NVIDIA to establish its first AI Technology Centre in Sweden

• 28 May 2025
• TM Team
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NVIDIA plans to establish its first AI Technology Centre in Sweden to drive national digitalisation and AI research conducted by a consortium of Swedish tech players.

The Swedish consortium partners – Ericsson, AstraZeneca, SAAB, SEB and Wallenberg Investments AB – will build a system operated by a joint company to offer secure, sovereign compute access to industry partners.

AstraZeneca plans to use the system to spearhead the next generation of AI enabled drug discovery and development involving methods such as foundation model training, multi-model inference and unique data processing capabilities.

Saab plans to deploy AI methodology to accelerate development of new state-of-the-art defence capabilities.

The intended first phase of the deployment will be two NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs featuring NVIDIA’s latest generation Grace Blackwell GB300 systems, which will make it the largest enterprise AI supercomputer in Sweden once operational.

It is intended to run compute-heavy AI workloads to speed up processes such as training of domain-specific AI models and large-scale inference, including reasoning AI.

“As electricity powered the industrial age and the Internet fueled the digital age, AI is the engine of the next industrial revolution," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.

"Through the visionary initiative of Wallenberg Investments and Sweden’s industry leaders, the country is building its first AI infrastructure—laying the foundation for breakthroughs across science, industry, and society, and securing Sweden’s place at the forefront of the AI era.”

Ericsson Chief Technology Officer, Erik Ekudden, said AI has a key role to play in the network evolution with high-performance programmable and autonomous networks.

"AI and 5G are also critical in the future competitiveness of Sweden, and other countries, by driving innovation, enabling start-ups and delivering new use cases and capabilities," Ekudden said.

"As a company that already invests heavily in AI research and development, Ericsson is looking forward to working with other leading Swedish companies and NVIDIA to ensure Sweden is at the forefront of AI development and benefits.”