Nvidia, Perplexity partner with European firms to boost local AI models

Nvidia and artificial intelligence search firm Perplexity on Wednesday said they are partnering with more than a dozen AI firms in Europe and the Middle East to refine those firms’ AI technologies and distribute them to local businesses.

Nvidia said it will work with model makers in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden to help make AI models in local languages become what are called reasoning models, which are capable of carrying out more complicated tasks.

AI technologies built in English and Chinese have started to shift to that…