France Advances Europe's AI Future With NVIDIA Technologies
NVIDIA Blog8 hours agoBusinessA year after France unveiled its national AI ambitions at NVIDIA GTC Paris during VivaTech, the infrastructure is moving from blueprint to reality. AI factories, national compute capacity, open frontier models, and industrial platforms are coming online. AI agents are now running in production, and French startups are actively deploying applications across the ecosystem.
GPT-NL: A Sovereign Language Model for the Netherlands
Hacker News (AI keywords)2 days agoBusinessGPT-NL is a sovereign large language model initiative led by TNO, the Dutch national research organization, aimed at giving the Netherlands independent AI capabilities free from reliance on foreign — primarily American — cloud providers. The project focuses on Dutch-language performance and domestic data hosting, targeting government, healthcare, legal, and enterprise use cases subject to strict data residency rules. It reflects a broader European push to build competitive, nationally controlled AI infrastructure.