Jensen Huang tells Chancellor Merz that regulation depends on industry growth

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had a pointed message for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: regulation depends on industry growth. Put another way, you need something worth regulating before the rulebook matters. The remark came as Huang and Merz announced a strategic partnership in Berlin aimed at modernizing German industry with AI. What Nvidia and Germany agreed to The two sides unveiled the partnership on October 19, 2026, during the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin. The event ran October 19 to 20 and gathered about 200 business leaders. German authorities and Nvidia signed a letter of intent at the summit to push industrial AI applications forward. Nvidia will supply chips, software, and engineers. The German government will coordinate partners and provide the funding. That funding is anticipated to land in the high hundreds of millions of euros. The goal is to develop specialized, open AI models built for industrial use cases. Computing power will come through the Industrial AI Cloud, which Deutsche Telekom operates using Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs. Roughly a dozen German companies are expected to take part. Siemens and Audi are among the names in the mix. A partnership born fr...