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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Announces Partnership with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced a strategic partnership in Berlin aimed at modernizing German industry with AI. The partnership, unveiled during the Invest in Germany Summit on October 19, 2026, involves Nvidia supplying chips, software, and engineers, while the German government will coordinate partners and provide funding. The goal is to develop specialized, open AI models for industrial use cases using the Industrial AI Cloud, operated by Deutsche Telekom with Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs. The arrangement builds on earlier groundwork, including the 2025 launch of the Industrial AI Cloud project by Deutsche Telekom and Nvidia.