Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been active on the government relations and lobbying front, and now he’s got something big to show for his efforts: the Trump Administration has agreed to lift a ban on selling Nvidia H20 AI chips to China.

The Trump administration’s expressed desire to “beat” China in the AI race was the path to the U.S. falling hopelessly behind. That’s why the meeting Nvidia’s Jensen Huan

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised China's AI models a day after the U.S. chipmaker said it expected to resume sales of a key product to China. "More than 1.5 million developers in China build on Nvidia today to bring their innovations to life," he said.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the US must win over global AI developers — especially the 50% in China — to lead the future of AI.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, once apolitical, emerged as a key geopolitical player after US restrictions threatened chip sales to China. Lobbying Trump and navigating Washington, he helped reverse the ban,

As America and China swap shots in the trade battle served up by Donald Trump, Mr Huang has pinged and ponged between Washington and Beijing to reassure both sides it is in their mutual interest to let his company keep selling some of its artificial-intelligence ( AI) chips to Chinese buyers.

During an extended Nvidia media briefing in China after the China International Supply Chain Expo, CEO Jensen Huang addressed US-China trade relations and China's rising tech influence. He emphasized China's strength in software and computer science,

Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang should be praised for traveling to China this week in pursuit of expansion in what is a crucial market for all manner of blue-chip U.S. companies. A world that is economically interconnected is a much more peaceful one.

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