OpenAI ex–board member Helen Toner says revoking ban on Nvidia AI chip exports would be a ‘huge victory’ for China

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Revoking export controls on Nvidia AI chips, or GPUs, would be a “huge victory” for China and DeepSeek, who see access to the sophisticated chips as a strategic necessity for AI dominance, said Helen Toner, director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a former OpenAI board member.

“I think it’s possible that Nvidia will use this to persuade [President] Trump that the export controls are just holding back U.S. industry and that he should just revoke them,” she told Fortune.