Jensen Huang Pushes Nvidia's AI Vision Across Europe With $10 Billion Investment Blitz
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Jensen Huang's Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers
At Nvidia's GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled their new plug-in data center -- the DSX Pod -- as the key to unlocking Europe's AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid robotics. Jensen Huang outlined his vision of Europe's future at Nvidia's global conference in Berlin on Wednesday. It
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Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision
Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all feature in Berlin keynote interrupted by environmental protesters Cute robots stole the show at Nvidia's GTC keynote in Berlin, where Jensen Huang pitched a future powered by AI agents - and, naturally, plenty of his company's hardware. The
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Nvidia must work with Chinese AI companies on safety, Jensen Huang tells CNBC
* Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the chipmaker "absolutely must" work with Chinese AI companies on monitoring risks. * Huang told CNBC AI was "potentially dangerous," adding he has ongoing "dialogs" with researchers in China. * The chip giant chief has emerged as a prominent opponent to more
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang says he would cut off customers who build unsafe AI
He called it a hypothetical, said the worry is overdone, and prescribed accelerating the containment technology his company is now hiring to build Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in London he would halt chip supply to a customer building unsafe AI, while saying the current level of concern is not
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"I am giving you money!" Nvidia's CEO wants every country to build its own AI
Why it matters: As fears of an AI bubble rattle Wall Street, Huang is working to spread the boom beyond the U.S. and China -- courting governments, bankrolling startups and cultivating massive new markets for Nvidia's chips. The big picture: The godfather of AI is trying to single-handedly build a
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urges Europe's industries to adopt AI
Nvidia introduced DSX POD, a modular AI factory design that the company says cuts deployment time to as little as 14 days Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang told European businesses in a keynote at the company's GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday that "every company in Europe will become an AI
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang wants "no incidents" of AI cybersecurity, and says AI doomers "ought to stop working on" the technology | Fortune
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the AI industry shouldn't tolerate any cybersecurity incidents caused by the technology, putting him at odds with OpenAI's Sam Altman, who has recently said that some hacks and scams may be a necessary trade-off for AI's benefits. "I'm willing to accept no incidents of
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Nvidia's Huang urges Europe to go all in on AI
Berlin (AFP) - European companies from automakers to drug firms to banks need to embrace artificial intelligence, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday, as the continent looks to capitalise on the technology even as the United States and China drive its development. Speaking at a Nvidia-hosted
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urges AI safety dialogue with China
The Nvidia CEO said the U.S. and U.K. should step up dialogue with Chinese AI researchers, calling the U.K. a possible convener Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC on Wednesday that the chipmaker should work with Chinese AI companies on monitoring the risks of AI. He spoke at a media briefing
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Nvidia CEO Encourages Europe's Lagging AI Sector and Offers Tools to Accelerate Data Center Buildout
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Europe's lagging artificial intelligence industry to get going and touted a modular system to quickly build the AI data centers with the massive computing power Europe currently lacks BERLIN (AP) -- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged players in Europe's lagging artificial
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang would cut off unsafe AI developers
Huang says a conversation would come first, and Nvidia is donating $250 million in computing time to U.K. AI safety research Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang told Bloomberg he would cut off a customer found to be building unsafe AI, even as he pushed back on what he sees as an exaggerated level of
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he would cut off customers who build unsafe AI
Nvidia is the dominant supplier of artificial intelligence accelerators, the chips used to train and run AI models. That's put it at the center of a debate over whether the software risks growing too powerful and slipping out of human control. AI executives such as Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Rejects Sam Altman's Advice to 'Accept' AI Cybersecurity Risks: 'We Should Do Eve
Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang rejected the idea that society must tolerate cybersecurity incidents as AI becomes more powerful, placing him in direct contrast with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Huang made the remarks during an interview with Fortune in London, published on Wednesday. He
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Nvidia CEO says he would stop chip supply for companies with unsafe AI By Investing.com
Investing.com -- Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said he would stop supplying chips to a customer developing unsafe AI software, though he does not believe current concerns about the technology are justified. "It's a hypothetical, but yes," Huang told Bloomberg's Emily Chang in
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang embarked on a European tour unveiling plug-in AI data centers and announcing roughly $10 billion in investments. At GTC Berlin, he pitched sovereign AI infrastructure while environmental protesters interrupted his keynote. Huang also addressed AI safety concerns, stating he would cut off customers building unsafe AI.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Unveils Modular AI Infrastructure at GTC Berlin
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered a 90-minute keynote at the company's GTC conference in Berlin, presenting a vision where Europe becomes a major AI producer rather than just a consumer
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. Speaking to 4,000 attendees at the Tempodrom venue, Huang introduced the DSX Pod, a plug-and-play modular AI data center that arrives pre-assembled in large metal containers packed with Nvidia's Vera Rubin compute racks1
. The DSX Pod can be brought online in 14 days instead of the months or years traditional AI data centers require, addressing Europe's notoriously slow infrastructure development1
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Source: France 24
The containerized datacenters combine seven liquid-cooled Vera Rubin compute racks using Nvidia's Spectrum-X networking, with partners handling cabling, integration, and testing before delivery
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. Availability is expected in early 2027, though this timeline excludes site preparation for power and connectivity2
. Huang emphasized environmental benefits, claiming that at 2 gigawatts, DSX can save 54 million liters of water daily through closed-loop liquid cooling with coolant temperatures up to 45°C and outdoor dry coolers2
.Environmental Protests and AI Safety Stance
The presentation was briefly interrupted when two Greenpeace protesters unfurled a banner reading "Clean up your dirty business," prompting Huang to tell security to "Go easy" as they were removed
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. Despite the disruption, Huang maintained his characteristic ebullience, joking with the protesters before continuing his pitch2
.On AI safety, Huang told Bloomberg in London that he would hypothetically halt chip supply to customers building unsafe AI, though he emphasized the need for dialogue first since Nvidia doesn't run other companies and its AI technology is general-purpose
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. The Nvidia CEO also told CNBC that the chipmaker "absolutely must" work with Chinese AI companies on monitoring risks around the "potentially dangerous" technology3
. Huang advocates for dialogue with Chinese researchers and believes the U.K. is positioned to convene international AI safety discussions due to its intellectual capital3
. He has emerged as a prominent opponent to AI regulation, arguing that current concerns are overdone and prescribing accelerated containment and monitoring technology—which Nvidia is now building a team to sell4
.Robotics Push and Physical AI Platforms
Huang positioned humanoid robotics as "the next great industry," arguing that Europe's manufacturing heritage makes it well-placed to lead
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. Nvidia unveiled Agile ONE SN, a humanoid robot reference platform from German startup Agile Robots based on Nvidia's Isaac GR00T technology and a Jetson Thor compute module, scheduled for early 20272
. The platform gives robotics researchers and developers a ready-made system for developing and testing capabilities2
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Source: The Register
Small two-legged Microduck robots from Pollen Robotics, a recent Nvidia acquisition Hugging Face, demonstrated on stage how AI trained in the cloud could be evaluated on an Nvidia RTX Spark PC and deployed on physical robots
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. Beyond robotics, Nvidia is pushing AI technology into autonomous vehicles and telecommunications, with Huang announcing partnerships with European carmakers VW and Mercedes1
. Europe's telecoms operators are deploying Nvidia-powered computing in their networks for AI-RAN services, with Huang boasting that "CUDA makes phone calls" after the first commercial call on T-Mobile's network with Nokia2
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Sovereign AI Strategy and $10 Billion European Investment Blitz
At the heart of Huang's global strategy is sovereign AI—the concept that every nation should build and control its own AI infrastructure, data and AI models rather than depend on U.S. or Chinese tech giants
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. Nvidia has invested roughly $10 billion in Europe over the past year, including 14 investments in European startups during Huang's current trip2
. In France, Huang announced investments in four startups and joked he's "the biggest VC in Europe," with President Emmanuel Macron welcoming him to Paris5
. In Britain, he channeled Oprah Winfrey while announcing stakes in five startups, shouting "I am giving you money!" from a converted London church stage5
. In Sweden, Huang unveiled AI supercomputers backed by the country's industrial elite, likening Nvidia's technology to a "time machine" compressing years of research into days5
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Source: Axios
Nvidia is also helping build national AI ecosystems across Saudi Arabia, South Korea, India, Malaysia and Africa
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. Forrester principal analyst Paul Miller noted that while Huang positioned Nvidia as a strong supporter of Europe's sovereign tech ambitions, anything with critical ongoing dependencies on Nvidia or any non-European firm is unlikely to meet the purest definitions of European tech sovereignty2
. In Germany, Huang challenged Chancellor Friedrich Merz to loosen Europe's regulatory instincts, warning that "there's nothing to regulate if the industry doesn't thrive"5
.Addressing AI Bubble Concerns and Future Market Expansion
Huang's European offensive comes as fears of an AI bubble rattle Wall Street, with shares and bonds of Nvidia-backed CoreWeave and other neocloud providers plunging
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. Investors are scrutinizing a circular flow of money where Nvidia helps finance the very AI companies buying its products, raising questions about demand sustainability5
. Huang has emerged as the AI industry's chief cheerleader during market turmoil, countering bubble predictions with assurances that demand is accelerating5
.The Nvidia CEO is working to spread the AI boom beyond the U.S. and China, courting governments, bankrolling startups and cultivating massive new markets for Nvidia's chips
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. His bet is that governments and institutions worldwide will want their own highly customized AI data centers running open AI models, creating a vast new class of customers including entire countries treating AI infrastructure as an economic and national security imperative5
. Huang predicted that AI agents' reasoning, iteration, and tool use are pushing token consumption and demand for computing—and Nvidia GPUs—higher, with every company in the future using both closed models and open models customized on proprietary data1
. Nvidia's $250 million commitment to UK agentic safety research will provide compute resources rather than cash, with Oxford and University College London among institutions studying safeguards for AI agents4
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