The chief of Nvidia calls the AI ”the greatest equalizer” but warns that Europe is likely to late
Paris – Will artificial intelligence save humanity-or will it destroy it? Lift the poorest in the world – or tighten the grip of a technological elite?
Jensen Huang, the world flea magnate, offered his opinion on Wednesday: neither dystopia nor domination. AI, he said, is a release tool.
Dressed in his signature biker jacket and assaulted by fans for selfies, the CEO of Nvidia cut the figure of a Rockstar Tech while he went on stage to Vivatech in Paris.
“AI is the greatest equalizer of the people that the world has ever created,” said Huang, launching one of the largest fairs in the technological industry in Europe.
But beyond the Sheeny perspective, Nvidia used the Paris summit to unveil a wave of infrastructure announcements across Europe, signaling a spectacular expansion of the physical and strategic footprint of the manufacturer of Tamias of AI on the continent.
In France, the company deploys 18,000 of its new Blackwell fleas with the startup Mistral AI. In Germany, he built an industrial AI cloud to support manufacturers. Similar deployments are underway in Italy, Spain, Finland and the United Kingdom, including a new AI laboratory in Great Britain.
Other announcements include a partnership with the AI Perplexity startup to bring Sovereign IA models to European publishers and telecommunications, a new cloud platform with Mistral IA, and to work with BMW and Mercedes-Benz to form robots powered by AI for use in automotive factories.
The announcements reflect the way in which central AI infrastructure has become global strategy and how Nvidia – the most precious flea manufacturer in the world – is positioned as the engine behind.
At the center of the debate is the concept of Huang of the AI factory: not a plant that makes goods, but a vast data center that creates intelligences. These installations form language models, simulate new drugs, detect cancer in scans, etc.
When asked if such systems may create a “technological priesthood” – hoarding of calculation power and masking upward innovation that has fueled the technological industry over the past 50 years – Huang has rejected.
“Through the speed of our innovation, we democratize,” he told the Associated Press. “We reduce the cost of access to technology.”
As Huang said, these factories “reason”, “plan” and “spend a lot of time talking”, fueling everything, from cat to vehicles and autonomous diagnostics.
But some criticisms warn that without railing, such self-reinforcing systems of all time could follow the path of Skynet in the film “The Terminator”-large engine engines that go beyond human control.
“Just as electricity has propelled the last industrial revolution, the AI will feed the next one,” he said. “Each country now needs a national intelligence infrastructure.”
He added: “The factories of AI are now part of the infrastructure of a country. This is why you see me running around the world talking to the heads of state – they all want AI to be part of their infrastructure. They want AI to be an industry for making growth for them.”
Europe, for a long time rented for its leadership on digital rights, is now found at a crossroads. While Brussels is progressing with the first AI global regulation, some warn that overexploitation could cost the block in the world race. With the United States and China in advance and most large AI companies based elsewhere, the risk is not only late – it becomes out of words.
Huang has a different vision: Ai Sovereign. Not isolation, but autonomy – the construction of national AI systems aligned with local values, regardless of foreign technology giants.
“The data belongs to you,” said Huang. “It belongs to your people, your country … your culture, your history, your common sense.”
But the fears concerning the improper use of AI remain powerful – of the supervision and the deep propaganda of the losses of jobs and algorithmic discrimination. Huang does not deny the risks. But he insists that technology can be maintained in itself.
“In the future, the AI that makes the task will be surrounded by 70 or 80 others that supervise it, observe it, keeping it, ensuring that it does not come out of the rails.”
The Vivatech event was part of Huang’s wider European tour. He had already appeared at the London Tech Week and should visit Germany. In Paris, he joined French President Emmanuel Macron and the CEO of Mistral Ai Arthur Mensch to strengthen his message that AI is now a national priority.
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Chan reported in London.
