Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Urges Europe to Accelerate Industry-Wide AI Adoption

On October 21, 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged European businesses and industries to adopt artificial intelligence more quickly during an address at the GTC conference in Berlin. Striking a bullish note, Huang maintained a strong sense of optimism even as some investors grow increasingly skeptical about the massive sums of money being poured into the underlying infrastructure of the technology. During the event, Huang revisited his five-layer cake theory for AI, which categorizes artificial intelligence from bottom to top into energy, chips, infrastructure, models, and applications, emphasizing that AI functions as a foundational industrial infrastructure akin to electricity and the internet. Furthermore, he noted that all telecom operators will provide AI computing power in the future, with telecom base stations expected to evolve into distributed AI networks. Huang also highlighted various players across the ecosystem, ranging from energy firms like Siemens Energy and Schneider Electric to AI factory builders such as Nscale and Firebird, alongside European AI model makers like Mistral, legal AI firm Legora, and translation tool DeepL.