Why Jensen Huang Splits From US Frontier Labs on Open Source and Export Controls
morganlai · x · 2026-11-13
A explainer thread lays out how Jensen Huang's stance diverges from most US frontier labs: labs like Anthropic have pushed to gatekeep open-source models, while the US government has spent a decade imposing GPU export controls and forcing Nvidia to build a separate, downgraded chip class for China. Huang wants the US to win the AI race but isn't anti-competition — as long as customers can afford the compute, he doesn't care where they're from.
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