Nvidia outlined plans to scale AI factories and research hubs in Europe, expanded partnerships with Schneider Electric and Siemens and expanded model choices for sovereign AI and NIM Microservices.

Those high-level headlines from Nvidia GTC Paris were part of a broader stream of updates for the AI market in Europe, where Nvidia has more than 1.5 million developers. Nvidia also announced that European enterprises are adopting agentic AI including Novo Nordisk, Siemens, Shell, BT Group, SAP, Nestle, L'Oreal and BNP Paribas. The company also touted adoption of its Nvidia Drive autonomous vehicle platform at Volvo, Mercedes Benz and Jaguar as well as quantum computing efforts in the region.

Nvidia Jensen Huang said during the GTC Paris keynote:

"Europe has now awakened to the importance of these AI factories, and the importance of the AI infrastructure.  I'm so delighted to see so much activity here. This is just the beginning."

Dion Harris, Senior Director of HPC and AI Factory Solutions at Nvidia, said:

"We're deeply integrated with upskilling and education, working with all of the top higher education and research institutions and the global systems integrators, Europe is poised to be a powerhouse in this new industrial revolution. The only thing is missing is infrastructure. Today, every nation needs to build AI infrastructure, and every company needs to build an AI factory."

Here's a breakdown of what Nvidia announced:

  • Schneider Electric and Nvidia expanded a partnership designed to accelerate the deployment of AI factories. The two companies will collaborate on reference designs, simulation, design and layout, infrastructure and architecture for AI factories. The two companies will also look to scale production of cooling systems in Europe and 800 volt direct current architectures.
  • A roster of European supercomputing centers and cloud service providers building Nvidia-based AI infrastructure.
  • European Nvidia AI Technology Centers in Finland, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Italy and Spain. Nvidia is working with Italy to advance its sovereign AI efforts.
  • DGX Cloud Lepton integration with Hugging Face Training Cluster as a Service. Nvidia also said it is working with EMEA model builders and offering sovereign AI models via Perplexity Pro. According to Nvidia, each country in EMEA needs strong models that reflect each nation's unique language and culture and operates in region.
  • Nvidia is working with Mistral AI to build a cloud platform powered by 18,000 Grace Blackwell systems.
  • As part of that expanded model selection, Nvidia said NIM Microservices will have access to more than 100,000 open and custom models via Hugging Face public and private LLMs.
  • NeMo AI agent additions including AI Safety Blueprint, Data Flywheel and Agentic AI Toolkit. Nvidia added that NIM and NeMo will be integrated into SAP Business AI.
  • Siemens and Nvidia will expand their partnership to accelerate AI capabilities in manufacturing with a focus on product design and engineering, production optimization, operational planning, digital twins and industrial edge computing. Nvidia's various libraries for CUDA X, RTX and Omniverse will be integrated into Siemens product portfolio.

  • Nvidia also announced how its GB200 NVL72 system is powering quantum computing workloads and simulations with European enterprises and research hubs.

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