Germany plans an industrial AI partnership with Nvidia at the Invest in Germany summit in Berlin on Oct. 19–20, 2026, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz meeting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the start of the event, deutschland.de reported. About a dozen German companies are expected to take part, including Siemens, Volkswagen's Audi and AI firm Black Forest Labs.
Handelsblatt, which first reported the plan, said the federal government is ready to invest a three-digit million-euro amount to buy compute and train industrial models, with Nvidia contributing engineers and chips. The goals are a foundation for "physical AI" — systems that act in the real world, such as robots and autonomous vehicles — and powerful AI models for factories.
What Huang said
In a ZDF interview on the sidelines of a Berlin product event, Huang said German industry is well placed: "The technology here is ready to meet the technology Nvidia is strong in: artificial intelligence." On data sovereignty he said Nvidia supplies the computers, but "What runs on the systems should be provided here in Germany. That way you control your own data, your own capacity to act."
Separately in Berlin, Huang told Bloomberg's Emily Chang that the recent AI stock sell-off will pass: "All of this is going to pass… It's going to be transformative." The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index had fallen for eight straight sessions, the Straits Times reported. Related: how to watch Huang's GTC Berlin keynote Oct. 21 and Mercedes-Nvidia Level 4 plans.
