NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang urged the European Union (EU) to invest in AI technology.
During his visit to Copenhagen on Wednesday, Huang mentioned that the EU is far behind the U.S. and China regarding AI investment.
“The EU has to accelerate the progress in AI,” Huang stated, adding, “There’s an awakening in every country realizing that the data is a national resource.”
Although there are only a handful of AI companies in Europe, such as France’s Mistral and Germany’s Aleph Alpha, the EU passed the world’s first comprehensive AI regulatory framework, which took effect in August.
Huang is currently visiting Denmark to launch a new supercomputer called Gefion, which boasts 1,528 graphics processing units (GPUs).
This supercomputer was developed with the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Danish Export and Investment Fund.
Denmark intends to utilize this supercomputer for drug discovery, disease diagnosis, treatment, and addressing complex challenges in life sciences.
“The era of computer aided drug discovery must be within this decade,” Huang remarked, adding, “This will be the decade of digital biology.”
NVIDIA is the world’s top GPU manufacturer and is highly sought after for speeding up AI tasks. OpenAI’s ChatGPT was built using thousands of NVIDIA GPUs.
NVIDIA’s market value is $3.52 trillion, making it the second-largest publicly listed U.S. company after Apple.
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