GTC 2025 Recap: ‘The Competition Is Shocked’ By Progress, Collaboration With NVIDIA, Flex
Sometimes, conferences are so big, they become a city within a city… with a very specific agenda. During the week of March 17, 2025, Over 39,000 people descended on San Jose to see all industry giant NVIDIA had to offer at their annual GPU Technology Conference, or GTC. Too big for a booth, one of Torc’s latest generation of autonomous trucks was stationed in the outdoor GTC exhibit area in Cesar Chavez Park, along with our 2025 custom Torc event experience space.
At the heart of the Torc experience, conference attendees closely inspected a sample of Flex’s Jupiter compute design platform, the scalable deck that holds the NVIDIA-powered DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip (SoC) and DriveOS operating system. This scalable high-performance production hardware and software platform is already on the roads in our autonomous-ready Freightliner Cascadias.
“It was really exciting to make our GTC debut this week, along with the announcement of our NVIDIA and Flex collaboration,” CJ King, Torc CTO, said at the event. “As we get closer to commercialization, it’s essential to share more of our best-in-class technology and get our world-class engineers out here to meet and share the story of Torc with others.”
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Virtual Reality was one of the most popular attendee experiences across all the exhibitors this year, including the Torc VR, which allows individuals to “see” the built-in redundancies and systems inside the Freightliner Cascadia chassis. The Autonomous Demo Experience, which plays recorded Torc ADS highway drives along with their sensor visualizations, provided context when speaking to visitors about our sensor suite and product acceptance.
“Showcasing Torc’s production-intent hardware, software and AD kit on Daimler’s Freightliner Cascadia at this level created a significant wave of attention,” said Andrew Culhane, CCO. “We’re thankful for the attention we got from the thousands of GTC attendees, reporters, and technology partners. It’s another proof point that we’re right where we need to be right now, leading the pack in autonomy.”
The world’s leader in AI technology, NVIDIA announced the releases of new Rubin GPUs for 2026, Rubin Ultra in 2027, a new Feynman architecture in 2028, as well as the next-gen Blackwell Ultra B3000 GPUs. Jensen Huang’s two-hour keynote address on Tuesday drew over 20k people to San Jose’s SAP Center.
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