NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: American Companies Should Be Allowed to Use Chinese Open Source AI Models
Jensen Huang stated that American companies should absolutely be allowed to use Chinese AI open source models, refuting concerns about potential backdoors in the models. He pointed out that users can download the models, fine-tune them, and set any necessary guardrails, noting that excellent open source models will lead to more use cases. Huang also emphasized that the belief that open source models would harm closed source models is incorrect.
Source: Public Information
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Jensen Huang has previously expressed support for global AI technology exchange and open source development. This statement continues NVIDIA's historical stance as a chip supplier promoting the accelerated adoption of advanced models across the industry, similar to its views on an open global supply chain.
From a capital perspective, allowing the use of Chinese open source models reduces training costs for American developers and accelerates ecosystem iteration, while NVIDIA benefits from overall demand growth through chip sales, creating a mutually beneficial cycle.
Similar to the Intel era of global chip ecosystem co-construction, American AI is currently in an expansion phase amid the parallel existence of open and closed source models and cross-border model usage controversies.
Essentially, this is about technological substitution and capital concentration: open source models lower entry barriers, capital concentrates on the best global models and underlying computing power providers, and pricing power shifts from single-country closed systems to performance and cost competition in a multi-source open ecosystem.
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- The better the open source model, the faster the overall AI adoption rate.
- The greater the concerns about backdoors, the more critical actual fine-tuning guardrails become.
- When technology knows no borders, chip suppliers are always the biggest winners.