The great mass of European tech opened this Thursday, June 11 in Paris. The Nvidia flea specialist also held his European AI event.
J-Day for Viva Tech. The annual meeting of European tech opened this June 11 under the sign of automation, with large reinforcements of smart agents and robotics. What to do, this year again, the beautiful share of artificial intelligence. And who better than Nvidia to embody this trend? The flea specialist held his European GTC nearby the show, with the highlight on the stage of Jensen Huang, his charismatic CEO.
Agentic and robotics, Nvidia spearhead
In a fairly visionary speech, Jensen Huang presented AI as a new industrial infrastructure, comparable to electricity and the Internet. “These AI centers are not conventional data centers, but intelligence generation factories,” he explains, notably evoking the Stargate project. Nvidia sees these infrastructure as real production sites, capable of generating mass token (see our article The “factory”, future engine of a new industrial revolution). The CEO of NVIDIA also recalled European engagement in artificial intelligence, particularly in France, Germany and Italy. “Europe awakens the importance of AI infrastructure,” he said, predicting an increase in factor 10 of the AI calculation capacity in the next two years within the Old Continent.
On the forehead of robotics, an increasingly significant vertical within Nvidia, Jensen Huang has also detailed the global vision of the company. The strategy is now based on the creation of smart robots, going from software models to autonomous physical systems. By massive simulation, Nvidia leads to her agents in hundreds of thousands of scenarios, allowing them to learn and adapt before any real interaction. Instead of programming rigid behavior, Nvidia wants to build systems capable of dynamic learning. Jensen Huang is sure, automation will certainly go through robotics.
During an exchange with specialized journalists, including the JDN, the CEO of Nvidia then delivered its vision of AI as “the greatest equalizer that the world has ever created”. On security, Jensen Huang advocates transparency: “If you want things to be done safely and responsible, you do it in the open. Not in a dark room”, tackling between anthropic lines.
“With AI, all jobs will be transformed, including mine”
Huang predicts a complete transformation of employment: “I believe that all jobs will be transformed, including mine.” He plans not a massive disappearance of jobs but their evolution: “Some jobs will become obsolete, but many will be created.” Its logic: more productive companies hire more.
On AGE, this super AI capable of equaling human capacities, the CEO provides for its arrival in less than five years. “The exact definition of the act is not complex at all. We give you a series of tests, and we say: when you succeed in all these tests – mathematics, English, reasoning, law, medicine, all these things – better than any human, you are an act. It is easy to accomplish. We will accomplish it in less than five years,” says the leader.
A strategic partnership Mistral / Nvidia
During this first day already very busy, Mistral AI and Nvidia then detailed, under the eye of the President of the Republic, a historic partnership aimed at propeling European artificial intelligence. Mistral AI will deploy 18,000 NVIDIA Blackwell chips, representing a potential investment of one billion euros, to create the first independent European IA infrastructure. “The intelligence of a country cannot be simply imported,” hammered Jensen Huang, recalling the need for national actors in AI.
The infrastructure, which should be deployed in the Paris region, aims to offer European companies a sovereign and secure ecosystem. Several major accounts have already expressed their interest. “I was at the office of the president to present this idea to him. I explained to the President that Arthur and Mistral needed the support of large French companies. His reaction was immediate: ‘Let me call them.’ In a few days, the large French groups mobilized in mass. It is remarkable to see how the French economic ecosystem can mobilize so quickly, “recalls Jensen Huang.
For Emmanuel Macron, AI is a “fight for sovereignty and strategic autonomy”, an opportunity to “preserve our intelligence and our diversity”. The president sees in this alliance not only a means of strengthening the French tech ecosystem, but above all to build a credible alternative to the American cloud giants.
