GTC Paris 2025: Paving the Way for Europe’s AI Future
This year’s NVIDIA GTC Paris delivered a powerful message - Europe is ready to shape its own AI destiny. Held alongside VivaTech 2025, the event saw Jensen Huang lay out NVIDIA’s vision for sovereign AI, industrial supercomputing, quantum fusion and the rise of autonomous agents.
Sovereign AI Becomes a European Priority
One of the standout messages from GTC Paris was the importance of sovereign AI infrastructure. Huang stressed that for European nations to remain competitive, they must develop local AI clouds, models and compute resources.
NVIDIA is collaborating with leading telcos - including Orange, Telefónica and Swisscom - and governments across the continent to lay the foundations for this AI independence. In Germany, the world’s first Industrial AI Factory is under construction to empower manufacturers like BMW and Volvo with cutting-edge AI supercomputing, powered by NVIDIA DGX and RTX Pro platforms.
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The Rise of ‘Thinking Machines’ and Photonics Networking
NVIDIA showcased its most advanced AI system to date - the GB200 NVL72 ‘thinking machine’, powered by Blackwell GPUs. Designed for next-generation workloads including reasoning, planning, and self-supervised learning, these systems are being produced at unprecedented scale.
Crucially, NVIDIA also revealed a breakthrough in photonics networking technology. The new silicon-photonics switch offers staggering speeds of up to 1.6 Tbps per port, while slashing power usage - a critical development as data centres prepare for ever-larger AI workloads.
Physical AI, Agentic Models and Industrial Digital Twins
The event also signalled the growing importance of agentic AI - AI agents capable of safe, autonomous decision-making in enterprise, industry and government settings. Tools like NeMo Agent and AI Blueprint will help enterprises build and manage these intelligent agents securely.
Meanwhile, NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform and the Newton physics engine (developed with DeepMind and Disney) enable hyper-accurate digital twins for industries such as automotive, robotics and manufacturing.
Quantum-Classical Fusion Moves Closer to Reality
NVIDIA’s vision for quantum and classical computing fusion took shape, with announcements including CUDA-Q deployments on Denmark’s Gefion supercomputer and the Grace Blackwell system. These innovations are designed to speed the development of quantum error correction—key to scaling this next frontier of computing.
Next-Generation AI Chips and Robotics Platforms Revealed
The roadmap continues with Blackwell Ultra GPUs (launching late 2025) and the future Vera Rubin architecture (expected 2026) - designed to meet the rising demands of AI foundation models.
For robotics, GREK made another appearance, a humanoid foundational AI model and Cosmos, a synthetic training data generator. These tools promise to accelerate real-world AI applications in automation and manufacturing.
A New Era of AI for Europe - and Beyond
GTC Paris 2025 marked a significant pivot point for the global AI landscape. Sovereign AI, photonics-powered networking, quantum-classical integration and physical robotics will reshape industries across Europe.
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