Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke at an investment conference in Berlin alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, urging German automakers and machinery makers to rapidly adopt AI to “re-engineer” the struggling economy using their manufacturing data and engineering expertise. He argued AI will augment rather than replace physical industries such as robotics, manufacturing, cars and heavy industry, saying “electrons will never replace atoms.” Huang warned Germany must act now and urged it to import foreign technology while keeping data and assets at home. The article notes Germany faces weak growth, high energy prices after losing cheap Russian gas, competition from China and excessive bureaucracy, while Europe lags the U.S. in building data centers.
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