Global technology cooperation will continue, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Saturday, even if the incoming US administration tightens export regulations on high-end computer products.
Citing national security concerns, US President-elect Donald Trump restricted the transfer of US technology to China during his first term in office. This policy was maintained by President Joe Biden. The world’s top producer of chips for AI applications, Nvidia, was compelled by the restrictions to alter its range of products in China.
“Open science in global collaboration and cooperation across math and science has been around for a very long time. It is the foundation of social advancement and scientific advancement,” Huang told media during a visit to Hong Kong.
Cooperation is “going to continue. I don’t know what’s going to happen in the new administration, but whatever happens, we’ll balance compliance with laws and policies, continue to advance our technology, and support and serve customers all over the world.”
Speaking in the financial center, the CEO of the most valuable firm in the world had just been awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
In front of students and scholars, Huang engaged in a fireside talk with Harry Sham, the chairman of the university’s council, during the visit.
Asked about the huge energy requirements of graphics processing units—chips behind artificial intelligence—Huang said, “If the world uses more energy to power the AI factories of the world, we are a better world when that happens.”.
Huang said, “The goal of AI is not for training; the goal of AI is for inference.” He claims that AI can discover new materials for storing electricity, designs for wind turbines, and techniques for storing carbon dioxide in reservoirs.
According to him, people had to start considering locating AI supercomputers in areas remote from populated areas, away from the electrical grid, and using sustainable energy.
“My hopes and dreams are that in the end, what we all see is that using energy for intelligence is the best use of energy we can imagine,” Huang said.
Earlier on Saturday, Huang told graduates that “the age of AI has started” in a speech after receiving the honorary degree.
“A new computing era that will impact every industry and every field of science.”
Huang, 61, also expressed his regret to graduates that he did not begin his profession at this time.
“The whole world is reset. You’re at the starting line with everybody else. An industry is being reinvented. You now have the instruments, the instruments necessary to advance science in so many different fields,” Huang said.
“The greatest challenges of our time, unimaginable challenges to overcome in the past, all of a sudden seem possible to tackle.”
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