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"I am giving you money!" Nvidia's CEO wants every country to build its own AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is crisscrossing Europe with a multibillion-dollar checkbook and a grand ambition: Make his company the indispensable backbone of the global AI economy. Why it matters: As fears of an AI bubble rattle Wall Street, Huang is working to spread the boom beyond the U.S. and China — courting governments, bankrolling startups and cultivating massive new markets for Nvidia's chips. The big picture: The godfather of AI is trying to single-handedly build a new market for Nvidia chi