Nvidia clearly doesn’t agree with Anthropic’s help for export controls on U.S.-made AI chips.
On Wednesday, Anthropic doubled down on its help for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s “Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion,” which might impose sweeping AI chip export restrictions beginning May 15.
The subsequent day, Nvidia responded with a really completely different tackle the upcoming controls.
“American companies ought to concentrate on innovation and rise to the problem, moderately than inform tall tales that giant, heavy, and delicate electronics are by some means smuggled in ‘child bumps’ or ‘alongside dwell lobsters,’” a spokesperson for Nvidia instructed CNBC, in reference to Anthropic’s claims of how these AI chips are being smuggled into international locations focused by the U.S. controls, like China.
Export restrictions would damage Nvidia’s international income stream. Nvidia just lately said {that a} new licensing requirement for its H20 AI chips to be offered in China may value the corporate $5.5 billion in Q1 of its 2026 fiscal 12 months.
TechCrunch reached out to Nvidia for remark.
