Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief government officer of Nvidia, on the London Tech Week exposition in London, UK, on Monday, June 9, 2025.
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LONDON — Wherever Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang goes, pleasure follows — this time, all the best way to London Tech Week.
The Nvidia boss — whom Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives dubs the “godfather of AI” — is extra like a rockstar nowadays, given his wide-spanning impact on the AI business.
“The quantity of infrastructure required for AI would not be attainable with out that man,” one attendee at London Tech Week mentioned.
“He is like Iron Man,” the attendee added, referencing the favored Marvel superhero who’s a tech billionaire inventor underneath the identify of Tony Stark.
Floods of individuals crowded exterior the principle stage at London Tech Week as they tried to get in for Nvidia boss Jensen Huang’s discuss.
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The strains to get into the Olympia auditorium have been already constructing round 40 minutes earlier than Jensen was set to take the stage alongside U.Ok. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Not everybody managed to get in — however there have been helpfully screens across the venue the place folks might catch a glimpse of Huang’s discuss.
Folks sat at different levels within the venue to observe Nvidia’s CEO talking with U.Ok. PM Keir Starmer as there wasn’t sufficient room within the keynote stage.
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The Nvidia CEO gave his continued bullish evaluation of synthetic intelligence, calling it an “unimaginable know-how” and saying it needs to be seen as infrastructure, identical to electrical energy.
UK will get glowing endorsement from Huang
There weren’t any multi-billion greenback investments touted at London Tech Week. However the largest win for Starmer and the U.Ok. by far was Huang’s lavish reward for the nation.
Sporting his trademark leather-based jacket, Huang known as the U.Ok. the “envy of the world” that’s within the midst of a “Goldilocks circumstance,” boasting a vibrant enterprise capital ecosystem, in addition to budding AI entrepreneurs from main companies together with Google DeepMind, Synthesia, Wayve and ElevenLabs.
Talking alongside Huang, Starmer spoke in an animated method as he touted Nvidia’s investments within the U.Ok. Earlier within the day, the U.S. chipmaker introduced a brand new “U.Ok. sovereign AI business discussion board,” in addition to commitments from cloud distributors Nscale and Nebius to deploy new services containing 1000’s of its Blackwell GPU chips.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talking at London Tech Week 2025.
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Starmer spoke at size about AI’s promise and the methods during which it might ease the burdens confronted by the U.Ok.’s public sector establishments, from hospitals to colleges.
Huang added that the U.Ok. is “such an ideal place to speculate,” noting that Nvidia plans to companion with the nation to upskill tech employees and construct out home AI infrastructure.
“Infrastructure permits extra analysis — extra analysis, extra breakthroughs, extra firms,” the Nvidia chief mentioned. “That flywheel will begin taking off. It is already fairly massive, however we’re simply going to get that flywheel going.”
Starmer thanked Huang for his level, commenting that “the boldness it offers while you clarify it that approach is big.”
“From our standpoint, we’re actually happy to be seen that approach,” the U.Ok. chief mentioned.
The pair shook arms on the finish.
Altogether, there was lots of power within the room. Huang mentioned he was “excited” for London Tech Week, and he was met with a spherical of applause from the viewers.
Europe needs a chunk of Huang
Huang has develop into the CEO everybody needs to be seen with. Nvidia has positioned itself as central to the AI revolution, which many commentators say is within the early innings.
Nvidia needs that revolution to be constructed on its chips. And for nations just like the U.Ok., these moments provide an opportunity for the nation to tout its funding potential and for its chief to publicly share a stage with the person seen as powering the AI push.
London was Huang’s first cease in a broader European tour.
The Nvidia boss will journey to Paris later this week, the place the chipmaker will host its GTC convention. Politicians together with President Emmanuel Macron, who has pushed France’s ambition to develop into a European AI hub, may even doubtless need some face time with Huang.
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