NVIDIA Blackwell: Born for Extreme-Scale AI Inference
NVIDIA, September 18,2025
The NVIDIA Blackwell architecture is the reigning leader of the AI revolution. Many think of Blackwell as a chip, but it may be better to think of it as a platform powering large-scale AI infrastructure.
Blackwell is the core of an entire system architecture designed specifically to power AI factories that produce intelligence using the largest and most complex AI models.
Today's frontier AI models have hundreds of billions of parameters and are estimated to serve nearly a billion users per week. The next generation of models are expected to have well over a trillion parameters - and are being trained on tens of trillions of tokens of data drawn from text, image and video datasets.
Scaling out a data center - harnessing up to thousands of computers to share the work - is necessary to meet this demand. But far greater performance and energy efficiency can come from first scaling up: by making a bigger computer.
Blackwell redefines the limits of just how big we can go.