- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urges caution over China’s computing capabilities
- China has ‘huge’ amounts of computing, much of which remains unused
- Huang says training China on a Myth-type 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 AI models.
Speaking on the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast, Huang said China may 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 raised concerns about the “enormous” amount of computing resources currently lying idle in China, but said his company and the United States as a whole should still be in a position of strength.
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Chips and more chips
“The amount of capability and the type of computing that (Mythos) was trained on is widely available in China, so you just need to first realize that the chips exist in China,” Huang said, emphasizing how Mythos was trained on a “fairly mundane capability.”
“They (China) have data centers that are completely empty and fully powered,” Huang added. “You know, they have ghost towns, they also have ghost data centers. They have so much infrastructure capacity. If they wanted to, they [could] just pack more chips together… Their capacity to make chips is one of the largest in the world.
China already manufactures a large quantity of chips used around the world and has many leading universities and AI researchers, providing huge potential for collaboration rather than rivalry, Huang noted.
“This is an area that is sorely lacking because of our current attitude toward China as an adversary,” he said. “It is essential that our AI researchers and their AI researchers actually talk. »
“Victimizing them, turning them into enemies is probably not the best response,” he added. “It’s an opponent.”
“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 both try to agree on why AI should not be used.”
Mythos is a key part of Project Glasswing, a new cybersecurity initiative that Anthropic is leading with technology leaders to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in critical software.
It quickly gained attention and OpenAI also recently revealed GPT-5.4-Cyber, its Mythos rival, designed to enable cybersecurity professionals to detect the next level of attacks.
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