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- Jensen Huang says Nvidia will announce $2 billion in new European investments within a week and takes stakes in four French startups, per Bloomberg
Speaking in Paris on October 13 at the start of a tour that also includes London and Berlin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company plans to announce $2 billion in European investments in the next week, on top of about $8 billion it put into Europe over the past year. He also announced new investments in French startups Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment and Entalpic; Nvidia did not disclose the amounts, which Les Echos reported are minority stakes. Huang also promoted open-weight models as a way for Europe to close its AI gap.
- NVIDIA says European cities are deploying agents and digital twins built on Cosmos, Nemotron and Omniverse to run city operations
NVIDIA rounds up city projects in Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, the U.K. and elsewhere that use its Cosmos and Nemotron open models, the Metropolis blueprint for video search and summarization, and Omniverse libraries. In France, the Côte-d'Or department, Akila and ThinkDeep run operations agents over a sovereign digital twin of more than 500 public buildings that NVIDIA says cut document search from weeks to minutes and operating costs by 10%. Galene.AI, Dell and TD Synnex are deploying a locally operated AI factory starting with Cinisello Balsamo near Milan, and Younite is building an Omniverse digital twin of Gothenburg under the EU's Citiverse initiative.
- NVIDIA commits $250 million in compute over five years to UK agentic AI safety research and joins the Earthshot Prize
NVIDIA says it will provide $250 million in compute over five years, or $50 million a year in accelerated computing access, for agentic safety and security research through BOLD at the University of Oxford and SOFAIR at UCL and Imperial College London, and is joining the Earthshot Prize as a Global Alliance Founding Partner. The post also lists UK deployments, including Fuse Energy moving its customer AI onto in-house B300 Blackwell Ultra infrastructure, Locai Labs' open Nemotron-Personas-UK dataset of one million synthetic personas, OneAdvanced's primary-care triage LLM and Liverpool City Region's NVIDIA-powered "City Brain."
- Jensen Huang meets Emmanuel Macron on NVIDIA's investments in France's AI ecosystem and AI safety
NVIDIA says CEO Jensen Huang met French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee to discuss NVIDIA's investments in France's AI ecosystem, spanning startups, AI-native companies and computing infrastructure, as well as open source and AI safety, including its recently launched Open Agent Safety Platform. The meeting closed Huang's Paris visit on the road to NVIDIA GTC Berlin.
- NVIDIA commits $1 billion over five years to US science and super-intelligence research
NVIDIA announced commitments valued at $1 billion over the next five years to advance US scientific capacity in quantum computing, healthcare and energy security, unveiled at a Washington 'Science: A New Golden Age' event tied to the Genesis Mission. The company said the package supports higher-education research, quantum leadership and cloud capacity for government missions, building on two decades of national-lab work including DOE systems at Argonne and Los Alamos.