Germany to Partner With Nvidia on AI Development Initiative, Report Says

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• Germany's government is planning an AI initiative with Nvidia to build infrastructure for physical-AI applications (robot training, autonomous vehicles) and develop industrially competitive AI models, according to German daily Handelsblatt cited by Investing.com citing people familiar with the matter; no official government announcement has been made. Berlin plans to invest several hundred million euros in computing power and model training, with Nvidia contributing resources including engineering staff; about a dozen German companies are expected to participate, including Siemens, Audi and Black Forest Labs.
• The initiative is expected to be announced at next week's 'Invest in Germany' summit; Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is reported to attend a Berlin event Monday, meeting Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Mercedes-Benz's CEO. It would expand Soofi, a sovereign open-source foundation-model consortium founded in September 2025, which the federal economy ministry backed with €20 million; its first model was trained on Deutsche Telekom's industrial AI cloud.

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