Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned that if DeepSeek AI uses Huawei chips, the resulting technology could diverge from the American tech stack. Huang cautioned that if Chinese standards dominate global AI development, China may gain an insurmountable technological edge over the United States.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on a recent podcast that if Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek optimised its new models on chips from Huawei Technologies, it would be “a horrible outcome” for the US. If “future AI models are optimised in a very different way than the American tech stack”, and as “AI diffuses out into the rest of the world” with Chinese standards and technology, China “will become superior to” the US, Huang said on the Dwarkesh Podcast on Wednesday. The conversation.....