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Nvidia's Jensen Huang says U.S. must work with Chinese AI firms to monitor risks, urges enhanced dialogue

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC that the United States “absolutely must” cooperate with Chinese AI companies to monitor the risks of artificial intelligence. He said he already holds “dialogues with many of the researchers in China” and called AI “potentially dangerous.”

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What happened

Key facts

  • Jensen Huang is the CEO of Nvidia and spoke to CNBC during a media briefing in London (per Breitbart, CNBC).
  • Huang said the United States “absolutely must” work with Chinese AI companies to advance the technology safely (per Breitbart).
  • Huang said he already maintains “dialogues with many of the researchers in China.” (per Breitbart).
  • Breitbart noted that Huang has opposed calls for broader AI regulation (per Breitbart).
  • Huang said, “We ought to enhance the dialogue,” about cooperating on AI safety with Chinese researchers (per Breitbart).

The brief

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang told CNBC that the United States should cooperate with Chinese AI companies to monitor and manage the risks posed by rapidly advancing artificial intelligence.

Speaking during a media briefing in London, Huang called AI “potentially dangerous” and said the U.S. and Chinese firms “absolutely must” work together so the technology is advanced safely.

Huang told the CNBC interviewer that he already keeps “dialogues with many of the researchers in China” and urged that those conversations be expanded, saying, “We ought to enhance the dialogue.” Breitbart reported his remarks and framed them as part of Huang’s resistance to broader regulation of AI.

The outlet also recorded Huang’s language that stressed collaboration rather than isolated national approaches. Breitbart placed Huang’s position in contrast with other industry figures the article named: it said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic cofounder Dario Amodei have publicly called for stronger regulatory oversight.

The Breitbart piece noted that Huang has repeatedly opposed tighter regulation, presenting his advocacy for cross-border technical dialogue as an alternative path to managing risk.

The article reported the setting for Huang’s comments as a London media briefing on a Wednesday evening and included his direct characterization of the technology as “potentially dangerous.” It also relayed a moment cited by the outlet in which Huang referenced interactions that involved prominent technology hosts and White House advisers during other appearances.

Breitbart’s account focused on Huang’s view that collaboration with Chinese researchers is essential to “advance the technology safely,” and on his ongoing engagement with Chinese researchers.

The article did not detail what specific monitoring mechanisms, agreements or institutions Huang had in mind, nor did it provide independent confirmation of what such cooperation would entail.

Readers should note that the narrative and emphasis in the piece come from Breitbart’s reporting of Huang’s comments; the outlet framed those comments in the context of his opposition to stricter regulation while naming other tech leaders who support more oversight.

The article presents Huang’s remarks, his quoted language about dialogue, and the contrast with calls for regulation as its central material.

Why it matters

  • U.S. policymakers and industry leaders: Huang’s call for cooperation signals a prominent industry CEO advocating cross-border technical dialogue as a mechanism to monitor AI risks, a stance that directly bears on debates about whether to pursue regulation or industry-led engagement.
  • Chinese AI researchers: Huang reported he already holds dialogues with researchers in China, which documents an existing channel of technical exchange that could shape how safety standards are discussed between firms.
  • Regulatory debate: The article records a clear difference in positions among named industry leaders—Huang urging cooperation and resisting tighter regulation, while Sam Altman and Dario Amodei call for greater oversight—affecting which policy options U.S. officials may weigh.

What to watch next

  • Whether U.S. policymakers or regulators adopt Huang’s proposal to enhance dialogues with Chinese AI firms, as advocated in his CNBC remarks cited by Breitbart.
  • Whether Jensen Huang expands or formalises the "dialogues with many of the researchers in China" he said he already maintains.
  • Whether other industry leaders named in the article, such as Sam Altman or Dario Amodei, advance their calls for greater regulatory oversight in direct response to Huang’s position.

How it's being covered

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Timeline

Developments from this story's sources, dated background we compiled and fact-checked, and our earlier coverage. Each row says which.
  1. Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem founded Nvidia.
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  2. Nvidia released its CUDA software platform for programming GPUs.
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  3. Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton published their AlexNet paper on GPU-trained image recognition.
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  4. Researchers submitted the paper “Attention Is All You Need,” which introduced the Transformer architecture.
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  5. The U.S. Commerce Department announced export controls on advanced computing chips and semiconductor-manufacturing items destined for China.
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  6. OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public.
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  7. The United States and China joined other countries in signing the Bletchley Declaration on artificial intelligence.
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  8. U.S. and Chinese officials held their first bilateral talks on artificial intelligence in Geneva.
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How we got here

The immediate backdrop is Nvidia’s commercial and technical engagement with China, including the company’s 1993 founding by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem and Nvidia’s ongoing sales of data‑center GPUs into Chinese markets through the 2010s and 2020s.

In 2023 Nvidia introduced China‑specific GPU models (reported throughout 2023) and adjusted its product offerings after new U.S. export controls were applied, a commercial pattern that frames Huang’s October 2026 comment to CNBC in London.

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