Nvidia's Huang May Have Won China Reprieve
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How an engineer turned tech mogul became the most influential voice in AI and a key figure in Trump’s trade diplomacy with China.
Huang is now richer than LVMH’s Bernard Arnault ($147.9 billion) and just behind Google co-founder Larry Page ($150.6 billion).
Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang spent months telling everyone what a grave mistake the US was making restricting shipments of artificial intelligence processors to China — with little sign that his argument was swaying anyone.
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They don’t need Nvidia’s chips … to build their military,” Jensen Huang said in a CNN interview aired Sunday, days ahead of another trip to China.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hailed Chinese AI models like DeepSeek as world-class, adding that AI is ‘fundamental infrastructure’ akin to electricity. Speaking in Beijing, he called China's open-source AI a ‘catalyst for global progress’.
The sales resumption of Nvidia's H20 processors and Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) MI308 chips in China is expected to ease the anxiety of local artificial intelligence companies, according to analysts.