Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his appearance at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday to draw a clear line against the growing chorus of AI leaders calling for development slowdowns. In a candid onstage moment, Huang took a live phone call from President Donald Trump and told the audience of venture capitalists that "we're not going to let an AI slowdown happen."
The remarks put Huang in direct opposition to a loose agreement signed over the weekend by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk. Those leaders declared their aim to "pace the frontier" through embedded third-party auditors, domestic lab regulation, and a global slowdown agreement.
Huang's stance reflects Nvidia's position as the primary hardware supplier powering the AI boom. Any slowdown in AI development would directly impact demand for Nvidia's GPUs, which have become the backbone of AI training and deployment infrastructure worldwide.
The All-In Summit, hosted by venture capitalists Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, and White House advisers David Friedberg and David Sacks, has become a key venue for tech leaders to shape policy conversations directly with government officials.
The public rift raises fundamental questions about whether the AI industry can self-regulate or whether competing commercial interests will prevent meaningful safety guardrails from taking shape.
