AI in France: From NVIDIA’s First Chip to AI Factories | NVIDIA
NVIDIA frames AI as essential national infrastructure, positioning France as a key partner in the next industrial revolution
“AI is becoming essential infrastructure like electricity, like the internet. Every company will use it. Every nation will build it.”
NVIDIA's promotional video for France traces the company's 30-year partnership with French industry, from NV1 to AI factories, framing AI as sovereign national infrastructure. The messaging emphasizes AI as a geopolitical necessity — every nation must build it — rather than a corporate product. This 'AI as electricity' framing signals NVIDIA's continued push to position itself as critical public infrastructure globally.