Jensen Huang is out. What did China want from him?
Thornton China Center, about the real heart of the scandal: What would China even seek to accomplish by having a spy so close to Jensen?
Key points
- Kyle’s answers about chips and how China is perceiving the so-called AI “race” were very illuminating, but maybe even more interesting was his observation on Jensen Huang’s relationship with Trump was the most important thing of all — because maybe what China most stood to gain was someone who could whisper in the right ears.
- And what does the real state of the US-China AI conflict really looks like, particularly from the Chinese point of view?
- We’ll have more on that story as things develop and we learn how Nvidia will restructure itself after Jensen — he had something like 60 direct reports, after all, and the entire AI financial ecosystem flows through the company.
From all the reporting we have today, it seems like the United States government has been very worried about a company called Megaspeed and Alice Huang, the alleged Chinese spy at the center of the swirling scandal around Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia.
Additional details
- They also seem to potentially have ties with Chinese companies and could — and this is where we’re getting into what we do know and what we don’t know — potentially be a conduit for Chinese AI companies accessing cutting-edge Nvidia chips like Blackwells.
- They got very good at that, but at the same time with US export controls and greater technology restrictions on access to cutting-edge GPUs, China increasingly pushed these AI companies to switch away from Nvidia to Huawei and other domestic AI chip makers.
- But keep in mind that when we were talking, we still didn’t know what would happen with Jensen.
- What on earth could we be talking about as it relates to your expertise about China today?
- It turns out they did a bunch of fine-tuning on the chips they did have.
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