Germany Builds Its AI Autobahn With NVIDIA

Germany’s AI Transformation: Leveraging NVIDIA Technologies

Germany is building on its rich history of engineering innovation with significant investments in AI, poised to transform the country’s economy across various industries, including automotive, banking, manufacturing, and robotics.

The country is deploying tens of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs to power AI factories that generate intelligence for businesses and researchers. These AI factories will be optimized with AI software to run agentic and reasoning models for enterprises and physical AI technologies for next-generation cars and robots.

Industry leaders, startups, and research institutions are showcasing these initiatives at ISC High Performance and NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech this week.

Advanced AI Factory Infrastructure for Researchers and Enterprises

AI factories coming online across Germany will support the development of sovereign AI applications in the public and private sectors, including for the country’s small- and medium-size companies, known as the Mittelstand. The Mittelstand accounts for 99% of all enterprises in Germany and over half of the country’s economic output.

NVIDIA is building the world’s first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers in Germany. Powered by NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers featuring 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, this AI factory will enable Europe’s industrial leaders to accelerate manufacturing applications, including design, engineering, simulation, digital twins, and robotics.

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre hosts JUPITER, a supercomputer that will be Europe’s first exascale system. Featuring about 24,000 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, JUPITER will double the computing capacity of the continent’s previous most powerful publicly available supercomputer.

Enterprises and Startups Building Accelerated AI for Every Industry

German companies of all sizes and in nearly every field are using NVIDIA technologies to unlock new AI capabilities and levels of acceleration. Some notable examples include:

• DeepL, a leading language AI company, deploying an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 systems to accelerate AI development.
• Black Forest Labs, a generative AI startup, developing the FLUX.1 AI model suite for text-to-image generation.
• German robotics and automation companies integrating the NVIDIA Isaac platform for training, simulating, and deploying robots and sensing solutions.
• Finanz Informatik, the digitalization partner of the German Savings Banks Finance Group, using NVIDIA AI infrastructure and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to develop an AI assistant.

In the automotive sector, Mercedes-Benz is using Omniverse to create digital twins of its factories, while BMW Group and Continental are also leveraging NVIDIA technology.

AI Upskilling Trains Next Generation of Developers

To drive an AI transformation across Germany’s economy, the country is investing in AI education and upskilling through nonprofits, university, and industry collaborations. Initiatives include:

• appliedAI, Europe’s largest initiative for the application of trusted AI, launching a dedicated program for small and medium-sized German enterprises to access state-of-the-art NVIDIA infrastructure and software.
• NVIDIA partnering with LRZ and Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to provide developers with access to NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure and training.
• NVIDIA establishing a research center in Germany as part of the NVIDIA AI Technology Center program to advance research in fields like digital medicine and open-source robotics platforms.

Germany’s enterprises and systems integrators are also making it easier for anyone to harness AI acceleration. SAP is working with NVIDIA to integrate NVIDIA NIM microservices into its AI Foundation, while systems integrators like Accenture, adesso, Deloitte, Materna, and T-Systems offer customers tools to support the development and deployment of AI applications using NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platforms.

For more information, watch the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote from NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang at VivaTech, and explore GTC Paris sessions.