NVIDIA maps France's agentic computing push: satellites, sovereign models and quantum links
NVIDIA Blog · rss · 2026-10-13
NVIDIA's blog details how France's ecosystem moved from ambition to application across the full stack.
Sovereign infrastructure
- Bull to produce NVIDIA Vera Rubin Ultra NVL72 servers in Europe (2028), rack-integrated at its new Angers factory
- Altair-1, first satellite of a $1B, 50-satellite constellation, reached orbit with Jetson AGX Orin modules running Mistral models for autonomous Earth observation
Open models
- Twake.ai (Nemotron-based) becomes the sole referenced sovereign digital workplace for 2,500+ French public organizations
- Mistral released Mistral Large 4 open-weight model in private preview
Agents at work
- L'Oréal runs in-silico cosmetic formulation screening with the ALCHEMI Toolkit, targeting 100x faster discovery
- Mirakl onboarded 70M+ products, cutting seller catalog onboarding to under 2 hours
- ThinkDeep/Akila digital twin manages 5,800 km of roads, cutting operating costs 10%
- Alice & Bob and Quandela integrate NVQLink for GPU-assisted quantum error correction
- Bouygues Telecom launched AI Studio V2 letting all employees build agents
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