Jensen Huang says China's military will avoid U.S. AI tech — 'they don’t need Nvidia’s chips or American tech stacks in order to build their military'

Jensen Huang Nvidia CEO on Stage in Paris.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has downplayed Washington’s concerns that the Chinese military will use advanced U.S. AI tech to improve its capabilities. Mr. Huang said in an interview with CNN that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will avoid American tech the same way that the U.S.’s armed forces avoid Chinese products.

This announcement comes on the heels of the United States Senate’s open letter [PDF] to the CEO, asking him to “refrain from meeting with representatives of any companies that are working with the PRC’s military or intelligence establishment…or are suspected to have engaged in activities that undermine U.S. export controls.”