At the AI in Science Summit in Dublin, NVIDIA joined the European Commission’s AI in Science Enablers initiative (part of RAISE), providing European researchers with tools, compute, and training.
The Nordics are building a leading European technology ecosystem with NVIDIA technology, expected to deploy 1 gigawatts of AI cloud compute by the end of 2027.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced in Paris $2 billion in new investments across Europe over the coming week, and disclosed stakes in French startups including Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment and Entalpic, advocating that Europe use open-weight models to close the AI gap.
NVIDIA announced new investments in French startups spanning aerospace, finance, public services and research. Mistral released the private-preview open model Mistral Large 4; Bull will produce NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 servers in Europe, planned for 2028; and the Altair-1 satellite carrying a Jetson AGX Orin is now in orbit.
In a Latent Space interview, Standard Bots CEO Evan Beard and AI lead Leif Jentoft explain how the industrial robotics company, which just raised a $200 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, is building its AI stack; customers include NASA, Amazon, and Lockheed Martin.
Nous Research announced a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Robot Ventures with Nvidia, Union Square Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Samsung and 1789 Capital participating, bringing total funding to $158 million.
The US Department of Justice arrested Greg Lui, 38, CEO of Earthmade Computer, alleging that from October 2023 to August 2026 he used falsified documents to ship servers containing export-controlled Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs through freight forwarders in Malaysia, Singapore and elsewhere, ultimately diverting them to a company in Hangzhou, China, in a scheme worth over $300 million.