Everything Jensen Huang said about China is out the window
Huang spent years warning that China could win the AI race, and that export controls on cutting-edge chips have backfired.
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Across Asia, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang’s techno-optimism that AI should not be another zero-sum game was infectious, the writer says.
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Catherine Thorbecke
No American argued harder for selling AI chips to China than Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang. His recurring advocacy previously could be easily explained by run-of-the-mill self-interest, with billions of dollars at stake. Now, that explanation has suddenly become a lot murkier.
Whether he was wrong or right in what he believed, everything that Huang has spent nearly every public appearance pitching in recent years has gone out the window after reports that he had an affair with a woman US intelligence officials suspect of being a Chinese spy.