Trump leaves Beijing saying he and Xi talked AI guardrails. Nothing was signed.

Asked what kind of guardrails on the way out, the US president told reporters on Air Force One: ‘standard guardrails that we talk about all the time’. H200 deliveries to ten cleared Chinese buyers remain stalled.

Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday that he and Xi Jinping discussed AI guardrails and Nvidia’s H200 chips during the two-day Beijing summit, Bloomberg reported.

Asked what kind of guardrails, the US president said: ‘standard guardrails that we talk about all the time’. He added that the two leaders had ‘talked about possibly working together’ on them.

The summit closed without a signed AI governance framework, and without the most-watched piece of the deal moving. Shortly before the meeting on Thursday, Washington had cleared roughly ten Chinese technology firms, including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com and Lenovo, to buy up to 75,000 H200 chips each under a new export-licensing regime, as CNBC reported.

Not a single H200 has yet shipped to the cleared buyers, and Chinese rare-earth exports remain about 50% below pre-restriction levels.