Name: Jensen Huang: China is not behind the U.S. in AI development
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Number of tech's biggest leaders and CEO was on the hill today.

I'm Emily Wilkins caught up with Jensen Wong on his way in.

Hey, Carl, well yeah, a lot of CEOs on the hill today, a lot of lawmakers speaking with them about AI in the future, which is exactly what brought Jensen Huang here today as well to talk about how the US needs to remain competitive when it comes to AI.

I caught up with him for a few minutes and I asked him a little bit about how tariffs were impacting everything.

There should always be policy that that enables us to supports and accelerate the ability for us to onshore manufacturing.

But with willpower and and with the the resources of our country, I'm certain we can manufacture onshore.

What's your reaction to the Wall Street Journal saying Huawei is advancing to catch up to your highest level chips?

There's no question that Huawei is one of the most formidable technology companies in the world.

And they're incredible in computing, they're incredible in networking technology and software capabilities, all of the essential capabilities to advance AI.

They have, they've made enormous progress in the last several years.

How far, can I just ask one more like how far behind do you think China is?

I mean, they're we're very, very close, but remember, this is a long term, this is an infinite race.

There's no, you know, in the in the world of life, there's no those, you know, there's no two minute end of the quarter, there's there's no such thing.

And so we're going to compete for a long time.

And just remember remember that this is this is a country with great will and they have great technical capabilities.

50% of the world's AI researchers are Chinese and and so this is a uh this is an industry that that we will have to compete for.

Huang will be visiting the White House later today to continue to talk about AI as well as tariffs.

Of course, the White House is currently being being putting together a plan for what their path forward with AI will look like.

Yeah, Emily, very interesting comments from Jensen Wong there, you know, echoing I think what any number of people who follow us closely have been uh saying lately in terms of China's abilities.

Um, I would assume he's going to share the same um with the administration with uh uh with um with Congress as well, in part because he's dealing with the possibility of sectoral tariffs that conceivably could hamper our ability in this country to continue to advance at the same pace.

Exactly, and and Wong, you know, he kind of spoke to me about the fact that he has invested and does want to invest in the US.

But when it comes to AI, it's not just a matter of AI specifically, it's a much broader ecosystem that has to be able to support it from the skills to the energy to of course the tariffs.

And to be able to build these factories here in the US, if Trump really wants to be able to onshore as he said he does, there is some questions about exactly what the outcome of his tariffs are going to be.

And whether you are going to be able to have that manufacturing return to the US in the way that he wants.

I I guess I'm just wondering on the incentives if they're if they are aligned.

Nvidia, I mean, obviously Nvidia has a big US company and and wants the US to win, but China remains an important market for Nvidia after we saw that big write down when the chips were banned.

Sir, you know, it's absolutely correct, I think there are a lot of questions as far as what the impact of tariffs are going to be and if the US is going to really be able to remain competitive.

There are certainly concerns among lawmakers who I speak with about the US's ability to remain ahead of China.

As you heard him say, China is only right behind us and they have a lot of capabilities, um and I think you've seen a lot of changes right now in how the various administrations have approached AI.

But the Trump administration has basically reversed a lot of that, uh we don't know exactly what's next or what it looks like.

And when I talk to folks in the AI industry, they say that that really needs to be there for the US to have a seat at the table.

And to continue to be a leader globally when it comes to AI standards and and what the policies and rules of the world are.