European leaders are interested in NVIDIA's "sovereign AI"
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has finally found a response to his proposal for "sovereign artificial intelligence." European leaders have expressed interest in their own models, independent of a few large American companies, Reuters reports.
"Sovereign artificial intelligence," which Huang has been proposing since 2023, aims to create separate, independent large-scale language models for each country, which will take into account the peculiarities of the state's language, history, and culture.
NVIDIA, in particular, is already taking the first steps in this direction. Last week, Huang signed a deal with startup Mistral AI to build new data centers in France. He also visited several other cities, including London and Berlin, where he also announced new partnerships to build AI infrastructure in Europe.
Europe is also actively moving in this direction. The French president announced an investment of €109 billion in artificial intelligence in early 2025. Last week, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer also announced funding of £1 billion to develop computing power for AI.
The aforementioned Mistral AI, which recently unveiled Europe's first thinking LLM, will use 18,000 NVIDIA processors to build data centers. In addition, NVIDIA also said it plans to build AI "gigafactories" in Europe that will contain about 100,000 chips.
In February 2025, the European Union also announced plans to create "AI gigafactories" worth about $20 billion to reduce dependence on American companies. Meanwhile, in April, the EU presented an "AI Action Plan for the Continent" that aims to reduce the number of regulations for AI to accelerate development.
While the motivation of European states is to develop their own sovereign technologies in order to reduce their dependence on the United States, NVIDIA has somewhat opposite goals. The American company, on the contrary, wants to establish itself on the global market as a leading supplier of chips for artificial intelligence. According to various sources, NVIDIA is currently responsible for about 80% of the market for chips used in data centers.