Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has called for the United States and China to cooperate on artificial intelligence safety, according to a report from The Tech Buzz — a striking position from the head of a company caught squarely between Washington's export controls and Beijing's push for chip self-sufficiency.

The Nvidia chief's appeal lands at an awkward moment. His company sells the H100 and H200 data-center GPUs that power most large AI model training outside China, yet US rules have barred shipments of its most advanced accelerators to Chinese customers since 2022, with tighter curbs following in 2023. Nvidia then built the compliant H20 variant specifically for that market. China has answered with its own restrictions, including export controls on gallium and rare-earth materials that feed global chip production.

So when the CEO of the world's most valuable semiconductor company says the two rivals should work together on AI safety, he's speaking from the center of the storm.

What did Huang actually propose?

According to The Tech Buzz, Huang argued that AI safety cannot be secured by any single country acting alone. The technology is global. Its risks are global. And the two nations building the most advanced AI systems — one on Nvidia silicon, one increasingly on domestic accelerators from Huawei and others — share an interest in keeping those systems under control.

The report frames his comments as a call for open scientific exchange on safety standards, rather than any relaxation of the export-control regime that governs his own product line.

Why does this matter commercially?

Huang's stance carries weight because Nvidia's fortunes hinge on both markets. Before the export curbs tightened, China accounted for roughly a fifth of Nvidia's data-center revenue — business the company has since written down and redirected elsewhere as compliant designs replaced barred products.

At the same time, Nvidia's Chinese customers face a growing menu of domestic alternatives, and Beijing has made replacing foreign AI chips a stated policy priority. Every call for cooperation from Huang reads, in part, as an argument for keeping Nvidia inside the largest AI market outside the United States.

A safety-dialogue framing lets him make that case without asking Washington to loosen controls directly.

What comes next?

The Tech Buzz report does not indicate whether Huang's proposal has drawn any response from US or Chinese officials. But with Washington reviewing its China chip policy and Beijing accelerating domestic accelerator programs, the question of whether AI rivals can collaborate on safety — even as they compete on silicon — will define the next phase of the industry.