That was the message to Chinese companies from a confidant of leader Xi Jinping, who’s heading up domestic efforts to overcome Nvidia’s stranglehold on cutting-edge AI chips. Go read this report from the Wall Street Journal that lays out the global stakes and the likelihood that China can repeat the playbook that saw it upending (and then dominating) industries like drones, EVs, display panels, solar, batteries… you get the idea. [Link: Inside China’s All-Out Push to Catch Up With American AI Chips | https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-ai-chips-race-949050d0?st=FuuD9C&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink | WSJ.com]

Huang told Axios that American companies should "absolutely" be allowed to use Chinese models.

At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, Chinese chipmakers pitched their latest hardware to customers who can’t get Nvidia’s technology — and can’t get enough of theirs either.