Huang: Restricting software forces alternative solutions to become global standards
Jensen Huang · Jensen Huang & Arthur Mensch: Why Every Nation Needs Its Own AI Strategy · Mar 20, 2025 · at 39:23
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, responds to proposals to restrict open-source AI models to licensed national labs.
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“Software is impossible to control. If you want to control it, then somebody else's will emerge and become the standard.”
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