Germany plans to announce an agreement with Nvidia next week to help its industry make more use of artificial intelligence, Handelsblatt reported, citing sources. The sources said the deal will be a big boost for AI in industry and that partners besides Nvidia will join. The German government has not commented publicly, and the details have not been independently verified.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang are expected to present the agreement Monday at the Invest in Germany summit in Berlin. Nvidia has confirmed that Huang will be in the city next week.
The money involved is substantial. According to Handelsblatt, the government is prepared to spend several hundred million euros, possibly drawn from a fund set aside for research.
Most of that spending would pay for computing power on Deutsche Telekom's AI cloud, while Nvidia would supply engineers and chips. The aim is to lay the groundwork for physical AI, the kind used to train robots and self-driving cars, and to build powerful AI models for industry.
About a dozen German companies want to take part, including Siemens, Audi and image-generation startup Black Forest Labs, the paper reported.
The plan builds on an existing relationship. Telekom and Nvidia opened an industrial AI cloud in Munich earlier this year, running on up to 10,000 Nvidia chips.
The move also comes as Europe works to build its own AI capacity and rely less on American technology. That effort has not always gone smoothly. The European Union's AI gigafactory plan has run into delays. Meanwhile, Nvidia has been pitching its own sovereign AI stack to governments.
Last month, Berlin said it still wants to build more AI capacity so Europe can rely more on its own technology.
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