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At the Beijing Expo, Jensen Huang also announced plans for a new chip for Chinese clients that is designed for robotics and smart factories.
Open source was “extremely powerful” for AI innovation and Chinese firms offer the “best open reasoning models”, Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in Beijing on Thursday, ahead of the expected resumption of the company’s H20 chip sales to China.
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI released a new open-source AI model on Friday, joining a wave of similar releases from local rivals, as it seeks to reclaim its position in the competitive domestic market.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised China's AI models a day after the U.S. chipmaker said it expected to resume sales of a key product to China. "More than 1.5 million developers in China build on Nvidia today to bring their innovations to life," he said.
Beijing’s industrial policy is accelerating its rise in artificial intelligence, challenging US dominance despite export restrictions.
Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the United States.
For a company long defined by proprietary development, this move is a symbol of a broader technological undercurrent sweeping across China: from innovation to diffusion.