For the first time, Fortune analyzed the top companies across the continent in partnership with Statista to find the standouts that are driving progress with success.

Nvidia and AI search firm Perplexity said they are joining hands with model builders and cloud providers across Europe and the Middle East to refine sovereign large-language models (LLMs) and accelerate enterprise AI uptake in local industries.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder — and that seems to be the case with European demand for funds that invest in artificial intelligence. According to Morningstar, the largest market for funds that invest in AI and big data are in Europe,

Wearing his signature biker jacket and mobbed by fans for selfies, the Nvidia CEO cut the figure of a tech rockstar as he took the stage at VivaTech in Paris. “AI is the greatest equalizer of people the world has ever created,” Huang said, kicking off one of Europe’s biggest technology industry fairs.

Mistral on Tuesday launched Europe's first AI reasoning model, which uses logical thinking to create a response, as it tries to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals at the forefront of AI development.

If you’re using personal data to automate choices about people, your processes need to demonstrate both technical diligence and legal awareness.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced an ambitious plan to multiply Europe's AI computing capacity tenfold over the next two years by constructing 20 new "AI factories" in partnership with local tech and telecom companies.

From generative AI to autonomous vehicles, European tech startups are breaking new ground — and grappling with the challenges posed by US tariffs, hostility to the continent's regulatory regime and fierce competition from China.

"The challenge you have with [EU] supercomputers is that they have specific software stacks. If you build commercial applications in the hyperscalers' cloud, it's much easier to move software workloads, while supercomputers get bottlenecked," Voica said.

European telecom provider Zadarma has successfully integrated three of the leading AI-powered voice assistants into its cloud telephony and virtual PBX platform

Mistral AI partners with Nvidia to launch European AI infrastructure platform, challenging US cloud giants while unveiling breakthrough reasoning models that rival OpenAI.