In Paris, Jensen Huang Lays Out How the Continent Is Scaling Up with Blackwell-Powered Factories, Agentic AI, and Sovereign Clouds
- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled Europe’s ambitious AI strategy at VivaTech in Paris, highlighting the continent’s shift toward building intelligence infrastructure with cutting-edge technologies like the GB200 NVL72 system.
- From quantum computing advancements with CUDA-Q to sovereign AI models via Nemotron, NVIDIA is partnering with European governments and industries to create secure, localized, and powerful AI ecosystems.
- Huang introduced a new industrial AI cloud in Germany, agentic AI blueprints, and robotics innovations, signaling an exponential wave of inference growth and a future of autonomous systems.
At the iconic Dôme de Paris, during Europe’s largest tech event, VivaTech, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivered a keynote that reverberated with ambition and vision. “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 declared to an audience both in-person and online. His message was clear: Europe isn’t just adopting artificial intelligence—it’s actively constructing the foundation for an AI-powered future. From exponential growth in inference workloads to quantum computing breakthroughs and industrial revolutions driven by robotics, Huang painted a picture of a continent on the cusp of transformation.
This new era, as Huang described, is powered by systems like the GB200 NVL72, which he called “one giant GPU” and NVIDIA’s most powerful AI platform to date. Now in full production, these systems are driving everything from sovereign AI models to quantum computing advancements. Huang emphasized the scale of this rollout, noting that NVIDIA’s partners are producing 1,000 GB200 systems weekly, with a range of solutions from the compact DGX Spark to rack-mounted RTX PRO Servers. “This machine was designed to be a thinking machine, in the sense that it reasons, it plans, it spends a lot of time talking to itself,” he explained, underscoring the revolutionary potential of these technologies. NVIDIA’s mission in Europe extends beyond hardware, as the company collaborates with governments, telcos, and cloud providers to build both AI infrastructure for third-party innovation and AI factories for internal revenue generation. New technology centers in Finland, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.K. are also accelerating skills development and quantum research across the region.
One of the most exciting developments Huang shared was in quantum computing. With the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform now live on Denmark’s Gefion supercomputer and available on Grace Blackwell systems, Europe’s quantum ambitions are gaining momentum. NVIDIA’s partnerships with supercomputing centers and quantum hardware builders are pushing hybrid quantum-AI research and error correction forward. “Quantum computing is reaching an inflection point,” Huang stated, expressing optimism about solving complex problems through quantum-classical integration in the near future. This fusion of classical and quantum technologies represents a significant leap, positioning Europe as a leader in next-generation computing.
A key focus of Huang’s vision for Europe is sovereignty in AI development. With tools like NVIDIA Nemotron, developers can build large language models tailored to local languages, cultures, and sensibilities. Huang highlighted how these models, integrated with platforms like Perplexity, enable secure, multilingual AI deployment. “You can now ask and get questions answered in the language, in the culture, in the sensibility of your country,” he said. Beyond models, NVIDIA is empowering companies to create their own AI agents with tools like the NeMo Agent toolkit and agentic AI blueprints, including a safety blueprint for enterprises and governments. The DGX Cloud Lepton platform, now integrated with Hugging Face, further simplifies deployment, offering a unified architecture that runs anywhere and provides instant access to global compute resources. Huang’s mantra of “one model architecture, one deployment” encapsulates this seamless approach to scaling AI across the continent.
AI’s impact in Europe isn’t confined to the virtual realm—it’s reshaping physical industries as well. Huang described a new industrial revolution fueled by NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform, which enables digital twins for simulation, automation, and optimization. In a groundbreaking move, NVIDIA is launching the world’s first industrial AI cloud in Germany to support manufacturers in scaling these capabilities. “We’re working on industrial AI with one company after another,” Huang noted, signaling a future where automation permeates every sector. This extends to transportation, with the NVIDIA DRIVE platform now in production to accelerate safe, intelligent autonomous vehicles. On stage, Huang was joined by Grek, a pint-sized robot, as he discussed collaborations with DeepMind and Disney to create Newton, the world’s most advanced physics training engine for robotics. “Soon, everything that moves will be robotic,” he predicted, pointing to cars as the next frontier.
Looking ahead, Huang emphasized that the next wave of AI is already here—and it’s exponential. Inference workloads have skyrocketed, with users growing from 8 million to 800 million in just a few years. To meet this demand, Huang introduced Blackwell-powered systems as “thinking machines” designed for reasoning and housed in AI factories that generate tokens—the raw material of modern intelligence. “These AI factories are going to generate tokens,” he said with a smile, turning to Grek, “and these tokens are going to become your food, little Grek.” This playful yet profound metaphor captured the essence of his vision: a future where physical robots and information agents coexist, driven by technologies that teach, simulate, and manipulate the world around us.
Huang’s keynote closed on a bold note, outlining a future powered by sovereign infrastructure, agentic AI, robotics, and exponential inference growth—all built in partnership with Europe. From Blackwell-powered factories to industrial clouds and quantum breakthroughs, the continent is not just participating in the AI revolution; it’s leading it. As Huang’s words echoed through the Dôme de Paris, one thing was clear: Europe’s intelligence infrastructure is no longer a concept—it’s a reality taking shape at an unprecedented pace.