Speaking at GTC Paris, staged alongside the high-profile VivaTech event, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivered a bold vision for Europe’s artificial intelligence future. He emphasized that Europe is not merely adopting artificial intelligence technology—it is actively laying the foundation for its global leadership, treating artificial intelligence as a cornerstone of what he called the new ´intelligence infrastructure.´ Highlighting an innovation surge, Huang introduced NVIDIA’s most advanced hardware—such as the GB200 NVL72, which fuses specialized reasoning, planning, and self-reflective capabilities within a vast GPU cluster. Partners are already shipping 1,000 systems weekly, and this infrastructure, he explained, will support both third-party innovation and internal ´artificial intelligence factories´ for revenue generation and local sovereignty.
Huang detailed NVIDIA’s efforts to embed its technology with European governments, telecoms, and cloud providers, further evidenced by the expansion of NVIDIA technology centers across Finland, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the UK. The region’s quantum aspirations are also gaining momentum, with the launch of NVIDIA´s CUDA-Q platform on Denmark’s Gefion supercomputer and support for hybrid classical-quantum computing. These advances are designed to accelerate breakthroughs in fields like quantum error correction and complex engineering challenges, underlining Europe’s quest for technological independence and leadership.
The keynote spotlighted NVIDIA´s response to Europe’s call for sovereignty in artificial intelligence model development. The Nemotron platform aims to empower developers to craft large language models fine-tuned for local languages and cultures. New initiatives like the NeMo Agent toolkit, Agentic AI Safety blueprint, and instant-access DGX Cloud Lepton, integrated with Hugging Face, anchor the continent’s capacity to create secure, high-performing artificial intelligence agents. This infrastructure underpins tangible industrial revolutions—NVIDIA is rolling out the world’s first industrial artificial intelligence cloud in Germany and advancing digital twins and robotics through platforms like Omniverse and DRIVE. Huang’s presentation closed with a look at exponential inference growth, specialized ´thinking machines´ like Blackwell, and the concept of artificial intelligence factories churning out the fundamental ´tokens´ of modern digital intelligence—promising a future where robotics, quantum-classical cooperation, and sovereign computation shape Europe´s economic and technological destiny.
