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Nvidia's Jensen Huang pledges $2B for Europe and $250M in compute to UK AI safety labs
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a pledge of $2 billion in new investments across Europe and said Nvidia will donate $250 million in compute over five years to UK AI safety labs, including BOLD (Oxford), SOFAIR (UCL), and Imperial College London. Huang also disclosed stakes in French startups Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment, and Entalpic and promoted open-weight models as a way for Europe to narrow its AI gap.
KEY POINTS
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a pledge of $2 billion in new investments across Europe and said Nvidia will donate $250 million in compute over five years to UK AI safety labs, including BOLD (Oxford), SOFAIR (UCL), and Imperial College London.
- Huang also disclosed stakes in French startups Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment, and Entalpic and promoted open-weight models as a way for Europe to narrow its AI gap.
- The commitments signal major private investment in European AI—both capital and compute for safety research—which could accelerate model development, research capacity, and industry influence in Europe and the UK.
WHY IT MATTERS
The commitments signal major private investment in European AI—both capital and compute for safety research—which could accelerate model development, research capacity, and industry influence in Europe and the UK.