- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Urges Caution About China’s Computing Power
- China has ‘enormous’ amounts of computing, including much that goes unused
- Huang says China training Myths-style model could cause problems
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned of the potential threat China poses in terms of harnessing huge amounts of computing power to train its next generation of artificial intelligence models.
Speaking on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast, Huang said China could soon be able to train an AI model equivalent to Anthropic’s recently announced Claude Mythos, which could have worrying effects on global cybersecurity.
Huang also expressed concern about the “enormous” amount of computing that China currently does not use, but said both his company and the United States in general should still be in a strong position.
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Chips and more chips
“The amount of capability and the type of computing that (Mythos) was trained on is abundantly available in China, so you first have to realize that chips exist in China,” Huang said, noting how Mythos was trained on a “pretty mundane capability.”
“They (China) have data centers that are completely empty and full of power,” Huang added. “You know, they have ghost cities, they also have ghost data centers. They have a lot of infrastructure capacity. If they wanted to, [could] just put more chips together… Their chip building capacity is one of the largest in the world.”
China already makes a lot of chip hardware used around the world, as well as many leading universities and AI researchers, offering huge potential for collaboration, rather than rivalry, Huang said.
“This is an area that is clearly lacking given our current attitude about China as an adversary,” he said. “It is essential that our AI researchers and their AI researchers really talk.”
“Victimizing them, turning them into enemies is probably not the best response,” he added. “They are an adversary.”
“We want the United States to win. But I think having a dialogue and a dialogue about research is probably the safest thing to do.”
“It is essential that we try to agree on what not to use AI for.”
Mythos is a key part of Project Glasswing, a new cybersecurity initiative that Anthropic is leading alongside technology leaders to identify and patch vulnerabilities in critical software.
It quickly gained widespread attention, and OpenAI also recently revealed GPT-5.4-Cyber, its Mythos rival, designed for cybersecurity professionals to detect the next level of attacks.
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