[Germany Plans Large-Scale AI Collaboration with NVIDIA, Around 12 Companies Including Siemens and Audi to Participate] According to Deep Tide TechFlow, on October 15, Germany's *Handelsblatt* reported, citing informed sources, that the German federal government plans to collaborate on a large scale with U.S. chip designer NVIDIA to promote the widespread application of artificial intelligence in the industrial sector and to catch up in the global AI technology race. The plan has two objectives: first, to lay the foundation for the application of physical AI, a technology that can be used to train robots and autonomous vehicles; second, to train high-performance industrial AI models with international competitiveness. It is reported that the German federal government is willing to invest hundreds of millions of euros to advance this project, with funds allocated for acquiring computing power and training new AI models. NVIDIA is also expected to provide support, including dispatching engineers to participate in the project. *Handelsblatt* has learned that around 12 German companies plan to join the collaboration, including Siemens, Audi, and AI company Black Forest Labs. (Jin10)