Technology giant NVIDIA has strengthened its relationships across the AI ecosystem as part of its broader strategy to move AI from experimentation into real-world deployment.
Announced at GTC 2026, the vendor has confirmed partnerships with Salesforce, AWS, and NTT Data.
The deals aim to move NVIDIA beyond being a chip provider and repositioning itself as the foundation of AI, with numerous announcements focusing on AI factories, inference, and agent platforms.
By becoming a common layer under enterprise AI, this enables system enhancements such as autonomous customer service agents, real-time decision making, and workflow automation.
NVIDIA Repositions as the Foundation of Enterprise AI
As a major theme at GTC 2026, the technology giant is prioritizing AI inference, powering chatbots, voice bots, and agent copilots so models can respond in real time.
This included announcements such as AI factory, a new platform designed to continuously produce, run, and manage AI workloads by combining multiple layers, such as infrastructure and applications.
The provider also announced its agentic AI platforms, OpenClaw and NemoClaw were expanding to integrate enterprise-grade security so businesses can deploy agents securely, arguing that "every company now needs to develop an 'OpenClaw Strategy'.”
NVIDIA also revealed that its AI chips are likely to reach at least $1 trillion in revenue by 2027, as AI moves further into daily operations and becomes the core operational layer across industries, demand will increase.
At GTC’s keynote speech, Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, expects AI costs to decrease significantly as systems become faster and more efficient.
“As all this happens, and we continue to update our software, computing costs go down,” he explained.
“The combination of accelerated computing technology drastically improves application speed. At the same time, we continue to maintain and update software throughout its entire lifecycle.
“You don't just get an initial performance boost – over time, accelerated computing continues to bring down costs.”
To ensure that it is repositioned as an underlying layer in enterprise systems, NVIDIA has recently partnered with several vendors to ensure it meets its wider strategy of becoming the foundation of AI.
Salesforce Integrates NVIDIA AI to Enhance CRM-Linked Agents
Salesforce and NVIDIA have announced a partnership this week to make AI agents usable in regulated enterprise workflows.
By integrating NVIDIA Nemotron models inside its Agentforce platform, these can process large customer histories and complex workflows, optimized for efficiency and lower costs.
As a result, AI agents can fully understand customer context across long conversations and multiple interactions.
With many AI agents in industries such as financial services and healthcare operating outside real systems, this means they cannot take effective actions for enterprises.