Paris, France – In a significant address at GTC Paris, held alongside VivaTech, Europe's largest tech event, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivered a powerful message: Europe isn't just adopting AI; it's actively building the future of intelligence. Huang outlined a bold vision for the continent, detailing how it's scaling up with cutting-edge technology, sovereign AI capabilities, and a new wave of "intelligence infrastructure."
The Dawn of a New Industrial Revolution
"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 stated to a captivated audience at the iconic Dôme de Paris and online.
At the heart of this transformation, Huang highlighted systems like the GB200 NVL72 – which he described as "one giant GPU" and NVIDIA’s most powerful AI platform to date. These behemoths are now in full production, set to power everything from national AI models to advanced quantum computing initiatives.
"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 explained, detailing the sheer scale and performance of these systems. And this is just the beginning. Huang revealed that NVIDIA's partners are already producing an astounding 1,000 GB200 systems a week.
NVIDIA is actively working to help European nations build both AI infrastructure – services for third parties to innovate on – and AI factories – systems companies build for their own revenue generation. To facilitate this, NVIDIA is forging partnerships with European governments, telcos, and cloud providers, while also expanding its network of technology centers across Europe, with new hubs in Finland, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.K. These centers aim to accelerate skills development and quantum growth across the continent.
Quantum Meets Classical: A Hybrid Future
Europe's quantum ambitions are also receiving a significant boost. The NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform is now live on Denmark’s Gefion supercomputer, opening new avenues for hybrid AI and quantum engineering. Furthermore, Huang announced that CUDA-Q is now available on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems, strengthening the bridge between classical and quantum computing.
"Quantum computing is reaching an inflection point," Huang declared, expressing optimism that "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 and Smarter Agents
European developers are increasingly seeking greater control over their AI models. To meet this demand, NVIDIA is introducing NVIDIA Nemotron, designed to help build large language models tailored to local needs and cultures. These enhanced open models will be integrated into platforms like 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 emphasized, highlighting the push towards culturally relevant AI.
Huang also unveiled a suite of agentic AI blueprints, including an Agentic AI Safety blueprint for enterprises and governments, to help companies build their own intelligent AI agents. The new NVIDIA NeMo Agent toolkit and NVIDIA AI Blueprint for building data flywheels will further accelerate the development of safe, high-performing AI agents. For deployment, NVIDIA is partnering with European entities to deploy the DGX Cloud Lepton platform across the region, providing instant access to powerful computing capacity.
The Industrial Cloud Goes Live: AI in the Physical World
AI's impact isn't confined to the digital realm; it's increasingly powering physical systems, sparking a new industrial revolution. NVIDIA is working with manufacturers across Europe to build digital twins based on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform, simulating, automating, and optimizing industrial processes at scale.
To further this, Huang announced the launch of the world's first industrial AI cloud in Germany, specifically designed to aid Europe's manufacturing sector.
"Soon, everything that moves will be robotic," Huang predicted, pointing to the automotive industry as the next frontier. NVIDIA DRIVE, their full-stack autonomous vehicle platform, is already in production to accelerate the deployment of safe, intelligent transportation.
Huang even brought out Grek, a pint-sized robot, to showcase advancements in robotics, revealing NVIDIA's partnership with DeepMind and Disney to build Newton, the world’s most advanced physics training engine for robotics.
The Next Wave: Exponential Growth
"The next wave of AI has begun — and it's exponential," Huang explained. This era is characterized by the rise of both "physical robots" and "information robots," or "agents." The technology to teach and simulate complex robotic manipulations is now a reality.
This new AI era is being fueled by an explosion in inference workloads. "The number of people using inference has gone from 8 million to 800 million — 100x in just a couple of years," Huang revealed. To meet this surging demand, he underscored 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 reside in a new class of data centers – AI factories – built specifically to generate "tokens," the raw material of modern intelligence. As Huang playfully put it to robot Grek, "These AI factories are going to generate tokens... And these tokens are going to become your food, little Grek."
With this bold vision, Jensen Huang's keynote concluded, painting a picture of a future where Europe, in partnership with NVIDIA, will lead the charge in building sovereign AI infrastructure, deploying sophisticated agentic AI, driving robotics, and harnessing exponential inference growth.