Jensen Huang used Nvidia's GTC conference in Berlin to lay out his vision for Europe's AI future: robotics, AI agents, and modular data centers, all running on Nvidia hardware. "To be part of this AI economy, you don't want to just be consuming the AI. You want to be producing the AI," he told a crowd of 4,000. "We can do all of that here in Europe."

The headline announcement was the DSX Pod, a plug-and-play "AI factory" that arrives fully assembled in a large metal container packed with Nvidia's Vera Rubin compute racks. Huang said it can come online in 14 days rather than the months or years typical construction takes-a pitch aimed squarely at Europe, where infrastructure projects are notoriously slow. He argued the faster setup also cuts the time compute sits idle. "This is a complete transformation," he said.

Huang called humanoid robotics the "next great industry" and said Europe's manufacturing heritage positions it to lead. He announced a full-stack robotics platform to standardize configuration, plus a preconfigured reference robot called Agile One, due in the first quarter of next year. Partnerships with Volkswagen and Mercedes on autonomous vehicles were also unveiled, and Huang noted telecom operators are adding Nvidia GPUs to cell towers.

On models, he predicted every company will eventually use both closed and customized open models, and said agents' reasoning and tool use are driving token consumption and demand for computing. Two Greenpeace protesters briefly interrupted the 90-minute speech with a banner reading "Clean up your dirty business"; Huang told security to "go easy" as they were removed. The event closed with an AI-generated Eurovision song summarizing the announcements.

Source: Wired