Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged G20 leaders to embrace AI infrastructure or risk losing out on the next technology wave.
The appeal matters because Nvidia, the AI computing and semiconductor company, supplies much of the hardware and software that powers large AI models and has framed national AI capacity as a competitiveness issue.
“The worst outcome is that you don’t take advantage of it, that you are left behind,” Huang said.
Huang argued nations should view AI infrastructure like electricity, roads and the internet, building local compute to support researchers, students, startups and industry.
He told ministers countries do not need to compete across every layer of the AI stack and should instead pick where they can contribute and adopt AI across education, health care, manufacturing and science.
Huang pushed back on broad prohibitions and said regulation should target measurable, pragmatic harms rather than hypothetical scenarios, with companies taking responsibility for making systems safe.
He also said the United States is moving aggressively thanks to energy and regulatory conditions and that nearly $1 trillion could be invested in U.S. infrastructure this year.
