NVIDIA Spearheads Europe's AI Revolution with Sovereign Infrastructure and Partnerships

Nvidia calms fears and hypes Europe's impending AI future

Everything Nvidia announced at the GTC Paris keynote at VivaTech Nvidia's keynote speech at GTC Paris was big, with many announcements that make us feel for the blistered fingers of the copywriters in Nvidia's newsroom - though if it used AI to generate them, we wouldn't be surprised. Just about everything out of CEO Jensen Huang's mouth was prefaced by the term "AI" in some way or another, and no wonder: Nvidia continues to bet big on AI, and it's doing it in truly international fashion. If you missed Huang's keynote, you can find it below. What began as an evangelizing of the tokenization of computing quickly pivoted into a discussion on Nvidia's major investments and partnerships in the European theater. These are broad and comprehensive, with Nvidia announcing deals with companies in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, the UK, Sweden, and Finland, among others. It's partnering with a range of telecom companies to push the development of sovereign artificial intelligence infrastructure. Some of that is in the development of its "AI Factories" idea, with Telenor in Norway helping to build a new AI data center, and Telefónica in Spain deploying Nvidia GPUs on scale in a new edge AI initiative. Nvidia is also working with national governments to build and expand AI Technology Centers, which are designed to help train up the people who will work with future AI developments, as well as accelerate scientific research with AI in collaboration with academic institutions. "By building Europe's first industrial AI infrastructure, we're enabling the region's leading industrial companies to advance simulation-first, AI-driven manufacturing.", Huang said at the GTC Paris keynote. These announcements were backed by national figures like French President Emmanuel Macron and the UK's Technology Secretary Peter Kyle, who likened the use of AI to the adoption of coal to generate the electricity that powered the industrial revolution. In total, Nvidia claimed to be deploying over 3,000 exaflops of Blackwell computing power in its range of European initiatives. Nvidia claims this will come from over $20 billion in EU investment in AI, including over 10,000 GPUs in the form of DGX B200 systems and RTX PRO servers at a single facility in Germany alone. Huang also made a noteworthy push to frame many of these investments as building out sovereign AI solutions. This seems like a way to get ahead of concerns about an over-reliance on the US and companies like Nvidia. With the on-again, off-again trade tariffs from the Trump administration, and ongoing questions about global shipping times and technology availability, this seemed particularly poignant. More immediate in both timescale and physicality, Huang also talked about how Nvidia and its partners are using agentic AI to introduce a new generation of robots to the workplace, smart cities, and our homes. Alongside European partners showcasing their own AI-driven robots accelerated by Nvidia hardware, Huang talked about Nvidia Isaac Gr00T N1.5, a foundational model for humanoid robot reasoning and skills that's now available to download. This includes new robotics simulation frameworks, which have been optimized for Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 workstations. Again, seeming to get ahead of concerns and misgivings, Nvidia highlighted its Halos platform, a comprehensive safety system for robotic hardware. That includes an extension package for its IGX platform, which makes it easier to program safety functions into the robots, and an AI-powered agent that can monitor the robot's operations to improve its safety over time. Nvidia also talked up how its virtual training ecosystems were accelerating robotic development and training, allowing for faster iteration and innovation in this burgeoning space. Some people have been hyping up self-driving cars for over a decade, but Nvidia is confident it really is becoming more of a viable reality. To showcase that, Huang highlighted how Nvidia had won the CVPR End-to-End AV Grand Challenge for autonomous driving for the second year in a row. This year, Nvidia was able to take the top spot thanks to its development of the Generalized Trajectory Scoring for End-to-end Multimodal Planning, or GTRS. Designed to help autonomous cars handle dramatically shifting traffic conditions or sudden events that require bespoke solutions, GTRS proved effective at selecting from a wide range of potential responses. Focusing on safety, comfort, and traffic rule compliance, GTRS was able to break down what was happening and find subtle differences between it and competing scenarios to find the most appropriate response. Huang also discussed how Nvidia is furthering autonomous driving research and training by using virtual worlds to massively ramp up the amount of data it can feed its AI systems. By leveraging imaginative, synthesized scenarios, Nvidia is able to train autonomous driving algorithms on a much broader array of scenarios than real-world driving can manage alone. Much of Jensen Huang's keynote speech at GTC Paris was celebratory. Nvidia is doing big things in Europe, developing AI factories and partnering with national governments and private enterprises in equal measure at quite a staggering scale. It's getting its hardware and traditionally closed software ecosystems at the heart of some of the most exciting and potentially world-changing industries the world has seen in quite some time. But throughout his keynote, Huang also strived to calm fears over the application of AI, like its robotics initiative, built with safety at their heart, or autonomous driving, with redundant systems for critical failure scenarios. Nvidia is pitching Europe a future with itself at the heart of just about all of it.

Sovereign AI Agents Think Local, Act Global With NVIDIA AI Factories

Validated design for AI factories pairs accelerated infrastructure with software including new NVIDIA NIM microservices and an expanded suite of NVIDIA Blueprints to streamline full-stack AI development for nations and enterprises. The European Union is investing over $200 billion into AI -- but to gain the most value from this investment, its developers must navigate three key constraints: limited compute availability, data-privacy needs and safety priorities. Unveiled at the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote at VivaTech, a new suite of NVIDIA technologies is making it easier to address these challenges at every stage of the AI development and deployment cycle. Using these tools, enterprises can build scalable AI factories on premises or in the cloud to rapidly create secure, optimized sovereign AI agents. The expanded NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design delivers a turnkey solution for sovereign AI -- pairing NVIDIA Blackwell-accelerated infrastructure with a next-generation software stack. At its core is a new NIM capability that lets enterprises spin up lightning-fast inference for a variety of open large language model (LLM) architectures -- now supporting more than 100,000 public, private and domain-specialized model variants hosted on Hugging Face. Layered on top are new NVIDIA AI Blueprints and developer examples. These guide developers on how to simplify the process of creating and onboarding AI agents while ensuring robust safety, enhanced privacy and continuous improvement. With these new tools -- which include the AI-Q and data flywheel NVIDIA Blueprints, plus a blueprint for AI safety using NVIDIA NeMo -- European organizations can build, deploy and run AI factories at scale without compromising performance, control or compliance. Major enterprises across the continent are already building NVIDIA-accelerated AI factories for virtually every industry. Some of the region's largest finance companies, including BNP Paribas and Finanz Informatik, are scaling AI factories to run financial services AI agents to assist employees and customers. L'Oreal-backed startup Noli.com is working with Accenture to use its AI Refinery for its AI Beauty Matchmaker. IQVIA is building AI agents to support healthcare services. In the telecom industry, BT Group is optimizing customer service with ServiceNow and addressing anomalies in its network. Telenor is using its AI factory to run NVIDIA AI Blueprints for autonomous network configuration. Boosting AI Agent Development With Enterprise AI Factories The first step to create sovereign AI agents is model development -- often using regional or enterprise-specific data tailored to specific use cases. To train, manage and scale these models, sovereign AI developers need AI factories. On-premises sovereign AI infrastructure is especially valuable in regulated sectors such as government, finance and healthcare. The NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design helps these industries scale to support AI applications quickly with on-premises AI factories where every hardware and software layer is optimized. It features NVIDIA Blackwell accelerated computing -- including NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers -- NVIDIA networking and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to accelerate generative and agentic AI applications. Several regional software providers, including Adaptive ML, ClearML, Dataloop, Deepchecks, deepset, Domino Data Labs, EnterpriseDB, Iguazio, Quantiphi, Teradata, Weaviate and Wiz, are now integrating the validated design to help developers build and deploy enterprise AI agents at scale. The Enterprise AI Factory can also be used with software from regional partners such as aiOla, DeepL, Elastic, Photoroom, PolyAI, Qodo, Sana Labs, Tabnine and ThinkDeep. NIM Accelerates LLM Deployment Across NVIDIA Infrastructure When ready to deploy their AI models and agents, developers can tap NVIDIA NIM microservices to unlock accelerated, enterprise-ready inference across an expanding global suite of LLMs, including models tailored to specific languages and domains. NIM microservices now support a vast collection of LLMs on Hugging Face. NIM automatically optimizes the model with its ideal inference engine -- such as NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, SGLang or vLLM -- so that, with a few simple commands, users can rapidly deploy their preferred LLMs for high-performance AI inference on any NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure. "NIM makes it easy to deploy a broad range of LLMs from Hugging Face on NVIDIA GPUs," said Jeff Boudier, vice president of product at Hugging Face. "With support for over 100,000 public and private LLMs hosted on the Hugging Face Hub, NIM makes the performance and diversity of open models available to enterprise AI agents." Enterprise model builders and software development tool creators AI21 Labs, Dream Security, IBM and JetBrains, as well as European research and innovation organizations Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Bielik.AI and UTTER are among those contributing specialized LLMs now available as NIM microservices. These optimized models support 35 regional languages, including Arabic, Czech, Dutch, German, Hebrew, French, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish -- expanding options for developers building AI agents with local language and cultural understanding. NVIDIA is also working with several model builders and AI consortiums in Europe to optimize local models with NVIDIA Nemotron techniques. Blueprints for Smarter, Safer AI Agents To give developers a head start on building and onboarding powerful, secure AI models and agents, NVIDIA offers easy-to-follow blueprints and developer examples. These reference designs will enable Europe's developers to tailor their models and agents to regional needs by connecting them to proprietary data, applying safety policies and continuously updating them for optimized performance. The AI-Q NVIDIA Blueprint provides a guide for developing agentic systems capable of fast multimodal data extraction and powerful information retrieval. It includes the NVIDIA NeMo Agent toolkit, an open-source software library for evaluating and optimizing AI agents. The NeMo Agent toolkit brings intelligence to agentic AI workflows and is compatible with the open standards including Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source framework for connecting AI agents to tools. This integration enables interoperability with tools served by MCP servers. The NeMo Agent toolkit is also integrated with agent frameworks, including CrewAI, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Microsoft Semantic Kernel and Weights & Biases. The AI-Q blueprint offers a foundation for enterprises to build domain-specific AI agents that can use a wide range of enterprise data sources to deliver insights contextualized to an organization's specific needs. NVIDIA partners including DDN, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, NetApp, Nutanix, Pure Storage, VAST Data and WEKA use AI-Q to connect their data platforms to AI agents. The NVIDIA AI Blueprint for building data flywheels enables enterprises to improve their AI agents over time. It includes tools to turn inference data into new training and evaluation datasets -- and tools to automatically surface optimized models while maintaining high accuracy. Built on NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the blueprint pulls in production traffic and user feedback and triggers retraining and redeployment pipelines, creating a continuous feedback loop to enhance model performance. Powered by modular NVIDIA NeMo microservices, it offers flexible deployment options that run on any accelerated computing infrastructure, whether on premises or in the cloud. The blueprint evaluates existing and new candidate models to help developers identify and deploy smaller, faster models that match or surpass the accuracy of larger ones. With this tool, enterprises can pick models that increase compute efficiency and decrease the total cost of ownership, enabling leaner, more cost-effective AI. NVIDIA partners VAST Data, Weights & Biases and Iguazio -- an AI platform company acquired by QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey -- are building on the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for data flywheels to integrate additional features, such as advanced monitoring capabilities, based on their software platforms. To help enterprises safely adopt open-source models, the Agentic AI Safety blueprint is slated to offer a framework for evaluating and enhancing model safety across content, security and privacy dimensions. It guides developers through NVIDIA-curated datasets and standardized evaluation tools to prepare models for production with post-training. The recipe also provides actionable safety and vulnerability metrics -- covering jailbreaks, prompt injections and harmful content -- enabling enterprises to accelerate deployment without compromising compliance or trust. Enterprises Set to Integrate New NVIDIA Software Global enterprises -- including ActiveFence, Amdocs, Cisco, Cloudera, CrowdStrike, IBM, IQVIA, SAP, ServiceNow and Trend Micro -- are adopting NVIDIA NIM microservices and blueprints to accelerate AI workflows in cybersecurity, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications and more. Amdocs, a leading provider of software and services for communications and media providers, uses NVIDIA AI Enterprise -- including NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA NIM microservices -- as part of Amdocs' amAIz suite of AI products and services. The company has used the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for building data flywheels in an LLMOps pipeline to enable efficient LLM fine-tuning. Amdocs plans to integrate more NIM microservices to support AI agents for content creation, translation, network automation and customer service. Global system integrators like Capgemini, Accenture, Deloitte, EY, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro are helping enterprises build their AI factories with full-stack NVIDIA software.

France Bolsters National AI Strategy With NVIDIA Infrastructure

AI-native companies, researchers and enterprises are driving development across industries and higher education using NVIDIA software and accelerated computing. AI's in fashion in France -- as it is across the globe -- with the technology already helping solve some of the country's greatest challenges across research and innovation, transportation, manufacturing and many other industries. And this fashion's here to stay. France's National Strategy for AI, part of the broader France 2030 investment plan, includes more than €109 billion in investments for the country's AI infrastructure projects. Such projects include a collaboration between NVIDIA and Mistral AI, an independent generative AI pioneer headquartered in France, to build a cutting-edge, end-to-end compute platform that answers the comprehensive compute infrastructure needs of enterprise customers. Plus, a slew of the nation's AI-native companies, startups and research centers are innovating with NVIDIA AI infrastructure. These leading innovators are using the latest agentic and industrial AI technologies to bolster and accelerate work in areas ranging from advertising for skincare and beauty, spearheaded by L'Oréal and Accenture, to transportation and the electric grid. With its decarbonized, abundant electricity supply, expanding high-voltage electric grid and more than 30 ready-to-use, low-carbon AI sites throughout the country, France is poised to become one of the world's greenest leaders in artificial intelligence. Below are some of the key players making AI development the nation's hottest trend. Mistral AI's new compute platform will feature the latest-generation NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems, with 18,000 Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra GPUs planned for deployment in the initial phase and additional plans to expand across multiple sites in 2026. The infrastructure will host Mistral AI's cloud application service, which customers can use to develop and run AI applications with Mistral AI's and other providers' open-source models. Mistral AI and NVIDIA are optimizing inference performance for several Mistral models with NVIDIA NIM microservices, including the new Mistral Nemotron model, exclusively available with the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. "We are forging Europe's AI future in partnership with NVIDIA, combining strategic autonomy with our expertise in AI and NVIDIA's most advanced technology," said Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI. "This new infrastructure will provide enterprises and the public sector with Mistral's AI expertise in building the best compute for AI, ensuring full control to businesses." In addition, Mistral AI and NVIDIA are collaborating with Bpifrance, the French national investment bank, and MGX, the UAE's investment fund focused on AI and advanced technology, to establish Europe's largest AI campus -- to be located in the Paris region and expected to reach a capacity of 1.4 gigawatts. The campus will feature advanced NVIDIA compute infrastructure to support the full AI lifecycle, from model training and inference to deployment of generative and applied AI systems. France-founded European cloud service provider Scaleway offers the European cloud's largest compute capacity, powered by more than a thousand NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, with plans to offer NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs -- which enable building and running real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models at up to 25x less cost and energy consumption than its predecessor. As a European provider, Scaleway provides domestic infrastructure that ensures access and compliance with EU data protection laws -- critical to businesses with a European footprint. Mistral AI and Scaleway plan to participate in the DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace to provide startups and developers access to compute infrastructure. Orange Business, the enterprise division of Orange, one of Europe's leading telco operators, has joined the NVIDIA Cloud Partner program to accelerate the development of enterprise-grade agentic AI, including its innovative Live Intelligence platform, which empowers companies of all sizes to securely deploy generative AI at scale. Those AI solutions tap into the Orange Business Cloud Avenue platform, built on high-performance NVIDIA infrastructure. Paris-based beauty company L'Oréal Groupe's generative AI content platform CREAITECH uses the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform to develop and deploy 3D digital renderings of L'Oréal's products for faster, more creative development of marketing and advertising campaigns. Eighty percent of L'Oréal's production in France is exported globally, helping make cosmetics the third-largest contributor to national economic growth. Learn more about how L'Oréal and other leading retailers are using NVIDIA technologies to redefine their operations. The France public sector uses NVIDIA technologies for use cases ranging from transportation and public safety in cities to cybersecurity in schools and better fraud detection at the French Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, which oversees national funds and the economic system. Local governments have deployed solutions in generative and vision AI, document analytics and more through NVIDIA partners Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, LightOn, SCC, ThinkDeep, XXII and others. France's national rail operator SNCF Gares&Connexions, which operates internationally and has a network of 3,000 train stations across France and Monaco, is developing digital twins to simulate railway scenarios. Powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, Metropolis and ecosystem partners Akila and XXII, SNCF Gares&Connexions' AI deployment, including at the Monaco-Monte-Carlo station, has helped SNCF Gares&Connexions achieve a 100% on-time preventive maintenance completion rate, a 50% reduction in downtime and issue response time, as well as a 20% reduction in energy consumption. Schneider Electric -- a French multinational company driving the digital transformation of energy management and automation -- has introduced publicly available engineered reference designs for optimizing performance, scalability and energy efficiency of NVIDIA-powered AI data centers. In addition, AVEVA, a subsidiary of Schneider Electric, is connecting its digital twin platform to NVIDIA Omniverse to deliver a unified virtual simulation and collaboration environment for designing and deploying optimized data centers. Electricité de France, commonly known as EDF, the French national electricity company, has partnered with NVIDIA to transition its open-source code_saturne computational fluid dynamics (CFD) application, developed by EDF R&D, onto accelerated computing platforms for improved performance in power and industrial applications. This collaboration, which also involves NVIDIA developer partner ANEO, taps into NVIDIA Nsight tools to iteratively adapt the CFD code for optimized GPU operation. To accelerate France's AI-driven transformation, NVIDIA is partnering with the country's leading model builders and AI-native companies to support large language models in various languages including Arabic, French, English, Italian, German, Polish, Spanish and Swedish. H Company and LightOn are tailoring and optimizing their models with NVIDIA Nemotron techniques to maximize cost efficiency and accuracy for enterprise AI workloads including agentic AI. Plus, a new Hugging Face integration with DGX Cloud Lepton will let companies fine-tune their AI models on local NCP infrastructure. France has a rich ecosystem of more than 1,000 AI startups pursuing breakthroughs in healthcare, quantum computing and more. Alice & Bob, a member of the NVIDIA Inception program for cutting-edge startups, is building quantum computing hardware and has integrated the NVIDIA CUDA-Q hybrid computing platform into its quantum simulation library, called Dynamiqs. This allows the company to accelerate its qubit design process with GPUs. Adding NVIDIA acceleration on top of Dynamiqs' advanced optimization capabilities can increase the efficiency of these challenging qubit-design simulations by up to 75x. Quandela, a leader in full-stack photonic quantum computing, has announced MerLin, a quantum machine learning programming framework that uses NVIDIA CUDA-Q to deliver high-performance simulations for photonic quantum circuits. This enables developers to build new models and assess the performance of candidate algorithms on simulations of larger quantum processors. Moon Surgical, a robotic surgery company and also an NVIDIA Inception member, is using the NVIDIA Holoscan and IGX platforms to power its Maestro System for minimally invasive surgery, a technique where surgeons operate through small incisions with an internal camera and instruments. Moon Surgical and NVIDIA are also collaborating to bring generative AI features to the operating room using Maestro and Holoscan. As the country with the world's third largest number of AI researchers, France supports a vast spectrum of projects and centers advancing supercomputing, AI education and other initiatives to make the future of technology possible. The Jean Zay supercomputer, operated by IDRIS, a national computing centre for the CNRS (France's National Centre for Scientific Research), is a French AI flagship serving research academia and startups users. Built by Eviden and powered by NVIDIA, the supercomputer accelerates the work of university and public sector researchers, developers and data scientists across France. Acquired by the French government through intermediary French civil company GENCI, the supercomputer integrates NVIDIA accelerated computing, including more than a thousand NVIDIA Hopper GPUs. It supports more than 150 startups -- including Hugging Face, Mistral AI, H Company and LightOn -- and powered 1,400+ AI projects in 2024. Jean Zay is among the most eco-efficient machines in Europe, thanks to the accelerated technologies and core warm-water cooling of the computing servers. In addition, the supercomputer's waste heat is reused to help heat more than 1,500 homes in the Saclay area, to the southwest of Paris.

NVIDIA CEO Drops the Blueprint for Europe's AI Boom

In Paris, Jensen Huang laid out how the continent is scaling up with Blackwell-powered factories, agentic AI, and sovereign clouds -- all part of Europe's new intelligence infrastructure. At GTC Paris -- held alongside VivaTech, Europe's largest tech event -- NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivered a clear message: Europe isn't just adopting AI -- it's building it. "We now have a new industry, an AI industry, and it's now part of the new infrastructure, called intelligence infrastructure, that will be used by every country, every society," Huang said, addressing an audience gathered online and at the iconic Dôme de Paris. From exponential inference growth to quantum breakthroughs, and from infrastructure to industry, agentic AI to robotics, Huang outlined how the region is laying the groundwork for an AI-powered future. A New Industrial Revolution At the heart of this transformation, Huang explained, are systems like GB200 NVL72 -- "one giant GPU" and NVIDIA's most powerful AI platform yet -- now in full production and powering everything from sovereign models to quantum computing. "This machine was designed to be a thinking machine, a thinking machine, in the sense that it reasons, it plans, it spends a lot of time talking to itself," Huang said, walking the audience through the size and scale of these machines and their performance. There's more coming, with Huang saying NVIDIA's partners are now producing 1,000 GB200 systems a week, "and this is just the beginning," walking the audience through a range of available systems ranging from the tiny DGX Spark to rack-mounted RTX PRO Servers. Huang explained that NVIDIA is working to help countries use technologies like these to build both AI infrastructure -- services built for third parties to use and innovate on -- and AI factories, which companies build for their own use, to generate revenue. NVIDIA is partnering with European governments, telcos and cloud providers to deploy NVIDIA technologies across the region. NVIDIA is also expanding its network of technology centers across Europe -- including new hubs in Finland, Germany, Spain, Italy and the U.K. -- to accelerate skills development and quantum growth. The NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform is live on Denmark's Gefion supercomputer, opening new possibilities for hybrid AI and quantum engineering, and Huang announced that CUDA-Q is now available on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems. Across the continent, NVIDIA is partnering with supercomputing centers and quantum hardware builders to advance hybrid quantum-AI research and accelerate quantum error correction, Huang said. "Quantum computing is reaching an inflection point," Huang said. "We are within reach of being able to apply quantum computing, quantum classical computing, in areas that can solve some interesting problems in the coming years." Sovereign Models, Smarter Agents European developers want more control over their models. Enter NVIDIA Nemotron, designed to help build large language models tuned to local needs. "And so now you know that you have access to an enhanced open model that is still open, that is top of the leader chart," Huang said. These models will be coming to Perplexity, a reasoning search engine, enabling secure, multilingual AI deployment across Europe. "You can now ask and get questions answered in the language, in the culture, in the sensibility of your country," Huang said. More's coming. Every company will build its own agents, Huang said. To help create those agents, Huang introduced a suite of agentic AI blueprints, including an Agentic AI Safety blueprint for enterprises and governments. The new NVIDIA NeMo Agent toolkit and NVIDIA AI Blueprint for building data flywheels further accelerate the development of safe, high-performing AI agents. To help deploy these agents, NVIDIA is partnering with European governments, telcos and cloud providers to deploy the DGX Cloud Lepton platform across the region, providing instant access to accelerated computing capacity. "One model architecture, one deployment, and you can run it anywhere," Huang said, adding that Lepton is now integrated with Hugging Face, giving developers direct access to global compute. The Industrial Cloud Goes Live AI isn't just virtual. It's powering physical systems, too, sparking a "new industrial revolution." "We're working on industrial AI with one company after another," Huang said, describing work to build digital twins based on NVIDIA Omniverse with companies across the continent. To further this work, Huang announced NVIDIA is launching the world's first industrial AI cloud -- to be built in Germany -- to help Europe's manufacturers simulate, automate and optimize at scale. More's coming. "Soon, everything that moves will be robotic," Huang said. "And the car is the next one." NVIDIA DRIVE, NVIDIA's full-stack AV platform, is now in production to accelerate the large-scale deployment of safe, intelligent transportation. And to show what's coming next, Huang was joined on stage by Grek, a pint-sized robot, as Huang talked about how NVIDIA partnered with DeepMind and Disney to build Newton, the world's most advanced physics training engine for robotics. The Next Wave The next wave of AI has begun -- and it's exponential, Huang explained. "We have physical robots, and we have information robots. We call them agents," Huang said. "The technology necessary to teach a robot to manipulate, to simulate -- and of course, the manifestation of an incredible robot -- is now right in front of us." This new era of AI is being driven by a surge in inference workloads. "The number of people using inference has gone from 8 million to 800 million -- 100 times in just a couple of years," Huang said. To meet this demand, Huang emphasized the need for a new kind of computer: "We need a special computer designed for thinking, designed for reasoning. And that's what Blackwell is -- a thinking machine." These Blackwell-powered systems will live in a new class of data centers -- AI factories -- built to generate tokens, the raw material of modern intelligence. "These AI factories are going to generate tokens," Huang said, turning to Grek with a smile. "And these tokens are going to become your food, little Grek." With that, the keynote closed on a bold vision: a future powered by sovereign infrastructure, agentic AI, robotics -- and exponential inference -- all built in partnership with Europe.

Leading European Telcos Build AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA for Regional Enterprises

Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor scale secure, sustainable AI infrastructure, enabling European enterprises to adopt and build agentic AI applications. AI factories are producing intelligence at unprecedented scale, showing massive potential to fuel economic growth and innovation. But to tap that intelligence, countries need secure, sovereign AI infrastructure. As trusted providers of critical connectivity infrastructure, forming the backbone of the modern digital world, telecommunications providers are uniquely positioned to deliver AI services due to their extensive infrastructure and geographic reach. Eighteen telco-led AI factories powered by NVIDIA now span five continents. At NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech, NVIDIA today announced collaborations with leading telecommunications companies Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor to develop and expand sovereign AI factories and edge infrastructure across Europe. This will equip European enterprises across industries with secure, accelerated computing infrastructure to train and deploy customized AI models and agentic AI services. NVIDIA's full-stack technologies allow telco operators to go beyond traditional connectivity services to AI as a service, driving generative and agentic AI adoption and empowering entire nations to build localized models with secure sovereign AI infrastructure. Orange Business Enables Trusted AI Solutions in Europe Orange Business, the enterprise division of the Orange Group, one of Europe's leading telco operators, has joined the NVIDIA Cloud Partner program to accelerate the development of enterprise-grade agentic AI, including its innovative Live Intelligence platform, which empowers companies of all sizes to securely deploy generative AI at scale. Those AI solutions tap into Orange Business Cloud Avenue platform, built on high-performance NVIDIA infrastructure. This will allow enterprises across Europe to access AI infrastructure, train custom AI models and deploy secure generative AI applications through Orange Business' Live Intelligence platform -- as well as introduce new revenue streams for telcos, transforming employee, customer and operational experiences. Orange has also applied AI to its own operations, with 73,000 employees now regularly using the solution to streamline tasks, develop software, automate support procedures and enhance decision-making. These cases will benefit from Orange's sovereign AI infrastructure -- supporting employees in France, as well as across Europe and Africa, and handling over 30,000 requests daily. Telenor Pioneers Secure and Sustainable AI for Norway Building on its creation of Norway's first sovereign AI infrastructure, Telenor today announced it is significantly expanding capacity to meet rising demand from both internal teams and external customers. With plans to add a new AI data center that will run entirely on renewable energy and contribute surplus energy back to the grid, Telenor is helping Norway advance its mission of secure, sovereign and sustainable AI development. Since its launch, Telenor's AI infrastructure has helped drive AI adoption across Norway by powering digital services for the public sector, industrial automation and local language models. This includes hosting BabelSpeak, an AI-driven translation tool developed by Capgemini that offers near-real-time, voice-to-voice multilingual translation capabilities in nearly 100 languages and is now being piloted by Norwegian Red Cross. Capgemini has been a key partner for Telenor to build Norway's first sovereign and secure AI cloud service in collaboration with NVIDIA. In addition, Telenor is integrating NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to accelerate enterprise adoption and deployment of generative and agentic AI applications, as well as its own internal innovation efforts, such as in network automation. "Telenor is leading the way in AI adoption in the telecom industry, pioneering innovation in nearly every aspect of the business," said Cathal Kennedy, acting group chief technology officer of Telenor. "By combining robust infrastructure with advanced AI capabilities, we're setting new standards for efficiency and sustainability, and ensuring production of intelligence remains in Norway." Swiss AI Platform Powers Enterprises Swisscom recently announced GenAI Studio -- a new service built on its Swiss AI Platform that allows enterprises to develop and run AI agents quickly and securely. The company also launched the AI Work Hub and Model catalog, enabling enterprises across Switzerland to build complex AI projects, customize models and deploy agentic AI at scale and speed. The new enterprise AI services are hosted on Swisscom's sovereign AI factory, built on NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD. This allows for fast and easy scaling of capacity to serve Switzerland's rapidly growing demand for AI services and inference, expanding the company's revenue opportunities. Telefónica Empowers Spanish Enterprises at the Edge Telefónica is piloting distributed edge AI infrastructure across Spain to bring advanced computing closer to where data's generated and where local AI inference is needed. The company will be deploying hundreds of NVIDIA GPUs as part of its edge AI fabric. This will help ensure that AI services are delivered with low latency, reliability and strong privacy protections, and that trusted information stays within national borders. The edge AI solution incorporates NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and NVIDIA NIM microservices, enabling secure, scalable and enterprise-grade AI applications for key sectors such as government and financial services. Fastweb Innovates for Italy With New Language Model Fastweb built MIIA -- one of the first Italian language models to support generative AI applications -- trained and running on its NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputer. Watch the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote from NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang at VivaTech, and explore the GTC Paris telecom special address and industry panel with Orange, Swisscom and Telenor.

Europe Builds AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA to Fuel Region's Next Industrial Transformation

NVIDIA Establishes AI Technology Centers Across Continent to Advance Research, Upskill Workforces and Accelerate Scientific Breakthroughs NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech -- NVIDIA today announced it is working with European nations, and technology and industry leaders, to build NVIDIA Blackwell AI infrastructure that will strengthen digital sovereignty, support economic growth and position the continent as a leader in the AI industrial revolution. France, Italy, Spain and the U.K. are among the nations building domestic AI infrastructure with an ecosystem of technology and cloud providers, including Domyn, Mistral AI, Nebius and Nscale, and telecommunications providers, including Orange, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor. These deployments will deliver more than 3,000 exaflops of NVIDIA Blackwell compute resources for sovereign AI, enabling European enterprises, startups and public sector organizations to securely develop, train and deploy agentic and physical AI applications. NVIDIA is establishing and expanding AI technology centers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the U.K. and Finland. These centers build on NVIDIA's history of collaborating with academic institutions and industry through the NVIDIA AI Technology Center program and NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute to develop the AI workforce and scientific discovery throughout the regions. "Every industrial revolution begins with infrastructure. AI is the essential infrastructure of our time, just as electricity and the internet once were," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "With bold leadership from Europe's governments and industries, AI will drive transformative innovation and prosperity for generations to come." "France is committed to investing in AI to strengthen our economy, benefit our citizens and uphold our values," said Emmanuel Macron, president of the French Republic. "By working closely with our nation's leading technology innovators and NVIDIA, we are equipping researchers, entrepreneurs and public institutions with the tools they need to explore new ideas, tackle complex challenges and help shape the future of AI for France." "Just as coal and electricity once defined our past, AI is defining our future," said U.K. Tech Secretary Peter Kyle. "NVIDIA's expansion of its technology center here in the U.K. will be vital in helping us to deliver on our AI ambitions, and their partnership in building the capabilities that will transform our AI Growth Zones into engines of opportunity. This is our Plan for Change in action, bringing together leading innovators to build the compute infrastructure that will drive growth across every region and secure the U.K.'s place as a global AI leader in the age of AI." "This agreement represents a strategic step toward strengthening Italy's technological sovereignty and ensuring that our businesses have secure and competitive access to data management," said Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso. "The collaboration with top-tier partners such as NVIDIA and Domyn confirms the government's commitment in supporting high-level alliances to foster innovation and the competitiveness of the national production system." Building Europe's Foundation for AI Infrastructure and Innovation Building AI infrastructure requires strategic investment in advanced systems, land and facilities, sustainable energy access, skilled experts and partnerships. To accelerate the development of these national resources, NVIDIA is working with leaders across France, the U.K., Germany and Italy. In France, Mistral AI is working with NVIDIA to build an end-to-end cloud platform powered by 18,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems in the first phase, with plans to expand across multiple sites in 2026. This infrastructure will enable organizations across Europe to quickly develop and deploy AI using optimized Mistral AI models and validated AI factory designs, accelerating the adoption of agentic AI applications. In the U.K., NVIDIA is collaborating with NVIDIA Cloud Partners Nebius and Nscale to unlock advanced AI capabilities for enterprises and businesses of all sizes. At London Tech Week, the cloud providers announced the first phase of their AI infrastructure development plans to deploy 14,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to power new data centers, making scalable, secure AI infrastructure widely accessible across the U.K. In Germany, NVIDIA and its partners are building the world's first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers. This AI factory will be powered by NVIDIA DGX™ B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO™ Servers featuring 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to enable Europe's industrial leaders to accelerate every manufacturing application, from design, engineering and simulation to factory digital twins and robotics. In Italy, NVIDIA is working with Domyn and the government to advance the nation's sovereign AI capabilities. Domyn is developing its Domyn Large Colosseum reasoning model on its supercomputer, Colosseum, with NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips, in alignment with its mission to support regulated industries in adopting AI. European Telcos Build AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA for Regional Enterprises NVIDIA is also working with leading European telecommunications providers -- including Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor -- to develop secure, scalable sovereign AI infrastructure across the region. These collaborations enable enterprises to develop and deploy customized AI models and agentic applications at scale, tapping into telcos' extensive networks and trusted role as critical infrastructure providers. NVIDIA AI Technology Centers Fuel Research, Upskilling and Scientific Progress NVIDIA is establishing and expanding technology centers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the U.K. and Finland to accelerate AI skills development, research and infrastructure for the continent's enterprises and startups. These strategic initiatives across Europe build on NVIDIA investments in building AI infrastructure worldwide, including in Taiwan and the Middle East.

Nvidia expands AI infrastructure reach in major push across Europe

AI centers will further research and offer training opportunities Nvidia has announced significant new plans to support European customers as the region looks to bolster sovereignty requirements amid ongoing global trade concern The chipmaker has revealed France, Italy, Spain and the UK are all deploying Nvidia Blackwell systems to build their own sovereign AI infrastructure, and it has also pledged to build an AI factory in Germany for industrial manufacturing applications, together with further AI technology centers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the UK and Finland. Nvidia's expansion across Europe comes amid partnerships with a number of European firms, including Mistral AI, Orange, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor. Though confirmed in an Nvidia press release, many of the infrastructure expansions rely on local partnerships. Mistral AI will deploy 18,000 Grace Blackwell systems in France, Nebius and Nscale will roll out 14,000 Blackwell GPUs via new data centers in the UK, Germany will launch the world's first industrial AI cloud with 10,000 Blackwell GPUs and Italy is to develop the "Large Colosseum" reasoning model on Grace Blackwell Superchips. Further partnerships with European telecommunication companies will see Orange, Fastweb, Telenor, Swisscom and Telefónica launch their own AI models and tools. "Every industrial revolution begins with infrastructure. AI is the essential infrastructure of our time, just as electricity and the internet once were," CEO Jensen Huang explained. UK Tech Secretary Peter Kyle expanded on Huang's notion: "Just as coal and electricity once defined our past, AI is defining our future." A series of AI centers are also to be established across many European countries, including Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the UK and Finland, with the aim of accelerating AI research and offering local upskilling options. "With bold leadership from Europe's governments and industries, AI will drive transformative innovation and prosperity for generations to come," Huang added. The news follows Huang's recent appearance at London Tech Week 2025, where he joined UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on stage to announce new expansions in the country, and hail the impact of AI investment.

Nvidia Expands In Europe With AI Factory, Cloud Push - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Nvidia Corp NVDA announced on Wednesday multiple collaborations with European countries and companies, spanning infrastructure to software. CEO Jensen Huang's Europe tour included a keynote at Nvidia's GTC event in Paris. Nvidia announced it is building the world's first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers. Also Read: Nvidia's Generative AI To Fuel Hyper-Scalable 3D Rendering For L'Oréal This Germany-based AI factory will feature 10,000 GPUs, including through Nvidia DGX B200 systems and Nvidia RTX PRO Servers, and enable Europe's industrial leaders to accelerate every manufacturing application. In addition, Nvidia announced that European manufacturers, including BMW Group, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, and Schaeffler, are transforming their end-to-end product lifecycles from simulated product design and factory planning to AI-driven operations and logistics by running Nvidia-accelerated applications from software companies like Ansys, Cadence, and Siemens. Software vendors like Ansys, Cadence, and Siemens are accelerating their product portfolios using Nvidia AI-physics technologies, Nvidia CUDA-X libraries, Nvidia Grace Blackwell systems, and the Nvidia Omniverse platform. Nvidia announced the expansion of Nvidia DGX Cloud Lepton, an AI platform featuring a global compute marketplace that connects developers building agentic and physical AI applications with GPUs now available from a growing network of cloud providers. Mistral AI, Nebius, Nscale, Firebird, Fluidstack, Hydra Host, Scaleway, and Together AI are now contributing Nvidia Blackwell and other Nvidia architecture GPUs to the marketplace, expanding regional access to high-performance computing. Amazon.Com Inc AMZN AWS and Microsoft Corp MSFT Azure will be the first large-scale cloud providers to participate in DGX Cloud Lepton. To make accelerated computing more accessible to the global AI community, Hugging Face is introducing Training Cluster as a Service. Nvidia is also working with leading European venture capital firms Accel, Elaia, Partech, and Sofinnova Partners to offer portfolio companies DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace credits. Nvidia announced it would collaborate with model builders and cloud providers across Europe and the Middle East to optimize sovereign large language models (LLMs). Model builders and AI consortiums like Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) are teaming with Nvidia to optimize their models with Nvidia Nemotron techniques to maximize cost efficiency and accuracy for enterprise AI workloads, including agentic AI. Model post-training and inference will run on AI infrastructure in Europe from Nvidia Cloud Partners (NCPs) participating in the Nvidia DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace. Companies can also fine-tune the sovereign models on local NCP infrastructure through a new Hugging Face integration with DGX Cloud Lepton. Nvidia announced a collaboration with European nations and technology and industry leaders to build Nvidia Blackwell AI infrastructure. France, Italy, Spain, and the UK are among the nations building domestic AI infrastructure. This infrastructure includes an ecosystem of technology and cloud providers, including Domyn, Mistral AI, Nebius, and Nscale, and telecommunications providers, including Orange, Swisscom, Telefónica, and Telenor. Nvidia is establishing and expanding AI technology centers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the UK, and Finland. Nvidia on Tuesday announced that the JUPITER supercomputer, powered by the Nvidia Grace Hopper platform, is the fastest in Europe. Supercomputers gained traction for their ability to tackle complex, computationally intensive tasks beyond conventional computers. Price Action: Nvidia stock is trading higher by 0.02% to $143.91 at last check Wednesday. Read Next: Supermicro Teams Up With Nvidia To Supercharge Europe's AI Factories With Powerful Server Solutions Photo: Shutterstock NVDANVIDIA Corp$143.88-0.05%Stock Score Locked: Want to See it? Benzinga Rankings give you vital metrics on any stock - anytime. Reveal Full ScoreEdge RankingsMomentum76.16Growth98.64QualityNot AvailableValue7.00Price TrendShortMediumLongOverviewAMZNAmazon.com Inc$217.45-0.07%MSFTMicrosoft Corp$473.130.47%Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs

Europe Builds AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA to Fuel Region's Next Industrial Transformation

, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- -- NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech -- today announced it is working with European nations, and technology and industry leaders, to build Blackwell AI infrastructure that will strengthen digital sovereignty, support economic growth and position the continent as a leader in the AI industrial revolution. , , and the are among the nations building domestic AI infrastructure with an ecosystem of technology and cloud providers, including Domyn, , Nebius and Nscale, and telecommunications providers, including Orange, Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor. These deployments will deliver more than 3,000 exaflops of Blackwell compute resources for sovereign AI, enabling European enterprises, startups and public sector organizations to securely develop, train and deploy agentic and physical AI applications. is establishing and expanding AI technology centers in , , , , the and . These centers build on NVIDIA's history of collaborating with academic institutions and industry through the program and to develop the AI workforce and scientific discovery throughout the regions. "Every industrial revolution begins with infrastructure. AI is the essential infrastructure of our time, just as electricity and the internet once were," said , founder and CEO of . "With bold leadership from Europe's governments and industries, AI will drive transformative innovation and prosperity for generations to come." "France is committed to investing in AI to strengthen our economy, benefit our citizens and uphold our values," said , president of the . "By working closely with our nation's leading technology innovators and , we are equipping researchers, entrepreneurs and public institutions with the tools they need to explore new ideas, tackle complex challenges and help shape the future of AI for France." "Just as coal and electricity once defined our past, AI is defining our future," said Tech Secretary . "NVIDIA's expansion of its technology center here in the will be vital in helping us to deliver on our AI ambitions, and their partnership in building the capabilities that will transform our AI Growth Zones into engines of opportunity. This is our Plan for Change in action, bringing together leading innovators to build the compute infrastructure that will drive growth across every region and secure the U.K.'s place as a global AI leader in the age of AI." "This agreement represents a strategic step toward strengthening Italy's technological sovereignty and ensuring that our businesses have secure and competitive access to data management," said Minister of Enterprise and Made in . "The collaboration with top-tier partners such as and Domyn confirms the government's commitment in supporting high-level alliances to foster innovation and the competitiveness of the national production system." Building Europe's Building AI infrastructure requires strategic investment in advanced systems, land and facilities, sustainable energy access, skilled experts and partnerships. To accelerate the development of these national resources, is working with leaders across , the , and . In , is working with to build an end-to-end cloud platform powered by 18,000 Grace Blackwell systems in the first phase, with plans to expand across multiple sites in 2026. This infrastructure will enable organizations across to quickly develop and deploy AI using optimized models and validated AI factory designs, accelerating the adoption of agentic AI applications. In the , is collaborating with Nebius and Nscale to unlock advanced AI capabilities for enterprises and businesses of all sizes. At London Tech Week, the cloud providers announced the first phase of their AI infrastructure development plans to deploy 14,000 Blackwell GPUs to power new data centers, making scalable, secure AI infrastructure widely accessible across the In , and its partners are building the world's first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers. This AI factory will be powered by DGX™ B200 systems and RTX PRO™ Servers featuring 10,000 Blackwell GPUs to enable Europe's industrial leaders to accelerate every manufacturing application, from design, engineering and simulation to factory digital twins and robotics. In , is working with Domyn and the government to advance the nation's sovereign AI capabilities. Domyn is developing its Domyn Large Colosseum reasoning model on its supercomputer, Colosseum, with Grace Blackwell Superchips, in alignment with its mission to support regulated industries in adopting AI. European Telcos Build AI Infrastructure With for is also working with leading European telecommunications providers -- including Orange, , Swisscom, Telefónica and Telenor -- to develop secure, scalable sovereign AI infrastructure across the region. These collaborations enable enterprises to develop and deploy customized AI models and agentic applications at scale, tapping into telcos' extensive networks and trusted role as critical infrastructure providers. 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