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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to Meet President Donald Trump at the White House
Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, whose business creates and provides the cutting-edge computer chips that are essential to the development of artificial intelligence, is meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House.
In January, Nvidia had vocally opposed a last-minute decision by the Biden administration to extend restrictions on AI chips to more than 100 nations, including Singapore, in addition to China and other enemies. However, it's unclear if Trump will implement or abandon those suggested regulations.
On his first day in office last week, Trump signed an order stating that his administration will "identify and eliminate loopholes in existing export controls," suggesting that he would stick with and toughen Biden's strategy.
In addition to relying on AI to boost economic growth and attract hundreds of billions of dollars in investments, the Republican president also interpreted China's DeepSeek AI technology's performance as evidence that the technology might be produced more affordably.
On his first day in office last week, Trump signed an order stating that his administration will "identify and eliminate loopholes in existing export controls," suggesting that he would stick with and toughen Biden's strategy.
Trump said it was a "wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win."
According to DeepSeek, Nvidia's less powerful H800 chips—which are legal in China—were used to build its most recent models. After releasing a new AI model last month that it claimed was comparable to models from American companies like ChatGPT maker OpenAI and was more economical in its use of pricey Nvidia chips to train the system on massive amounts of data, DeepSeek started to garner more attention in the AI industry. When the chatbot first surfaced on the Google and Apple app stores earlier this year, it became more widely available.
Trump's meeting with Huang coincides with a special House committee on combating China members calling on Trump's top security advisor, Michael Waltz, to think about the possible national security advantages of imposing export restrictions on Nvidia semiconductor processors, which DeepSeek uses. On his first day in office, Trump instructed the secretaries of State and Commerce to examine the U.S. export control system, and they indicated the examination should be a part of that assessment.
