Germany and NVIDIA's European AI partnership

NVIDIA published details on European public sector AI projects involving Poland, Germany, and France using NVIDIA open models.

At his GTC Berlin keynote, held after signing the industrial AI declaration with Chancellor Merz, Huang said NVIDIA works with more than 12,000 partners across Europe and named L'Oréal, Revolut, Spotify, Merck, Vodafone, Zara, Porsche, Nestlé, and HSBC as active collaborators.

Huang also argued that Europe should produce AI rather than only consume it, framing AI as a five-layer stack spanning energy, computers, AI factory, models, and applications.

German Chancellor Merz and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang signed a Joint Declaration of Intent in Berlin to build an industrial AI ecosystem in Europe, with NVIDIA pledging nearly $10 billion to European companies, universities, and research institutions.

Huang announced planned investments in four German startups: Agile Robots, Avelios Medical, Mirelo, and Reflex Aerospace. Separately, German TV producer UFA uses Adobe's NVIDIA-accelerated Frame.io to search archives up to 15 years old across over 3,500 hours of annual production.

Huang defined sovereign AI as owning one's own data, culture, and knowledge with guaranteed access, rejecting chip nationality as the determinant.

European cities across Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, and the UK reported deployments of NVIDIA-powered AI agents for urban operations.

At GTC Paris, NVIDIA announced a partnership with Mistral to deploy 18,000 Grace Blackwell chips and a plan for a 10,000-GPU industrial AI cloud in Germany, plus collaborations across France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.