China, NVIDIA and AI
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China's top leadership has recently pledged to curb "involutionary" competition amid intense price wars in the country.
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang says the technology giant has won approval from the Trump administration to sell its advanced H20 computer chips used for artificial intelligence to China.
The U.S. House Select Committee on China has expressed concerns about the Trump administration's decision to allow Nvidia ( NASDAQ: NVDA) to resume shipments of its H20 AI chips to China.
The rollout is expected to include pushing for speedier permitting for data center buildouts and promoting US tech exports.
But the fact that America or China will win this contest should not turn other countries into mere spectators. Even more important for their economies and societies is the other AI race, the one for “everyday AI ”: the deployment and diffusion of the technology across the whole of the nation.
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David Sacks said this would "deprive Huawei of basically having this giant market share in China."
Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick said the US’s reversal of restrictions on sales of chips to China followed recent trade negotiations with Beijing over rare earths. President Donald Trump curbed exports of Nvidia’s H2O artificial intelligence chips to China in April as part of an escalation of his trade war with Beijing.
China has invested billions into its artificial intelligence ambitions, aiming to be a leader in the global tech landscape. At the Beyond Expo in Macao, CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout explores the country’s latest breakthroughs and its growing influence in the world of AI.
Washington has been concerned China could use Nvidia’s chips to get a jump on the U.S. in high-tech fields, particularly when it comes to artificial intelligence.
Critics have slammed the White House's anticipated move to loosen AI chip exports as ceding leverage to the U.S. rival.