NVIDIA and the Danish government have partnered to launch the country’s largest sovereign AI supercomputer, designed for breakthroughs in quantum computing, clean energy, biotechnology, and other areas.

Named Gefion, the supercomputer is an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD driven by 1,528 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and interconnected using NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. Gefion is operated by the Danish Center for AI Innovation (DCAI).

“Gefion is going to be a factory of intelligence. This is a new industry that never existed before. It sits on top of the IT industry. We’re inventing something fundamentally new,” CEO Jensen Huang said.

With the launch of Gefion, Denmark reaches a critical milestone in establishing its own sovereign AI. 

“What country can afford not to have this infrastructure, just as every country realizes you have communications, transportation, healthcare, fundamental infrastructures — the fundamental infrastructure of any country surely must be the manufacturer of intelligence,” said Huang. “For Denmark to be one of the handful of countries in the world that has now initiated this vision is really incredible.”

Notably, Gefion is expected to address global challenges with insights into infectious disease, climate change, and food security. It is now being prepared for users, and a pilot phase will bring in projects that seek to leverage AI to accelerate progress, including areas such as quantum computing, drug discovery, and energy efficiency.