Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive, outlined plans for Europe's artificial intelligence economy at the company's Berlin conference on Wednesday, centered on modular data centers, robotics platforms, and partnerships with regional carmakers.
Huang announced the DSX Pod, a containerized "plug-and-play" data center that arrives fully assembled with Nvidia's latest compute hardware. The system can go online in 14 days instead of months or years, a timeline Huang said addresses Europe's notoriously slow infrastructure development. The pod reduces idle compute time by accelerating deployment.
Huang positioned humanoid robotics as the "next great industry," citing Europe's manufacturing heritage as a competitive advantage. Nvidia announced a full-stack robotics platform and a preconfigured reference robot called Agile One, launching in the first quarter of next year, to standardize configurations for developers. The company also announced partnerships with Volkswagen and Mercedes on autonomous vehicles.
Huang predicted that all future companies will use both closed proprietary models and open-source models customized on private data. He showcased Nvidia's own open-source models achieving frontier performance after customization. He also forecast that AI agents' reasoning, iteration, and tool-use capabilities will increase token consumption and GPU demand.
The speech included demonstrations of Microduck robots made by Hugging Face, which Nvidia acquired recently. Huang noted that telecom operators are adding Nvidia GPUs to cell towers as part of broader physical AI adoption beyond robotics.
During the 90-minute presentation at Berlin's Tempodrom venue, two Greenpeace protesters briefly interrupted, unfurling a banner reading "Clean up your dirty business" before being escorted out. Huang instructed security to "Go easy" on the demonstrators. The speech concluded with an AI-generated Eurovision song summarizing Huang's announcements.