By The Associated Press
Publication Date: 2026-10-21 12:28:00
BERLIN (AP) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged players in Europe’s lagging artificial intelligence industry to get going and touted a modular system to quickly build AI data centers he says are sorely needed by developers on the continent.
In an upbeat speech Wednesday at a company conference for developers and investors in Berlin, Huang also laid out tools to keep AI applications from running amok by confining them in a digital “sandbox.”
“Europe’s AI economy is starting, and it’s accelerating, and it’s great to see,” Huang, striding across the stage in his trademark leather jacket and sneakers, said in front of some 3,000 developers, analysts and journalists at Berlin’s Tempodrom auditorium.
Huang, whose company designs the computer chips and software used by AI developers like Anthropic and OpenAI, frequently name-checked European partner companies such as Siemens, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen’s Audi.
“Europe is building its AI economy” as the technology moves from language models to so-called physical AI in manufacturing, Huang said. “Every company in the future will be an AI company.”
Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kallenius, whose company is working on developing autonomous driving technology with Nvidia, said that the technology could reduce the number of auto fatalities caused by human error “down to zero… we will have safer streets once we have full autonomy.”
Huang said Nvidia’s design for the Vera Rubin DSK Pod, a ready-made modular computing center…
