"I invested here the Most" Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Tells Merz about his investment | AI1Z

📅 Oct 19, 2026 News Central 8 MIN 8 VIEWS 20 SEGMENTS · 3 SPEAKERS

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz during the “Invest in Germany Summit” in Berlin. During their talks, Huang tells Merz that no company has invested more in Germany than Nvidia, highlighting the company's role in Germany's technology and investment landscape. #JensenHuang #NVIDIA #FriedrichMerz #Germany #Berlin #InvestInGermany #InvestmentSummit #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GermanEconomy #BusinessNews #TechNews #WorldNews Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, Friedrich Merz, Nvidia investment in Germany, Jensen Huang tells Merz, Invest in Germany Summit, N...

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0:04Well, Chancellor, if you could swap jobs with Jensen for just a day, what would you do first, you think?
0:19Would you like to go there?
1:56What is this going to look like?
3:29Could you perhaps share a few concrete examples of how you and the German government are ensuring that this widespread deployment is actually taking place?

Jensen Huang 0:00 ↗

For our fireside chat.

Interviewer 0:04 ↗

Also, also a bartender. Well, Chancellor, if you could swap jobs with Jensen for just a day, what would you do first, you think?

Karl Lauterbach 0:19 ↗

Oh, that's a great idea to swap the jobs. Would you like to go there?

Jensen Huang 0:24 ↗

No.

Karl Lauterbach 0:25 ↗

Well, thank you. I give you my answer. I rather would put my leather jacket on. I would take a flight to Berlin. I would like to see the German Chancellor and I would tell him I'm ready to invest.

Jensen Huang 0:45 ↗

Well, that's exactly what I'm doing.

Karl Lauterbach 0:49 ↗

I think you could arrange a meeting.

Jensen Huang 0:52 ↗

No, nobody has invested more in Germany.

Karl Lauterbach 0:55 ↗

Thank you for that. We are really grateful. Thank you for doing this and this is a great signal for our country. Thank you.

Jensen Huang 1:01 ↗

Thank you. You know, NVIDIA's story and Germany's story played a very large role. In fact, in the year 2000, NVIDIA was a consumer-oriented technology. We were only building for PC gaming. And it was a company in Germany, Elsa, that partnership led us into workstations, which led us into all of the car companies. And today we work with the car companies from styling, design, engineering, simulation, manufacturing all the way out to the cars. It was in 2005 that Audi brought us into the car industry inside the car. And it was 2023. Was it 2023 or 2020? Yeah, 2020 that Ola and I established a partnership to build autonomous vehicles. And so Germany and NVIDIA has been very close for a long time.

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Key Quotes (2)

“The data of Germany is part of your natural resources. It belongs to the nation. The data of your country is your culture, your values, your knowledge, your experience. It's your natural resource. It belongs to the nation. And you're absolutely right that you should import the technology to harvest that data and turn it into your national intelligence. But you should not export your culture, expor”

▶ 6:05 POLICY

“The next wave of AI is physical AI. This is where AI interacts with the physical world. Robotics, manufacturing, cars, heavy industry that will never be replaced by digital technology. The work that you know belongs that knowledge belongs to you. The expertise of your domain that belongs to you. Artificial general intelligence will never replace domain expertise. You could be as smart of a general”

▶ 7:17 POLICY

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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has been active in promoting AI infrastructure development and advocating for sovereign AI capabilities. During a visit to Sweden for the launch of the Sferical One supercomputer, he urged European countries to build domestic AI industries, stating, "There's no reason why you export the data to import the intelligence," and emphasized the importance of controlling data as a natural resource. He also discussed AI safety, arguing that open-source models are safer due to their transparency and that safety requires technology and engineering solutions rather than laws alone. Huang said Nvidia would stop selling chips to customers developing unsafe AI applications, while also describing AI as "just a piece of software" that is not sentient. Huang has also engaged in public appearances and partnerships, including a Microsoft event with CEO Satya Nadella unveiling the Surface Laptop Ultra and discussing "hybrid intelligence" that moves AI workloads between devices and the cloud. He received the Van Fleet Award from The Korea Society, where he spoke about the "largest industrial infrastructure buildout in history" and the need to build AI responsibly. In conversations with Lex Fridman during a Taiwan visit, Huang discussed Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem, Nvidia's local engineering team, and his personal memories of night markets. He also commented on AI demand, stating that supply currently exceeds demand and that the industry is in a multi-year infrastructure buildout.

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