At the Beijing Expo, Jensen Huang also announced plans for a new chip for Chinese clients that is designed for robotics and smart factories.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised China’s open-source AI innovation during a fireside chat at the China International Supply Chain Expo, according to SCMP. Jensen Huang called open source “extremely powerful” and praised China’s ecosystem for producing the world’s best open-reasoning models,

Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI released a new open-source AI model on Friday, joining a wave of similar releases from local rivals, as it seeks to reclaim its position in the competitive domestic market.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised China's AI models a day after the U.S. chipmaker said it expected to resume sales of a key product to China. "More than 1.5 million developers in China build on Nvidia today to bring their innovations to life," he said.

Beijing’s industrial policy is accelerating its rise in artificial intelligence, challenging US dominance despite export restrictions.

For a company long defined by proprietary development, this move is a symbol of a broader technological undercurrent sweeping across China: from innovation to diffusion.

China is quickly closing the gap with the United States in the contest to make technologies that rival the human brain