Germany is building on a long history of engineering innovation with new AI investments poised to transform the country’s economy — including the automotive, banking, manufacturing and robotics industries.
The country is deploying tens of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs to power AI factories that generate intelligence for businesses and researchers, optimized AI software to run agentic and reasoning models for enterprises, and physical AI technologies for next-generation cars and robots.
Industry leaders, startups and research institutions are highlighting these and other initiatives at ISC High Performance and NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech this week.
Advanced AI Factory Infrastructure for Researchers, Enterprises
AI factories coming online across Germany will support the development of sovereign AI applications in the public and private sectors — including for the country’s small- and medium-size companies, known as the Mittelstand. The Mittelstand accounts for 99% of all enterprises in Germany and over half of the country’s economic output.
NVIDIA is building the world’s first industrial AI cloud for European manufacturers, based in Germany. Powered by NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers featuring 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, this AI factory will enable Europe’s industrial leaders to accelerate manufacturing applications including design, engineering, simulation, digital twins and robotics.
The AI factory will be built following the framework of the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory design and operations. It will run NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries as well as NVIDIA RTX and NVIDIA Omniverse-accelerated workloads.
Also in Germany, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre hosts JUPITER, a supercomputer that will be Europe’s first exascale system. Featuring about 24,000 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, JUPITER will double the computing capacity of the continent’s previous most powerful publicly available supercomputer.
Using NVIDIA AI platforms, the system will enable researchers to train massive large language models (LLMs) with over 100 billion parameters, increase the spatial resolution of climate and weather simulations, advance quantum computing research and streamline the creation of AI models for drug discovery.
Another German research supercomputer, Blue Lion, will run on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin architecture, NVIDIA’s upcoming AI platform. Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise for the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ), it’s expected to go live in the second half of 2026 to accelerate climate, physics and machine learning workflows.
Enterprises and Startups Build Accelerated AI for Every Industry
German companies — of all sizes and in nearly every field — are using NVIDIA technologies to unlock new AI capabilities and levels of acceleration.
DeepL, in Cologne, is one of the leading language AI companies, with over 10 million monthly active users. To accelerate its AI development, the company is deploying an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 systems, which will enable it to translate all content on the internet in just over 18 days — a task that currently takes them 194 days of nonstop data processing.
“As a leader in language AI, we rely on strong compute infrastructure to support research and development,” said Jarek Kutylowsky, CEO and founder of DeepL. “The NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD system will enable us to enhance current and future products with the latest AI advancements and unlock new generative capabilities for our customers.”
Black Forest Labs, a leading generative AI startup based in Freiburg, Germany, developed the FLUX.1 AI model suite for text-to-image generation, including the state-of-the-art models FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] and FLUX1.1 [pro]. Its open-weights FLUX.1-dev image generator is included in the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for 3D-guided generative AI.
German robotics and automation companies — including Agile Robots, idealworks, Neura Robotics and sensor solution company SICK — are integrating the NVIDIA Isaac platform for training, simulating and deploying robots and sensing solutions.
Finanz Informatik, the digitalization partner of the German Savings Banks Finance Group, is systematically continuing the expansion and further development of its AI infrastructure in collaboration with NVIDIA by using NVIDIA AI infrastructure and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to develop an AI assistant that will help employees and efficiently process banking data.
In automotive, Mercedes-Benz is using Omniverse to create digital twins of its factories. In addition, its latest CLA sedan, launching now in Europe, is using NVIDIA’s full-stack DRIVE AV software running on the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX platform.
Others using NVIDIA technology are German automaker BMW Group and automotive supplier Continental. Motion technology company Schaeffler Group will use Omniverse to optimize robot-assisted manufacturing processes for automotive and industrial development.
German enterprises adopting NVIDIA AI also include supply chain solutions company KION Group, legal AI startup Noxtua and cybersecurity company secunet Security Networks AG.
AI Upskilling Trains Next Generation of Developers
To spark an AI transformation at every level of a country’s economy, it needs a vast community of AI developers.
That’s why Germany’s investing in AI education and upskilling through nonprofits, university and industry collaborations.
One such effort is led by appliedAI, Europe’s largest initiative for the application of trusted AI, which recently launched a dedicated program for small and medium-sized German enterprises. The initiative aims to lower the threshold for AI adoption by providing smaller companies with access to state-of-the-art NVIDIA infrastructure and software — including NVIDIA AI Enterprise — as well as strategic guidance, hands-on training and connection to a broad ecosystem of partners.
A key focus of the program is to support the scalable deployment of agentic AI systems capable of reasoning, planning and autonomous action.
“The key to scaling AI in Germany lies in enabling our small- and medium-size enterprises,” said Andreas Liebl, CEO of appliedAI. “With this new program, launched in close collaboration with NVIDIA, we are democratizing access to world-class AI technology and supporting Germany’s economic backbone in mastering the digital transformation in a way that’s sovereign, sustainable and scalable.”
In academic partnerships, NVIDIA is a technology partner for LRZ and Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, a research university that offers developers access to NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure with user support, including workflow guidance and training. Both institutions have upskilled thousands of students and researchers through nearly 100 instructor-led workshops from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute.
NVIDIA is also establishing a research center in Germany as part of the NVIDIA AI Technology Center program. The Bavarian AI hub, intended to be established in collaboration with the BayernKI consortium, will advance research in fields including digital medicine, stable diffusion AI and open-source robotics platforms to foster global collaboration.
Germany’s enterprises and systems integrators, too, are making it easier for anyone to harness AI acceleration.
SAP is working with NVIDIA to integrate NVIDIA NIM microservices, including the new universal LLM NIM microservice, into its AI Foundation. Systems integrators including Accenture, adesso, Deloitte, Materna and T-Systems offer customers tools to support the development and deployment of AI applications using NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platforms.
Watch the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote from NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang at VivaTech, and explore GTC Paris sessions.
