The initiative follows an announcement that Nvidia will invest $2B in new European AI projects next week, bringing the total committed over the past year to $10B. This funding includes minority stakes in French startups Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment, and Entalpic, alongside a planned data center buildout in Europe. Huang is currently on a regional tour with visits to London and Berlin for GTC Berlin, where he has urged Europe to accelerate its AI development to keep pace with the U.S.
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Nvidia Backs Franco-German Open AI Research Push in Paris
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Nvidia's chief executive coordinated with President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace to implement the Open Agent Safety Platform and expand computing infrastructure for French enterprises. During the meeting, Jensen Huang pledged support for a joint Franco-German initiative to advance open AI research to maintain regional technological sovereignty. This expansion includes a strategic partnership with Mistral AI, which utilized 4,000 Grace Blackwell chips to train its most recent model.
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