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Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President & Director, NVIDIA

Germany Falling Behind In AI? NVIDIA CEO Huang Urges Berlin To Catch Up In The Global AI Race

📅 Oct 19, 2026 MIRROR NOW 8 MIN 1 VIEWS 13 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
CEO of NVIDIA Jensen Huang on Wednesday urged Germany to take advantage of the computer industry and take the opportunities to thrive in artificial intelligence, ahead of his visit to Berlin. Speaking to reporters at an event in the central London after the company announced a $250 million donation over five years to support U.K. agentic safety and security research, Huang said that with artificial intelligence everyone is at the "same place" and if Germany wants to use this opportunity, "this is the time to do it." "Nothing pains me more, frankly, than to see one of the most technologically...
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Now, of course, we're going to make energy more and more efficient. We're going to make every single industry more efficient, but you need energy. The world, as you know, there's no... So, I've been going to Germany for a very long time. The automotive industry has been close to my heart. We've been working with the manufacturing industry and the automotive industry for almost 30 years. Nothing pains me more, frankly, than to see one of the most technologically advanced countries be left so far behind in technology. And I think the reason for that is this: maybe it's the European way to overthink everything.
And so, I think one, Germany has so much talent. Just get to work. Instead of looking for ways not to do something, you should be looking for ways to do something. And so every single day, I look for reasons to get up. So I hope that one of the things that we can do together — this is a reset.
If you look at Europe, the whole IT industry happened in the United States. Even though the technology was created here in the UK, the computer industry was largely created here in the UK, the internet was created largely in the UK. And so even though in the last 50 years the United States took advantage of the IT industry and really took off — the economy took off, everything took off — remember, artificial intelligence is a complete reset. It's basically all back to ground zero. You're at exactly the same place as anybody else. If Germany wants to use this opportunity to take advantage of the computer industry and leapfrog it, this is the time to do it. Don't squander this opportunity. The next one, of course, is 30, 40 years away. We don't know what that 30, 40 years away is going to be, but it's going to be 30, 40 years away. And we know that this technology is vital, too vital. You cannot squander this opportunity. It's partly the reason why I'm here. I believe in you guys.
Okay. I'd love to. All right. Anything else?
Now, of course, we're going to make energy more and more efficient. We're going to make every single industry more efficient, but you need energy. The world, as you know, there's no... So, I've been going to Germany for a very long time. The automotive industry has been close to my heart. We've been working with the manufacturing industry and the automotive industry for almost 30 years. Nothing pains me more, frankly, than to see one of the most technologically advanced countries be left so far behind in technology. And I think the reason for that is this: maybe it's the European way to overthink everything.
And so, I think one, Germany has so much talent. Just get to work. Instead of looking for ways not to do something, you should be looking for ways to do something. And so every single day, I look for reasons to get up. So I hope that one of the things that we can do together — this is a reset.
If you look at Europe, the whole IT industry happened in the United States. Even though the technology was created here in the UK, the computer industry was largely created here in the UK, the internet was created largely in the UK. And so even though in the last 50 years the United States took advantage of the IT industry and really took off — the economy took off, everything took off — remember, artificial intelligence is a complete reset. It's basically all back to ground zero. You're at exactly the same place as anybody else. If Germany wants to use this opportunity to take advantage of the computer industry and leapfrog it, this is the time to do it. Don't squander this opportunity. The next one, of course, is 30, 40 years away. We don't know what that 30, 40 years away is going to be, but it's going to be 30, 40 years away. And we know that this technology is vital, too vital. You cannot squander this opportunity. It's partly the reason why I'm here. I believe in you guys.
Okay. I'd love to. All right. Anything else?
Now, of course, we're going to make energy more and more efficient. We're going to make every single industry more efficient, but you need energy. The world, as you know, there's no... So, I've been going to Germany for a very long time. The automotive industry has been close to my heart. We've been working with the manufacturing industry and the automotive industry for almost 30 years. Nothing pains me more, frankly, than to see one of the most technologically advanced countries be left so far behind in technology. And I think the reason for that is this: maybe it's the European way to overthink everything.
And so, I think one, Germany has so much talent. Just get to work. Instead of looking for ways not to do something, you should be looking for ways to do something. And so every single day, I look for reasons to get up. So I hope that one of the things that we can do together — this is a reset.
If you look at Europe, the whole IT industry happened in the United States. Even though the technology was created here in the UK, the computer industry was largely created here in the UK, the internet was created largely in the UK. And so even though in the last 50 years the United States took advantage of the IT industry and really took off — the economy took off, everything took off — remember, artificial intelligence is a complete reset. It's basically all back to ground zero. You're at exactly the same place as anybody else. If Germany wants to use this opportunity to take advantage of the computer industry and leapfrog it, this is the time to do it. Don't squander this opportunity. The next one, of course, is 30, 40 years away. We don't know what that 30, 40 years away is going to be, but it's going to be 30, 40 years away. And we know that this technology is vital, too vital. You cannot squander this opportunity. It's partly the reason why I'm here. I believe in you guys.
Okay. I'd love to. All right. Anything else?

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Huang, J. (2026, October 19). Germany Falling Behind In AI? NVIDIA CEO Huang Urges Berlin To Catch Up In The Global AI Race [Interview transcript]. MIRROR NOW. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3091158/

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Jensen Huang. "Germany Falling Behind In AI? NVIDIA CEO Huang Urges Berlin To Catch Up In The Global AI Race." MIRROR NOW, 19 Oct. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3091158/.

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  title        = {Germany Falling Behind In AI? NVIDIA CEO Huang Urges Berlin To Catch Up In The Global AI Race},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, MIRROR NOW. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {oct},
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