— Cathy Li, head of the Centre for AI Excellence, pointed to Europe as a model, praising the continent's cross-border AI partnerships among member states. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of chip giant Nvidia, told the forum that AI is "exciting for Europe" because of its "incredibly strong manufacturing base" for building AI infrastructure. Huang described this as Europe's moment to "leapfrog" the software era, calling robotics a "once in a lifetime opportunity" for the continent.
— One of the other major challenges for AI — not just for Europe — will be energy. Data centres, which power AI systems, require massive amounts of electricity to operate. This infrastructure is so important that Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella declared in Davos that energy costs will be the major factor in deciding which country wins the AI race.
— Artificial intelligence (AI) has infiltrated nearly every conversation at Davos 2026, rivalling the prominence of traditional hot-button issues such as trade tariffs, international competition, and geopolitical tensions. 'Once in a lifetime opportunity for Europe' — Jensen Huang, Nvidia. "We as a global community have to get to a point where we are using [AI] to do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries" — Satya Nadella, Microsoft. The most intelligent entities on the planet can also be the most deluded' — Yuval Harari. 'Not selling chips to China is one of the biggest things we can do' — Dario Amodei, Anthropic. ' More meaningful jobs created' — Demis Hassibis, Google DeepMind. "Many people interact with them with the false belief that they [AI] are like us." — Yoshua Bengio.
— OpenAI gained between $65.5 ?billion and $109.4 billion from the billionaire entrepreneur's ?contributions when he was co-founding what was then a startup from 2015, while Microsoft gained between $13.3 billion and $25.1 billion, Musk said in the federal court filing ahead of his trial against the two companies. "Without Elon Musk, there'd be no OpenAI. He provided the bulk of ?the ?seed funding, lent his reputation, and taught them all he knows about scaling a business. A pre-eminent expert quantified the value of that," Musk's lead trial lawyer Steven Molo said in a statement to Reuters.
— Gates highlighted that the next big challenge will be the disruption to the job market. He said the pace of growth of AI was already disrupting the job demand in areas like software development.
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