NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang used GTC Paris, held alongside VivaTech, Europe’s largest tech event, to say Europe is not only adopting AI but building it. Speaking to an audience gathered online and at the Dôme de Paris, Huang described AI as part of a new “intelligence infrastructure” that he said “will be used by every country, every society.”
Huang said systems such as GB200 NVL72 — “one giant GPU” and NVIDIA’s most powerful AI platform yet — are now in full production and being used across areas including sovereign models and quantum computing. He also said NVIDIA’s partners are producing 1,000 GB200 systems a week, “and this is just the beginning.”
NVIDIA is working with European governments, telcos and cloud providers to deploy its technologies across the region, and is expanding technology centers in Finland, Germany, Spain, Italy and the U.K. Huang said the goal is to help countries build both AI infrastructure for third parties and AI factories for companies’ own use.
On quantum computing, Huang said the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform is live on Denmark’s Gefion supercomputer, and that CUDA-Q is now available on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems. He said NVIDIA is also partnering with supercomputing centers and quantum hardware builders to advance hybrid quantum-AI research and quantum error correction.
Huang also highlighted NVIDIA Nemotron for building large language models tuned to local needs. He said models based on it will be coming to Perplexity, “a reasoning search engine,” to support secure, multilingual AI deployment across Europe.
For agents, Huang introduced a suite of agentic AI blueprints, including an Agentic AI Safety blueprint for enterprises and governments. He also announced the NVIDIA NeMo Agent toolkit and NVIDIA AI Blueprint for building data flywheels, alongside DGX Cloud Lepton, which NVIDIA is deploying with European governments, telcos and cloud providers. Huang said Lepton is now integrated with Hugging Face.
In industrial AI, Huang said NVIDIA is building digital twins based on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform and announced the launch of “the world’s first industrial AI cloud” in Germany to help Europe’s manufacturers simulate, automate and optimize at scale. He also said NVIDIA DRIVE is now in production for large-scale deployment of safe, intelligent transportation.
Looking ahead, Huang said inference use has gone from 8 million to 800 million, and argued that the next wave of AI will need a “special computer designed for thinking, designed for reasoning.” He said that is what Blackwell is, calling it “a thinking machine.”
Source: blogs.nvidia.com.
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