Nvidia's Jensen Huang pledges $2 billion for Europe

Jensen Huang used his European tour — which also includes London and Berlin — to announce $2 billion in new investments across Europe, a figure that comes on top of the roughly $8 billion Nvidia spent in Europe last year. He also disclosed new stakes in four French startups: Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment, and Entalpic. Alongside the money, Huang promoted open-weight models as a way for Europe to close its AI gap and repeated his pushback against calls to slow things down.

Separately, Nvidia is donating $250 million in compute over five years to UK labs working on AI agent safety and security, specifically BOLD (Oxford), SOFAIR (UCL), and Imperial College London. Their work covers open-ended learning, open-source AI architectures, and robotics safety. UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan called it a "vote of confidence in our world-leading strength and expertise in AI research," likely a nod to the well-regarded output of the UK's government-backed AI Security Institute.