Nvidia to Build AI Factory With Swedish Business Consortium

Swedish industry giants like AstraZeneca, Ericsson, Saab, SEB and Wallenberg Investments are set to tap into new sovereign AI infrastructure spearheaded by Nvidia.

The semiconductor leader unveiled plans last week to build new AI infrastructure with a range of businesses in Sweden with its accelerating computing, networking and software. Their goal is to transform and prepare the country’s leading industries for the age of AI by investing in joint research and upskilling opportunities. 

“Investing in cutting-edge AI infrastructure is a crucial step toward accelerating the development and adoption of AI across Swedish industry,” shares Marcus Wallenberg, Chair of Wallenberg Investments.

“We believe this initiative will generate valuable spillover effects—by enabling upskilling, fostering new collaborations and strengthening the broader national AI ecosystem.”

Exploring the use cases

AstraZeneca 

The biopharmaceutical company will use the new system to lead 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.

Ericsson

As a telco, Ericsson will leverage its data science expertise to develop and deploy state-of-the-art AI models – improving performance and efficiency and enhancing customer experience. 

By harnessing AI even further, Ericsson hopes to enable new business models and use cases for the billions of end-users that it serves.

Saab

Saab is set to deploy AI methodology to accelerate the development of new state-of-the-art defence capabilities, which will combine advanced AI applications with Saab’s products and platforms.

SEB

Using AI as a central part in its ambition to drive productivity enhancement, SEB will power new customer offerings and future-proof the bank. 

The company says that securing access to critical infrastructure is a strategically important part of this ambition.

Fuelling the digital age in Sweden

The aforementioned leading companies in Sweden, in partnership with Wallenberg Investments, will build an AI system that will be operated by a joint company to offer secure and sovereign compute.

It has been said by the companies that the main intention of the project’s first phase will be to deploy two NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs featuring Nvidia’s latest generation Grace Blackwell GB300 systems. This will make it the largest enterprise AI supercomputer in Sweden once operational. 

Used to run compute-heavy AI workloads, the supercomputer hopes to speed up processes such as training domain specific AI models and large-scale inference like reasoning AI.

“As electricity powered the industrial age and the Internet fuelled the digital age, AI is the engine of the next industrial revolution,” explains Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang.

When it comes to AI Factories – specialised computing infrastructure that manages the entire AI life cycle – Nvidia has been making significant strides.

The company has already planned to build AI supercomputers solely in the US, amid potential disruption by tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump. With this in mind, Nvidia is prioritising partnerships in order to accelerate AI supercomputing worldwide, with AI factories hoping to meet surging demand for the infrastructure. 

Within Sweden, it is working with the business consortium to drive new AI innovation across Sweden, particularly by building AI competence across industries and fostering knowledge sharing.

To support this, Nvidia plans to establish its first AI Technology Center in Sweden to advance world-class AI research together with the industry partners. The company will also offer access to its experts and hands-on Deep Learning Institute training to upskill AI talent.

Jensen adds: “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.”

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