Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’

While onstage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received a live phone call from President Donald Trump. Huang put the president on speakerphone for the audience to hear, a move that highlighted his stance on the current state of AI development. The discussion onstage had been centered on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow the pace of AI capability improvements—a sentiment supported by Elon Musk and Sam Altman, but one that Huang disagrees with. Trump dismissed the idea of slowing down AI, suggesting that such calls play into the hands of political opponents or foreign powers like China. "We’re not going to let that happen," Trump stated. Huang replied, "You’re right. We’re not going to let that happen, sir," to applause from the crowd. Trump and other industry figures have suggested that opposition to data center construction is an attempt to stifle American economic growth.