NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has received support for his concept of “sovereign artificial intelligence”. Leaders of European countries have shown interest in creating their own models, independent of several large American companies, informs Reuters.
“Sovereign artificial intelligence”, the concept of which Huang has been promoting since 2023, involves the development of separate independent large language models for each state, which will take into account its linguistic, historical and cultural peculiarities.
NVIDIA has already started implementing this strategy. Last week, Huang signed a deal with startup Mistral AI to build new data centers in France. In addition, he visited London and Berlin, where he also announced new partnerships for the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure in Europe.
European countries are actively involved in the process. At the beginning of 2025, the French president announced an investment of €109 billion in the development of artificial intelligence. Last week, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced £1 billion in funding to boost computing power for AI.
Startup Mistral AI, which recently presented the first European LLM with elements of thinking, will use 18 thousand NVIDIA processors to build data centers. In addition, NVIDIA announced plans to create “gigafactories” of artificial intelligence with about 100 thousand chips in Europe.
In February 2025, the European Union also announced plans to create its own “AI gigafactories” worth about $20 billion in order to reduce dependence on American companies. In April, the EU presented the “Action Plan for the AI Continent”, which provides for the relaxation of regulations to accelerate the development of the industry.
For now, European countries are looking to develop their own independent technologies to reduce dependence on the US, while NVIDIA is pursuing another goal — to strengthen its position as the world leader in supplying AI chips. According to various estimates, the company currently supplies about 80% of the chips used in data centers around the world.
