Nvidia, Perplexity to partner with EU and Middle East AI firms to build sovereign LLMs – Computerworld

Nvidia and AI search firm Perplexity said they are joining hands with model builders and cloud providers across Europe and the Middle East to refine sovereign large-language models (LLMs) and accelerate enterprise AI uptake in local industries.

Under the deal, model builders and AI consortia from the region will fine-tune their language models with Nvidia’s Nemotron techniques, a move the company says will slash costs and boost accuracy for enterprise tasks, including emerging agentic AI.

Some of the model builders and AI consortia that Nvidia and Perplexity will be working with include Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Bielik.AI, Dicta, H Company, Domyn, LightOn, the National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS) together with KBLab at the National Library of Sweden, the Slovak Republic, the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the University College of London, the University of Ljubljana and UTTER.

The models will be trained and run on servers within Europe supplied by Nvidia Cloud Partners through the DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace, Nvidia said in a statement.