NVIDIA Joins EU Initiative to Widen Scientists' Access to AI Tools and Compute
NVIDIA has joined the European Commission's AI in Science Enablers Initiative, pledging open models, free training materials and routes to European compute for researchers and startups. The initiative was launched at the AI in Science Summit in Dublin and is connected to RAISE, the Resource for AI Science in Europe.
- NVIDIA joined the European Commission's AI in Science Enablers Initiative, launched at the AI in Science Summit in Dublin and linked to RAISE.
- NVIDIA says it has released more than 250 open models, 250 open datasets and over 1,400 open source software projects.
- The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute launched an open source courseware hub that is free, openly licensed and has no enrollment or deadline.
- AI factories in France, Spain and Sweden are opening compute routes for startups and SMEs through NVIDIA Inception.
- NVIDIA says 35 supercomputers are in development in Europe, set to equip over 3 million researchers.
What the initiative is
According to NVIDIA, the European Commission launched the AI in Science Enablers Initiative as a shared framework tied to RAISE. Its aim is to bring private-sector support closer to Europe's research community. NVIDIA says the hardest part of research for smaller labs, early-career scientists and science-based startups is often what comes before the science: assembling tools, finding compute and building the expertise to use both.
NVIDIA's contribution covers five areas: access to accelerated tools, models and platforms; compute, cloud resources, data and scientific resources; skills, training and technical support; collaborative projects and pilots along with support for researchers and talent; and support for startups and ecosystem development.
Ekaterina Zaharieva, European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, said the campaign turns the ambition for AI in science "into concrete commitments that give researchers access to the tools, expertise and resources they need to innovate."
Open models, software and free courseware
NVIDIA says it has released more than 250 open models, 250 open datasets and over 1,400 open source software projects. They span large language models, healthcare, robotics, climate science, physical AI, autonomous vehicles and scientific research, and are available on Hugging Face and GitHub.
Researchers can use NVIDIA Nemotron, a family of architectures, open weights, open source models, training data and recipes, to build agentic reasoning capabilities. Scientific software named in the pledge includes:
- NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit
- NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo libraries
- NVIDIA Earth-2 models
- NVIDIA ALCHEMI NIM microservices
These target fields from biology and chemistry to weather and climate, energy, engineering, physics and material sciences.
On training, the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute has launched an open source courseware hub with hands-on materials on accelerated computing and deep learning. The courses are freely downloadable and openly licensed, with no enrollment, fees or deadline. NVIDIA says they are modular and can be adapted for university curricula, supercomputing center bootcamps or developer community events.
Compute through AI factories and supercomputing centers
NVIDIA says it is working with cloud infrastructure partners and European national AI factories, including in France, Spain and Sweden, to give startups and small and medium-sized enterprises routes to sovereign European compute and services. The NVIDIA Inception program for startups provides compute resources and technical support.
According to NVIDIA, AI2F in France is the first AI factory to have collaborated with Inception, for four months. The BSC AI Factory ran a pilot and is now rolling out its first full accelerator program, with growing interest from other European national AI factories in replicating the model in 2027. Sweden AI Factory, one of Europe's 19 EuroHPC-funded AI factories, announced a collaboration to open its infrastructure and expertise to Inception startups and SMEs in sectors including life and material sciences, autonomous systems and gaming.
EuroHPC supercomputing centers such as CINECA and JSC provide academia and startups with free access to NVIDIA GPU infrastructure and services for open research. NVIDIA adds office hours, bootcamps and hackathons to help researchers fine-tune models on their own datasets. This month it is co-organizing a European AI hackathon with Austrian Scientific Computing, the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and The Cyprus Institute, for Pharos-CY.
Infrastructure buildout and what it means
NVIDIA says it is powering what it calls Europe's most ambitious expansion of AI infrastructure to date, with 35 supercomputers currently in development across the continent. The company describes it as the largest single-year buildout of supercomputing capacity Europe has ever seen, and says the systems will equip over 3 million researchers.
For researchers and startups, the pledge mainly lowers practical barriers: open models and software, free course materials and defined access routes to European compute. Much depends on how the national AI factories and EuroHPC centers carry out their plans, including the 2027 replication of the BSC model that NVIDIA says other AI factories are interested in.
