NVIDIA Joins Europe’s AI Science Initiative
- •European Commission launches AI in Science Enablers Initiative at Dublin summit; NVIDIA joins campaign
- •NVIDIA cites 250-plus open models, 250 datasets and over 1,400 open source projects
- •35 supercomputers in development across Europe; NVIDIA says they will serve over 3 million researchers
At the AI in Science Summit in Dublin, the European Commission launched the AI in Science Enablers Initiative, a shared framework connected to RAISE (the Resource for AI Science in Europe). NVIDIA joined the campaign, pledging access to accelerated tools, models and platforms; compute, cloud resources, data and scientific resources; training and technical support; collaborative projects and pilots; and support for researchers, talent, startups and ecosystem development. European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation Ekaterina Zaharieva said the campaign turns Europe’s AI-in-science ambition into commitments that give researchers tools, expertise and resources.
NVIDIA says it has released more than 250 open models, 250 open datasets and over 1,400 open source software projects, available on Hugging Face and GitHub. They span large language models, healthcare, robotics, climate science, physical AI, autonomous vehicles and scientific research. Its pledge also points researchers to the NVIDIA Nemotron family, which includes architectures, open weights, models, training data and recipes, and scientific software including BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, PhysicsNeMo libraries, Earth-2 models and ALCHEMI NIM microservices for research in biology, chemistry, molecular design, weather, climate, energy, engineering, physics and materials science.
The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute has launched a freely downloadable, openly licensed courseware hub on accelerated computing and deep learning, with no enrollment, fees or deadline. Its modular courses can be adapted for university curricula, supercomputing bootcamps and developer events, and connect to NVIDIA training and certification programs. NVIDIA is also working with cloud partners and national AI factories in France, Spain and Sweden to expand startups’ and small and medium-sized enterprises’ access to European compute and services. In France, AI2F has worked with NVIDIA Inception for four months. Spain’s BSC AI Factory has moved from a pilot to its first full accelerator program; other national AI factories have expressed interest in replicating the model in 2027. Sweden AI Factory, one of Europe’s 19 EuroHPC-funded AI factories, is opening infrastructure and expertise to Inception startups and SMEs.
EuroHPC centers CINECA and JSC offer academia and startups free access to NVIDIA GPU infrastructure and services for open research. NVIDIA adds office hours, bootcamps and hackathons to help researchers fine-tune models on their datasets. The company is co-organizing a European AI hackathon this month with Austrian Scientific Computing, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and The Cyprus Institute for Pharos-CY. NVIDIA says 35 supercomputers are in development across Europe, the continent’s largest single-year supercomputing capacity buildout, and that the systems will equip over 3 million researchers with infrastructure for work including climate science, drug development and materials research.