Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei has spoken once again about selling NVIDIA's AI chips to China, claiming that the U.S. is providing Beijing with the weapon to get ahead in the AI race.
Anthropic's Amodei Argues that China Has Remained Behind in the AI Race Due to a Lack of Compute Power
The question of whether NVIDIA should be allowed to access the Chinese AI market has been discussed by several subject experts, but among them, Anthropic's CEO, Amodei, has opposed this decision, saying it could lead to "grave" consequences for America's AI lead. Now, speaking with Bloomberg Television, Amodei was asked about the Trump administration's decision to allow the export of the H200 AI chip to China, and he offered a rather aggressive analogy. He related the approval having a similar intensity to "selling nukes to North Korea", showing his opposition.
So I think this is crazy. I think it's a bit like, I don't know, like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and bragging, oh yeah, Boeing made the case. No, I wouldn't refer to any particular people, but I would just say that this particular policy.
This isn't the first time Amodei has spoken about US export decisions; back in May, Anthropic claimed that NVIDIA is "telling tales" to the current administration to get back into the Chinese AI market. The company also talked about how chip smuggling is prevalent within the mainland, through techniques like hiding chips in "prosthetic baby bumps." Anthropic's CEO has also publicly called out NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on other matters involving the AI race, so it would be fair to say that these firms have an "implied enmity".
Amodei argues that the US is granting Chinese AI giants the technology, which has put them at a disadvantage in developing capable frontier models, saying that companies like DeepSeek have publicly admitted they have fallen behind due to a lack of NVIDIA chips. Anthropic's CEO claims that even if the US allows the export of chips that are a "generation behind", like the Hopper-class, they still are competent compared to what China itself has in the domestic markets.
There are multiple narratives surrounding this talk, and NVIDIA's CEO has repeatedly spoken out against the "China hawks" in the Trump administration, while Anthropic has voiced support for export laws like the AI Diffusion policy. Both parties have presented solid arguments to support their positions, but in the end, it's the administration that will make the decision, and for now, NVIDIA is back in China.
About the author: Muhammad Zuhair is a hardware and technology reporter for Wccftech, specializing in the semiconductor industry and the complex interplay between technology, manufacturing, and geopolitics. His coverage focuses on the corporate strategies and technological roadmaps of industry giants like TSMC, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Intel. Zuhair's expertise lies in deconstructing complex topics such as fabrication nodes (e.g., 2nm process), the economic impact of policies like the CHIPS Act, and the strategic development of AI infrastructure from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel.
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