Concept 00:01:00 Ingestor's Tech Stack & Token Speed 00:02:03 Ingestor Live Demo on United.com 00:02:45 AI-Optimized Website Transformation 00:03:16 Demo Results & Task Checklist 00:04:04 Tavali as an Extraction Layer 00:06:24 Demo Metrics & Token Savings 00:06:51 Nebius DevRel Joins the Stream 00:09:01 Nebius Token Factory Explained 00:13:08 GTC Expo Floor Tour Begins 00:14:55 Dell GB300 Workstation First Look 00:15:35 Inside the Water-Cooled System 00:19:18 Base10 Booth & Inference Engineering 00:23:42 Groq Multi-GPU Tower Concept 00:28:49 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Rack System 00:32:51 McLaren Virtual Wind Tunnel Demo 00:37:20 Self-Repairing Factory Robots 00:38:56 Teleoperated Warehouse Robot Demo 00:41:14 Live "All-In Podcast" with Perplexity AI 00:50:48 Visiting the Cursor Booth 00:53:25 Walking Outside to the GTC Park Area 01:02:00 DGX Spark Pricing at Micro Center 01:04:31 Ameca Humanoid Robot Interaction 01:09:08 Ameca Robot Price and Details 01:13:21 Kiro's "Coder's Worst Nightmare" Booth 01:18:13 Inference Engineering Book Preface 01:29:01 Inference Book Contents Overview 01:40:24 Heading to Jeff Dean's Talk 01:45:21 Entering the San Jose Civic Center #GTC2026 #NVIDIA #DGXSpark #GB300 #InferenceEngineering #AIHardware #Robotics #Cursor #NebIUs #Programming #AIEngineering
