Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to meet President Trump at White House today
Nvidia CEO and the President of the United States in a one-on-one meeting.

According to the Financial Times, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House. The source, familiar with the matter, reportedly indicated that the meeting was planned some time ago but did not reveal the topics to be discussed. Given Nvidia’s current focus, it is likely that Huang and Trump will discuss U.S. AI policies.
U.S. AI policy is multifaceted, from domestic development of AI models and hardware to exporting AI hardware to other nations. As a result, Jensen Huang, who did not attend Trump's inauguration, and newly elected U.S. President Donald Trump could discuss many topics.
The meeting comes after the Chinese startup DeepSeek made a major AI breakthrough, triggering a massive sell-off of AI-related stocks and wiping out a trillion dollars in market value. However, the Financial Times's source stressed that the meeting was planned before DeepSeek introduced its R1 AI model.
DeepSeek has drawn attention to developing an advanced AI model while using significantly fewer computing resources than companies like Meta or OpenAI. The startup claims it spent $5.6 million training its V3 model using 2,048 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs. However, analysts estimate DeepSeek and its affiliate, hedge fund High-Flyer, have access to approximately 60,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs and have invested over $500 million in restricted hardware that was not supposed to be shipped to China.
Nvidia has long opposed expanding export restrictions, arguing that limiting sales of high-end chips to China would affect the sales of American companies and could backfire by encouraging Chinese firms to develop their semiconductor industry. To meet strict performance limitations for AI GPUs shipped to Chinese entities, Nvidia developed its H20 HGX —a cut-down version of the H100—that complies with current U.S. export regulations and does not require an export license from the Department of Commerce. However, rumors suggest that the Trump administration plans to restrict Nvidia's H20 HGX GPU shipments to Chinese entities, which could cost Nvidia over $10 billion in annual sales.
Nvidia has not commented on Huang’s upcoming meeting with Trump.
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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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chaz_music I wonder if he is going to explain to Trump that neural net technology is well over 40 years old, and existed in applications already such as adaptive control and fuzzy logic? The only difference now is the large number of nodes that we can create, at high cost and at horrible power usage.Reply
We need to find the "darling" applications first and aim the hardware to satisfy the need. You know: good old 'Lean Design/ 6 Sigma' marketing where you gather voice of the customer and let that drive your spec and market profit expectations. This is how world class companies find the right markets and not waste their internal monetary resources chasing bad ideas. In other words, Marketing 101. -
hotaru251
gov/ai don't care about consumer gpu they care about datacenter type which are much more plentiful.Gaidax said:Executive order to make more 5090s incoming?
can't be excluded specifically as that would end up with the rest of the giants effected taking it to courts.eichwana said:How much will he pay to have nvidia exempt from the semiconductor tariffs. -
Gaidax
It was a joke, my braddah.hotaru251 said:gov/ai don't care about consumer gpu they care about datacenter type which are much more plentiful. -
Alvar "Miles" Udell Nvidia has long opposed expanding export restrictions, arguing that limiting sales of high-end chips to China would affect the sales of American companies and could backfire by encouraging Chinese firms to develop their semiconductor industry.
Surely he's not so dumb as to think China would never develop its own semiconductor industry so as to not be dependent upon the West...Think everyone knows he's just afraid of losing access to a market sooner than planned. -
Stomx Rediculous restrictions with H100 vs H800 or H100 vs H20 by reducing communication speed by 30% or by factor of 2. In supercomputer world two supercomputers differ by the factor of 2 are equal.Reply