NVIDIA GTC Paris 2025: Key Announcements

Jensen Huang’s Keynote: Setting the Stage for Europe’s AI Future

At the GTC Paris 2025 conference, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang outlined a bold vision for Europe’s new 'intelligence infrastructure,' built on agentic AI, AI factories, sovereign clouds, and industrial AI adoption.

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Here are our key takeaways from the keynote:

1. Enter the Agentic Era

AI now “acts” intelligently—observing, reasoning, planning, retrying—not just perceiving or generating. This marks a fundamental shift toward autonomous, adaptive systems.

2. Rise of Physical AI & Robotics

Generative models are now generating motion — bridging the gap between agents and robotics, driven by NVIDIA’s Isaac™ GROOT and Cosmos™ simulations

3. Digital-Twin Factories Everywhere

In Germany, Nvidia is building Europe’s first industrial AI cloud, powered by 10,000 Blackwell GPUs and DGX B200 systems, enabling digital twins for manufacturing processes

4. 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀

These facilities are built to produce intelligence, not just store data. This marks a new industrial revolution — where AI infrastructure becomes national infrastructure.

5. Sovereign AI Takes Center Stage

NVIDIA is championing a sovereign AI model—building sovereign infrastructure by localizing data and servers within European borders. Partnerships span France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, Finland, and beyond.

6. Strategic Partnerships Drive the Ecosystem

• Mistral AI (France): Launching an “AI cloud” powered by 18,000 Grace Blackwell chips to host Mistral models and enterprise workloads.
  
• Telcos & Cloud Providers: Collaborations with Orange, Fastweb, Swisscom, Telefónica, Telenor to roll out DGX superPODs and edge fabrics across Europe.
  
• Industry Giants & Government Agencies: Siemens, BMW, Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, Novo Nordisk, and European governments are building skill centers and labs in Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Finland.

7. Nemotron & Agent Platform

Nvidia introduced Nemotron, an open-source “sovereign model” locally adaptible, integrating with reasoning-powered search engine Perplexity, enabling multilingual inference. Plus, the Enterprise AI Agent Platform via NeMo Agent toolkit offers builders a robust foundation for agentic applications.

What It Means for the Road Ahead

Europe is undergoing a pivotal shift moving from reliance on general-purpose AI tools to building sovereign regional AI ecosystems. This movement aims to reduce dependence on U.S. and Chinese technologies by embedding AI infrastructure directly into national frameworks. 

At the same time, the convergence of agentic and physical AI is bringing real-time decision-making into the physical world—unlocking transformative potential in robotics, industrial automation, and complex system management. Massive compute deployments, like Mistral’s 18,000 Blackwell chips, are enabling European startups and enterprises to train and deploy advanced AI models locally. 

This marks more than just a technological evolution—it signals a new industrial revolution, where data centres are no longer passive warehouses but intelligent factories actively generating insight, autonomy, and innovation across sectors.

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