NVIDIA 携 GTC Berlin 登陆欧洲，黄仁勋巴黎会晤马克龙

Salle des Tirages, a historic hall on Place Vendôme, has hosted events of consequence for more than a century. On Tuesday evening, it held France's latest ecosystem moment as founders, policymakers, researchers and press gathered for NVIDIA's France AI Ecosystem Reception.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang took the stage to discuss NVIDIA’s investments in Europe and the need for safe and secure technology development.

“Europe is one of the great regions of industrial manufacturing,” Huang said. “This is the beginning of the AI journey for the EU.”

Roland Lescure, France's Minister of the Economy, joined Huang onstage to talk about France’s strategy for innovation and economic growth.

“We want Europe to enjoy this revolution that’s going to create prosperity, jobs and revenue,” Lescure said. “For this we need pioneers.”

As attendees mingled at the reception, crowds gathered around a couple tiny guests: Microducks, 10-inch biped robots by Hugging Face that run on open source software.

Huang also stepped outside to address the press gathered at the venue about secure technology deployment.

“Containment and monitoring are the fundamental pillars of AI,” he said.

Later that evening, Huang met with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace to discuss NVIDIA’s contribution to France’s thriving AI ecosystem through investments spanning startups, AI-native companies and computing infrastructure.

They also spoke about the importance of open source for France and Europe, AI safety and NVIDIA’s recent launch of its Open Agent Safety Platform.

AI; Economic Development; Open Source

NVIDIA Brings Build-a-Claw to the Heart of Paris

On the afternoon before NVIDIA's France Ecosystem Reception, hundreds of developers gathered at Pavillon Vendôme to build physical AI — and get a surprise visit from NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang.

Pavillon Vendôme sits just off Place Vendôme in the 1st arrondissement — one of the most storied addresses in Paris. On Tuesday afternoon, it was full of claws.

NVIDIA’s Build-a-Claw came to France with developers from the nation’s startup community and big companies alike packing into the pavilion. The excited crowd was lined up around the block to try their hands (and brains) at building AI-powered robotic claw machines using open models and NVIDIA’s platform.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang dropped in on the robotic fun chatting with the crowds inside and outside, and showing off NVIDIA DGX Spark and RTX Spark AI computing powerhouse machines.

“The world’s first computers that unite all the software the world has ever created,” Huang said.

Huang then raffled off one of each of the machines, signing the DGX Spark and handing out an autographed “IOU” for the wildly popular RTX machine, since it’s sold out at the moment.

The crowd of developers did not miss a beat, claws were waiting, and went back to building.

The Paris Build-a-Claw was NVIDIA's second event of the day, after a morning Build-a-Claw in Barcelona drew another big crowd at the Palacio de Pedralbes. He next headed to the nearby Salle des Tirages for an evening ecosystem reception with France's AI leaders.

A single day, and already there is a sense of the huge excitement and ambition across the tech ecosystem in both countries. More news, and more countries to come.

Before NVIDIA's keynote in Berlin, the road to GTC began in Barcelona — with a royal palace, hundreds of developers and a very particular kind of robot.

The Palacio de Pedralbes sits at the edge of Barcelona on land that once belonged to the Spanish royal family. On Tuesday morning, it belonged to builders.

NVIDIA's Build-a-Claw brought together hundreds of developers, researchers and AI enthusiasts from across Spain and Europe for a morning of hands-on AI at the historic site. Using open models and NVIDIA's platform, participants built robotic claw machines capable of picking up objects — physical AI, made from scratch, in a few hours. The crowd was rapt as it watched robotic arms perform grasping tasks, learn from their own failures and improve over the span of time it takes to eat breakfast.

For the crowd on hand it was an example of how to build and train robots using open models not just quickly, but safely and securely, something Spain's developer community is embracing. Check back for more robotic breakthroughs across Europe on the road to GTC Berlin.

Companies in France are deploying agentic computing across industries spanning space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research, demonstrating how the country’s ecosystem has moved from ambition to application.

France’s progress sits on deliberate groundwork.

The AI Action Summit in February 2025 and Choose France Summits in 2025 and 2026 anchored major compute commitments on French soil. What the ecosystem has built since then spans the full stack.