'He’s like Iron Man': Jensen Huang lit up London Tech Week — and we were in the room

LONDON — Wherever Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang goes, excitement follows — this time, each the mode to London Tech Week.

The Nvidia brag — whom Wedbush expert Daniel Ives dubs the "godfather of AI" — is much similar a rockstar these days, fixed his wide-spanning effect connected the AI industry.

"The magnitude of infrastructure required for AI wouldn't beryllium imaginable without that man," 1 attendee astatine London Tech Week said.

"He's similar Iron Man," the attendee added, referencing the fashionable Marvel superhero who is simply a tech billionaire inventor nether the sanction of Tony Stark.

There weren't immoderate multi-billion dollar investments touted astatine London Tech Week. But the biggest triumph for Starmer and the U.K. by acold was Huang's lavish praise for the country.

Wearing his trademark leather jacket, Huang called the U.K. the "envy of the world" that is successful the midst of a "Goldilocks circumstance," boasting a vibrant task superior ecosystem, arsenic good arsenic budding AI entrepreneurs from starring firms including Google DeepMind, Synthesia, Wayve and ElevenLabs.

Speaking alongside Huang, Starmer spoke successful an animated mode arsenic helium touted Nvidia's investments successful the U.K. Earlier successful the day, the U.S. chipmaker announced a caller "U.K. sovereign AI manufacture forum," arsenic good arsenic commitments from unreality vendors Nscale and Nebius to deploy caller facilities containing thousands of its Blackwell GPU chips.

Starmer spoke astatine magnitude astir AI's committedness and the ways successful which it could easiness the burdens faced by the U.K.'s nationalist assemblage institutions, from hospitals to schools.

Huang added that the U.K. is "such a large spot to invest," noting that Nvidia plans to spouse with the state to upskill tech workers and physique retired home AI infrastructure.

"Infrastructure enables much probe — much research, much breakthroughs, much companies," the Nvidia main said. "That flywheel volition commencement taking off. It's already rather large, but we're conscionable going to get that flywheel going."

Starmer thanked Huang for his point, commenting that "the assurance it gives erstwhile you explicate it that mode is huge."

"From our constituent of view, we're truly pleased to beryllium seen that way," the U.K. person said.

The brace shook hands astatine the end.

Altogether, determination was a batch of vigor successful the room. Huang said helium was "excited" for London Tech Week, and helium was met with a circular of applause from the audience.

Huang has go the CEO everyone wants to beryllium seen with. Nvidia has positioned itself arsenic cardinal to the AI revolution, which galore commentators accidental is successful the aboriginal innings.

Nvidia wants that gyration to beryllium built connected its chips. And for countries similar the U.K., these moments supply a accidental for the state to tout its concern imaginable and for its person to publically stock a signifier with the antheral seen arsenic powering the AI push. 

London was Huang's archetypal halt successful a broader European tour.

The Nvidia brag volition question to Paris aboriginal this week, wherever the chipmaker volition big its GTC conference. Politicians including President Emmanuel Macron, who has driven France's ambition to go a European AI hub, volition besides apt privation immoderate look clip with Huang.