Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and President Trump met to discuss AI policy, DeepSeek, and hardware export controls
First details about Friday's meeting between Donald Trump and Jensen Huang emerge.

Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of Nvidia, met on Friday with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss American AI policy, export controls on advanced AI GPUs for China, and U.S. technology and AI leadership, Reuters reports.
"I cannot say what is going to happen," Trump reportedly said. "We had a meeting. It was a good meeting."
According to the report, Trump's recent meeting with Nvidia's boss touched upon several topics related to artificial intelligence and semiconductors. The AI section of the discussion reportedly included American AI policies, China's DeepSeek, and the implications of its technologies on the AI services and hardware market in general, as well as U.S. export controls on advanced AI GPUs.
"We had a meeting. It was a good meeting."
Donald Trump
The Reuters report does not detail the semiconductor-related part of the conversation, though given Trump’s focus on the onshore production of chips, we can make some guesses.
"We appreciated the opportunity to meet with President Trump and discuss semiconductors and AI policy," an Nvidia spokesperson said in a statement by NHK. "Jensen and the President discussed the importance of strengthening U.S. technology and AI leadership."
Nvidia is the industry-leading supplier of AI GPUs for training and inference, so when the U.S. government updates its export policies, this seriously affects the company. Earlier this year, the previous U.S. government announced new export policies under which Nvidia and other companies could sell advanced AI hardware without any restrictions only to entities based in the U.S. and 18 allied countries. There would be restrictions on shipping sophisticated AI GPUs and hardware to the rest of the world, including U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East. In contrast, companies in adversary countries like China and Russia would be essentially blocked from getting high-end AI GPUs. Nvidia has criticized the move as its current and upcoming products fall under the new rules, which might affect the company materially.
The Trump administration could reverse the proposed regulation, just like it reversed Biden’s AI development policies earlier this month. However, it has yet to make its move. There are reports that the Biden administration is considering blocking sales of Nvidia’s cut-down H20 HGX to China, which could cost Nvidia some $10 billion in revenue.
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Another topic that might have been discussed is Nvidia’s reliance on Taiwan-based TSMC for chip production. Trump wants leading chipmakers to build their fabs in the U.S., but building cutting-edge fabs would take years. The only company with leading-edge manufacturing capacity in the U.S. is Intel. However, it is unclear whether the company has enough 18A (1.8nm-class) production capacity for itself and external customers is unclear.
Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.
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George³ I'm going to speculate in an unusual and perhaps not directly related way. But, am I imagining that OpenAI has deliberately made their models very computationally heavy, so as to force customers to buy more computing cards to train them fast enough to be competitive? This seems like a strange reasoning on my part, but it is also very capitalist, because it is about maximizing profit for the manufacturer of the computing hardware.Reply -
USAFRet As usual, a general warning to all and sundry:Reply
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alrighty_then I suspect China gets the GPUs regardless, through resellers in neighboring countries that won't respect the sanctions. But it will be harder with the sanctions in place...Reply
So will Trump keep the sanctions to hinder an opposing country and risk hurting a powerful American country bottom-line, or, will he appear to assist an opposing country for the benefit of an American company? It's a tricky, no-win position. -
Dr3ams
The OP article is political...USAFRet said:As usual, a general warning to all and sundry:
Anything political will be summarily removed.
Jensen Huang meets with President Trump and talks about the politics of AI.
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Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of Nvidia, met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss American AI policy
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USAFRet
If you could see the now deleted replies, you would understand why I posted that small advisory.Dr3ams said:The OP article is political...
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Dr3ams
Understood.USAFRet said:If you could see the now deleted replies, you would understand why I posted that small advisory. -
Math Geek Nvidia just took a bit hit from Deep seek release. Needs to lobby for something to hold that back so his stock can continue to reap those sweet sweet MASSIVE profits they been enjoying last couple years.Reply
Complete and total uninformed speculation and guessing on my part. But hey why not. Lol -
Loadedaxe
It’s true that competition is heating up in the Ai world, but Nvidia still has a massive lead in AI hardware, software, and ecosystem support, and we all know that is not going to change.Math Geek said:Nvidia just took a bit hit from Deep seek release. Needs to lobby for something to hold that back so his stock can continue to reap those sweet sweet MASSIVE profits they been enjoying last couple years.
Complete and total uninformed speculation and guessing on my part. But hey why not. Lol
DeepSeek’s release might shake things up, but it’s unlikely to cause any issues overnight. That said, Nvidia has always been aggressive in protecting its market position, whether through innovation, strategic partnerships, or yes, lobbying as well. Some will claim conspiracy theories, but at the end of the day, that's all they are, just theories.
It’ll be interesting to see how things progress over the coming months. -
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I hope they pay you for moderating these forums (y)USAFRet said:If you could see the now deleted replies, you would understand why I posted that small advisory.
One can also wonder if seeing ALL the posts before moderation makes you reflect badly about humanity :(