Nvidia (NVDA, Financials) will develop its first industrial AI cloud in Germany to support applications ranging from automotive design to logistics optimization, CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday at the VivaTech conference in Paris.
The platform will help industrial firms such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz simulate production processes and integrate robotics with artificial intelligence. Biotech companies like Novo Nordisk (NVO, Financials) are also expected to benefit, using Nvidia's tools for drug discovery.
Huang said Nvidia will multiply its AI computing capacity in Europe tenfold over the next two years and will open 20 AI factories—large-scale infrastructure facilities for building and deploying AI models. He described Europe as newly "awakened" to the importance of sovereign AI development.
Nvidia will also expand its technology centers across seven countries, launch a European compute marketplace, and partner with AI startups such as France-based Mistral to run models on 18,000 Nvidia chips.
The project aligns with the European Commission's own investment initiative, which earmarked $20 billion in March for building AI factories. Huang emphasized that no country or company can afford to "outsource its intelligence."
Separately, Huang reiterated his recent comments that quantum computing is reaching an inflection point and could solve real-world problems within a few years, reversing his prior view that useful quantum systems remain decades away.
