China has warned the US against using the controversy surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his affair with a Chinese businesswoman suspected by US intelligence of links to Beijing as a pretext for tighter curbs on Nvidia’s advanced AI chips.
\n\nThe Nvidia CEO’s reported affair with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive whom US suspect of links to Chinese intelligence, has raised national security concerns and questions over the future of Nvidia and the AI industry at large.
\n\n“The US should stop fabricating the so-called Chinese spy narrative as a pretext for imposing technology restrictions,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a press briefing on Thursday, November 12.
\n\n“China’s scientific progress relies on independent innovation and open cooperation,” she added.
\n\nThe comments come as Chinese AI companies look to secure Nvidia-powered computing capacity outside China, fearing that the controversy over Huang could push Washington to close a loophole allowing them to remotely access restricted US chips.
\n\nA major Chinese cloud provider has internally discussed locking in overseas Nvidia chip capacity, while some companies have approached data-centre operators about reserving computing power, Reuters reported. Smaller AI labs are also considering similar moves, including through providers in Southeast Asia.
\n\nThe concern centres…
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