Denmark Launches New Sovereign AI Supercomputer

Denmark launched the country’s largest sovereign AI supercomputer. It aims to achieve breakthroughs in quantum computing, clean energy, biotechnology, and other areas serving Danish society and the world.

The supercomputer, named Gefion after a goddess in Danish mythology, is an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD driven by 1,528 H100 Tensor Core GPUs and interconnected using Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. Gefion is operated by the Danish Center for AI Innovation (DCAI), a company established with funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the world’s wealthiest charitable foundation, and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark. The new AI supercomputer was symbolically turned on by King Frederik X of Denmark, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, and Nadia Carlsten, CEO of DCAI, at an event in Copenhagen.

The Gefion AI supercomputer comes to Copenhagen to serve industry, startups, and academia. The launch of Gefion is an important milestone for Denmark in establishing its own sovereign AI. Sovereign AI can be achieved when a nation can produce artificial intelligence with its own data, workforce, infrastructure, and business networks. Having a supercomputer on national soil provides a foundation for countries to use their own infrastructure as they build AI models and applications that reflect their unique culture and language.

The new supercomputer is expected to address global challenges with insights into infectious disease, climate change, and food security. Gefion is now being prepared for users, and a pilot phase will begin to bring in projects that seek to use AI to accelerate progress, including in areas such as quantum computing, drug discovery, and energy efficiency.