"To be part of this AI economy, you don't want to just be consuming the AI. You want to be producing the AI," he told the 4,000-strong crowd at Nvidia's GTC. "We can do all of that here in Europe."
The last GTC, held in San Jose, California, in March, was all about AI inference and more efficient compute. Seven months later, the focus has switched to power, agents, and physical AI. There were even some cute little Microduck robots—made by recent Nvidia acquisition Hugging Face —doing Huang's bidding at the end of his 90-minute pitch
Huang's first big announcement was a modular "AI factory" called the DSX Pod. It is a "plug-and-play" option for building AI data centers, with everything arriving already assembled in a large metal container and packed with Nvidia's latest Vera Rubin compute racks. It can be brought online in 14 days, instead of taking months or years to construct. That may come in especially handy in Europe, where infrastructure projects are notoriously slow. Huang said the DSX Pod would also slash the amount of time compute sits idle in a data center as it will come online quicker. "This is a complete transformation," he said
