in a certain world As people become increasingly skeptical of AI’s potential, we can expect Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to be the last person to promote AI as a fundamental force for social change. .
Speaking with WIRED senior writer Lauren Goode at a big interview event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Huang called the AI trend “a reset of computing as we know it for the past 60 years.” I called. The power of AI is “so incredibly powerful that there’s no way we can counter it. You’re either riding the wave, or you’re missing the wave.”
In other words, Jensen said, “People are starting to realize that AI is like energy and communications infrastructure, and what we’re going to see is digital intelligence infrastructure.”
But Huang’s challenge now is getting others, especially governments around the world, to buy into his vision.
Huang was the only interviewee to participate in the event by phone from outside the country. Huang said he has been in Thailand, where he lived for five years as a child, and just today met with Thai Prime Minister Pethunthan Shinawatra to discuss building a “world-class AI infrastructure” in the country. .
This means that we should individually carve our own paths to the future by building our own AI infrastructure, processing our own national data, having our own AI systems, and, of course, buying products. It’s the latest stop on Hwang’s whirlwind tour this year to sell ideas to governments. Nvidia chip for that.
The pitch seemed to go pretty well. Thailand is the latest addition to the list of at least 10 countries that have signed AI infrastructure projects with Nvidia, according to data compiled by Sherwood News. Hwang himself said in an interview that he was in Denmark, Japan, Indonesia and India this year. Each country has decided to build its own national AI system using Nvidia chips.
Huang’s successful pitch to world governments reflects both a fundamental recognition of the potential of AI systems and an increasingly fragmented Internet, with geographic boundaries reconfigured online. AI is a modern technology product, and the invisible flow of chips and data is blocked by national boundaries.
One of the main tensions is between the United States and China, two major technology powers that aspire to take the lead in the coming wave of technological change. When the two countries collide, Nvidia will inevitably find itself at the center of the storm.
Just this Monday, the Biden administration announced new regulations banning the export of chip components and chip manufacturing technology to China. One of the limitations concerns high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a memory component often used in customized AI chips. Nvidia’s H20 chips are designed to be sold to Chinese companies without violating export regulations and include HBM chips. In anticipation of this week’s restrictions, Nvidia has suspended orders for H20 chips from China as early as September, according to Chinese media reports.
