How an engineer turned tech mogul became the most influential voice in AI and a key figure in Trump’s trade diplomacy with China.

Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang should be praised for traveling to China this week in pursuit of expansion in what is a crucial market for all manner of blue-chip U.S. companies. A world that is economically interconnected is a much more peaceful one.

Huang is now richer than LVMH’s Bernard Arnault ($147.9 billion) and just behind Google co-founder Larry Page ($150.6 billion).

Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang spent months telling everyone what a grave mistake the US was making restricting shipments of artificial intelligence processors to China — with little sign that his argument was swaying anyone.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hailed Chinese AI models like DeepSeek as world-class, adding that AI is ‘fundamental infrastructure’ akin to electricity. Speaking in Beijing, he called China's open-source AI a ‘catalyst for global progress’.

Jensen Huang heaped praise on Chinese AI models and signed autographs a day after the Trump administration allowed Nvidia to resume selling one of its advanced chips to Chinese customers.

The sales resumption of Nvidia's H20 processors and Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) MI308 chips in China is expected to ease the anxiety of local artificial intelligence companies, according to analysts.