Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended Build-A-Claw in Paris, according to a post on X, where developers tested open AI models to build their own AI agents.

Nvidia's own promotional materials for the event series had not confirmed a Huang appearance in Paris. The company has positioned Build-A-Claw as a developer program, keeping the spotlight on the workshops themselves rather than on any single executive.

What Build-A-Claw Actually Is

Build-A-Claw works like a build-your-own workshop for software assistants. Instead of stuffing a teddy bear, attendees assemble autonomous AI agents, which run on OpenClaw, an open-source framework for building agents that handle tasks with minimal human input.

Nvidia's event listing places the Paris session on October 13, 2026, from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Paris sits within a wider European tour that also covers Barcelona, London, and Berlin.

The Paris edition centers on running agents locally on Nvidia hardware, meaning the AI lives on a machine in front of the user rather than on a distant cloud server. Security gets its own layer as well: Nvidia built NemoClaw, a stack that wraps OpenClaw with additional protections aimed at enterprise privacy needs. For enterprise developers, the two pieces fit together — agents that run on hardware in the room, wrapped in protections designed for corporate privacy requirements.

The program is pitched as developer engagement, and the Paris event is focused on workshops rather than big infrastructure announcements.

Huang's Big Bet on OpenClaw

Huang has been unusually vocal about OpenClaw. In March 2026, he described it as potentially “the next ChatGPT.”

He made the case at Nvidia's GTC conference that same month. There, he urged businesses to adopt an “OpenClaw strategy” and pitched personal AI agents that can carry out complex jobs autonomously.

OpenClaw traces its origins to earlier projects known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, which launched as open-source efforts to let developers create agents that manage tasks with little supervision.

Nvidia did not invent the framework. What it has done is build tooling around it, with NemoClaw serving as the enterprise-friendly version that addresses privacy and security concerns.

That context adds a layer to the Paris appearance: the framework Huang has publicly urged businesses to adopt is the same one developers at Build-A-Claw were using to assemble their agents.

Why Europe, and Why France

The Build-A-Claw tour fits into a broader Nvidia effort to position France as a key hub for AI development in Europe. Paris gets a session alongside three other major European cities.

The Paris edition's focus on local execution of AI agents on Nvidia hardware also has an obvious commercial logic. Every developer who builds an agent on a local Nvidia machine is, by design, a developer building on Nvidia's chips.

Barcelona, London, and Berlin round out the tour's European stops, extending the same build-your-own-agent format to three more cities.