Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls Chinese AI models “world class”, including the one ‘banned’ by the US government

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described artificial intelligence models from Chinese firms as “world class” during a supply chain expo in Beijing, just one day after the US chipmaker announced it would resume sales of its popular H20 AI chips to China.

“Models like DeepSeek (the open-source model that was banned by the US), Alibaba, Tencent, MiniMax, and Baidu Ernie bot are world class, developed here and shared openly [and] have spurred AI developments worldwide,” Huang said at the opening ceremony of the third China International Supply Chain Expo.