公司计划在下周宣布20亿美元的欧洲投资，首席执行官黄仁勋在巴黎举行的活动中表示，此次活动是其欧洲之行的第一天，随后他还将前往伦敦和柏林。
Corp. is planning to announce $2 billion in European investments in the next week, Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said at an event in Paris on the first day of a tour that will also bring him to London and Berlin.
黄仁勋周二表示，这笔投资将使公司在过去一年内对欧洲的投资总额达到80亿美元。他还宣布了对法国初创公司Doctolib、Genesis AI、Pigment和Entalpic的新一轮融资。
That adds to the $8 billion the company has put into the continent in the last year, Huang said Tuesday. He also announced new funding in French startups Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment and Entalpic.
黄仁勋是全球市值最高的公司以及人工智能热潮核心芯片的最大制造商的负责人，他承诺在全球范围内投入数千亿美元，以加速人工智能技术及其产品的普及。他此次来到欧洲之际，该技术正面临日益增长的公众反对。从人工智能模型失控到耗能数据中心的环境影响，各种担忧正在推动人们呼吁限制人工智能的发展。欧洲和英国一直在努力发挥作用，以保护世界免受其可能造成的危害。“欧洲需要参与这场竞赛，”黄仁勋在活动中表示。
Huang, who is head of the world’s most valuable company and the biggest maker of the chips at the center of the AI boom, has pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in investments worldwide to speed up the adoption of the technology and its products. He arrives to the continent as the technology is facing increasing popular backlash. Concerns, ranging from AI models going rogue to the environmental impact of power-hungry data centers, are fueling calls to rein in development. Europe and the UK have sought to play a role in safeguarding the world against its possible harms. “Europe needs to get in the race,” Huang said at the event.
黄仁勋一直在反对放慢人工智能发展的呼声，他认为人工智能将提振经济，并且可以安全地进行。一些人工智能公司的负责人，包括Anthropic PBC首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊和OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼，正在考虑如何调节人工智能的发展步伐，此前几起由代理引发的高调安全事件引发了担忧。
Huang has pushed back against calls to slow the development of AI, which he said will boost the economy and can be done safely. The heads of some of the AI companies, including Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI chief Sam Altman, are considering how to pace AI development after several high-profile breaches caused by agents.
英伟达的创始人还推广了开源模型，称其使用成本更低且更具适应性，这是欧洲赶上美国更先进人工智能的一种途径。英伟达是法国Mistral AI的重要合作伙伴，该公司专注于设计开放权重的人工智能。英伟达曾投资Mistral，并为其数据中心提供加速器。Mistral的最新模型是在4000颗Grace Blackwell芯片上训练的。
Nvidia’s founder also pitched open-source models, which can be cheaper to use and more adaptable, as a way for Europe to catch up to more advanced AI in the US. Nvidia is a key partner to France’s Mistral AI, which designs open-weight AI. The chip designer invested in Mistral and is providing accelerators for the startup’s data centers. Mistral’s latest model was trained on 4,000 Grace Blackwell chips.
“开放模型很重要，因为它们可以根据语言和自身主权进行定制，”他说。
“Open models are important as they can be customized for languages and for your own sovereignty,” he said.
黄近期的投资推动了开源模型的创建和采用。他希望扩大人工智能在全球经济中的应用，减少对少数几家大型公司产品的依赖。
Huang has pushed the creation and adoption of open source models in recent investments. He wants to broaden the use of AI across the global economy and lessen dependence on the products of a small group of very large companies.
Doctolib 是法国最知名的初创公司之一。该公司成立于2013年，负责处理医生和医护人员的行政工作，已成为许多欧洲患者预约就诊的常用平台。
Doctolib is one of France’s best-known startups. Founded in 2013, it handles administrative work for doctors and medical workers and has become a staple for many European patients to book appointments.
今年早些时候，公司员工和早期投资者出售了价值约3亿欧元（3.45亿美元）的股份。彭博社报道称，此次二级市场股权出售使得 Doctolib 的估值达到36亿欧元，相比其2022年在完成股权融资后披露的58亿欧元估值，折扣幅度较大。
Earlier this year, employees and early investors sold shares in the company worth about €300 million ($345 million). Bloomberg reported that the secondary share sale valued Doctolib at €3.6 billion, a steep discount compared to its last disclosed valuation of €5.8 billion in 2022 following an equity raise.
Pigment 开发基于人工智能的商业软件，而 Entalpic 则利用人工智能进行化学和材料研究。
Pigment develops AI-powered business software, while Entalpic uses AI for chemistry and materials research.
Genesis 专注于机器人领域的人工智能。英伟达的领导者曾预测，以人形机器人形式出现的物理人工智能将成为他技术下一个巨大的市场。
Genesis focuses on AI for robots. Nvidia’s leader has predicted that physical AI, in the form of humanoid robots, will be the next giant market for his technology.