‘What the hell is Nvidia?’ stated Trump whereas presenting on AI

Just a few days in the past, President Donald Trump admitted that he had by no means heard of Nvidia or its CEO Jensen Huang at the same time as he wished to interrupt the corporate up, experiences Tom’s {Hardware}.

All of this occurred at Trump’s presentation of his AI Motion Plan in Washington, making the remarks whereas presenting on stage:

“I stated, look, we’ll break this man up—that is earlier than I discovered the info of life—I stated we’ll break ’em up,” he continued. “They stated ‘very exhausting’, I stated ‘Why?’ I stated, what percentages of the market does he have? ‘Sir, he has 100%.’”

Trump continued, “I stated, ‘Who the hell is he? What’s his identify?’ ‘His identify is Jensen Huang, Nvidia, ‘ I stated, ‘What the hell is Nvidia?’ I’ve by no means heard of it earlier than.”

President Trump then summarized his AI Motion Plan:

“I figured we might go in and we might kind of break them up somewhat bit, get them somewhat competitors, and I discovered it’s not straightforward in that enterprise.”

In keeping with Tom’s {Hardware}, Trump even claimed that he urged placing collectively “the best minds” to work “hand in hand for a few years” to attempt to match Nvidia’s success. He was then informed it might take 10 years to meet up with Nvidia, and provided that Huang ran the corporate “completely incompetently any longer.” He concluded: “After which I obtained to know Jensen, and now I see why.”

The so-called AI Motion Plan outlines how President Trump needs to safe US supremacy within the discipline of synthetic intelligence.