{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-03-18-nvidia-blackwell/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-03-18-nvidia-blackwell/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2024-03-18-nvidia-blackwell","date":"2024-03-18","date_precision":"day","short_title":"NVIDIA unveils the Blackwell GPU platform","deck":null,"takeaway":"At GTC 2024, NVIDIA introduced the Blackwell architecture (B200, GB200 NVL72 rack), a dual-die GPU designed for trillion-parameter model training and inference, succeeding Hopper.","category":"hardware-compute","category_label":"Chips & compute","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"NVIDIA Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing (NVIDIA Newsroom)","url":"https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-blackwell-platform-arrives-to-power-a-new-era-of-computing","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"nvidianews.nvidia.com"},{"n":2,"title":"Wikipedia: Blackwell (microarchitecture)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell_(microarchitecture)","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"en.wikipedia.org"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["NVIDIA"],"title":"NVIDIA unveils the Blackwell GPU platform","summary":"At GTC 2024, NVIDIA introduced the Blackwell architecture (B200, GB200 NVL72 rack), a dual-die GPU designed for trillion-parameter model training and inference, succeeding Hopper.","key_facts":["Announced 18 March 2024 at GTC","208 billion transistors across two dies","GB200 NVL72 rack connects 72 Blackwell GPUs via NVLink","Volume shipments ramped from late 2024 into 2025"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["gpu","nvidia","datacenter"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nNVIDIA announced its next-generation AI accelerator and rack-scale systems, with all major clouds as launch customers.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nBlackwell racks became the building block of 2025's gigawatt-scale AI datacenters.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2023-05-30-nvidia-1-trillion","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-30-nvidia-1-trillion/","date":"2023-05-30","date_precision":"day","short_title":"NVIDIA becomes the first chipmaker worth $1 trillion","deck":null,"takeaway":"NVIDIA's valuation became the market's barometer for the AI boom and of the scale of capital flowing into compute.","category":"business","category_label":"Business","importance":3,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"partly","labels":["Partly confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":0,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["NVIDIA"]},{"id":"2022-03-22-nvidia-h100-hopper","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-03-22-nvidia-h100-hopper/","date":"2022-03-22","date_precision":"day","short_title":"NVIDIA announces the H100 'Hopper' GPU","deck":null,"takeaway":"H100 supply became the key bottleneck and currency of the AI race; GPU counts became a proxy for lab ambition.","category":"hardware-compute","category_label":"Chips & compute","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["NVIDIA"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":"https://postcutoff.com/s/nvidia-blackwell-gpu-platform"}