Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a $2 billion investment across Europe during his recent tour, building on the approximately $8 billion the company spent in the region last year. As part of this European push, Huang disclosed new stakes in French startups including Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment, and Entalpic, while also promoting open-weight models as a method for Europe to close its artificial intelligence gap.
In addition to the broader European funding, Nvidia is committing $250 million in compute resources over five years to support British research labs focusing on AI safety and security. The compute donation targets specific academic groups including BOLD at Oxford, SOFAIR at UCL, and Imperial College London, to support their work on open-ended learning, open-source AI architectures, and robotics safety.
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan welcomed the announcement as a strong vote of confidence in the country's expertise in artificial intelligence research. This funding initiative highlights Nvidia's ongoing financial expansion into European startup ecosystems and safety research institutions. Why it matters: This multimillion-dollar infrastructure and startup backing directly reinforces European AI safety labs and regional technological development.