President Donald Trump publicly urged acceleration of data‑center construction and artificial intelligence development after phoning in to the All‑in Summit while Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, was delivering a keynote, CNBC reported.
Speaking to attendees, Trump said that “data centers are the oil of the next 20–25 years,” and added that he would stand with the sector. His remarks were a clear rebuke to those calling for a slowdown in AI development.
The exchange came amid a renewed debate over the pace of model development. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, published an essay over the weekend arguing for a deliberate slowing of model development; his position was supported by Sam Altman, who runs OpenAI, and Elon Musk, prompting broad discussion within the industry.
Trump has previously criticized AI skeptics on his Truth Social platform, calling concerns a “scam and a fraud” and labeling those who urge slowing development as “revolutionaries for a bad cause.” He also suggested that the United States has become a target because it leads the world in data‑center construction and claimed that calls to slow progress could originate from China.
During the phone call, Jensen Huang agreed with Trump. When the president said the United States would not allow development to be stopped, Huang replied, “We will not let that happen, sir.” Trump also quipped that, while Huang can design the world’s most complex chip, he still could not easily manage the speakerphone — a light‑hearted moment highlighted in the broadcast.
The episode underscores the increasingly public rapport between Trump and Jensen Huang; the article notes that the two have appeared together multiple times during the president’s second term. Chamath Palihapitiya, a co‑organizer of the All‑in Summit, commented on X that the video was “This was surreal.”
According to CNBC, Trump’s public stance signals political support for technology investment and AI development, while the industry debate over the appropriate pace of model advancement remains heated.
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