On April 16, Bloomberg reported that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday that the breakthrough achieved by Anthropic’s latest large-scale network security model Mythos shows that the United States should seek to strengthen cooperation with China so that AI researchers in the world’s two largest economies can reach a consensus on how to safely use this increasingly powerful technology.
Jen-Hsun Huang
"We hope the U.S. can win, but I think it's probably the safest thing to keep dialogue and exchanges at a research level," Huang told tech podcast Dwarkesh on Wednesday. "We have to try to reach an agreement and be clear on what uses can't be done with AI. That's critical."
He worries that tensions between the United States and China over trade and security issues have hindered collaboration in key research areas.
"Because of our current attitude toward China as an adversary, there is a clear lack of communication in this area," Huang said. "It is critical that our AI researchers have real dialogue with their AI researchers."
Export controls
Huang has been pressuring the Trump administration over the past year to relax U.S. export controls. The controls prevent Nvidia from selling its top AI processors to China, citing national security concerns.
When asked whether the U.S. export controls restrict China, Huang Renxun said that the Chinese market will not be restricted by a lack of computing power because China has abundant energy resources, technology to manufacture "mainstream" chips, and the ability to combine more processors.
He said the computing power required to train the Anthropic Mythos model is "fairly modest" and "available in large quantities in China."Because this model has strong cybersecurity capabilities, it is currently only open to some companies and government officials.
"They have so much energy. They have data centers that are completely vacant and fully powered," Huang said. "If they want, they can put more chips together, even 7-nanometer chips."
"Their chip manufacturing capabilities are one of the strongest in the world." Huang Renxun said.