What Jensen Huang's resignation means for Nvidia, global AI race
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[0:00] Earlier, I spoke with former President
[0:01] Biden's then special adviser on AI. His
[0:04] name is Ben Buchanan about what this
[0:05] means for Nvidia and the global AI race.
[0:08] Ben is the author of the new book, The
[0:11] Bitter Struggle: Super Intelligence,
[0:13] Superpowers, and the Fate of the World.
[0:14] Here is some of our conversation, and it
[0:17] picks up with his stuff about Jensen
[0:19] Wong and Alice Wong.
[0:22] I don't often start, Ben, by reading
[0:24] from the book, but I am today for
[0:26] obvious reasons. Page 76.
[0:29] Mega Speed, a company that spun off from
[0:32] a Chinese firm in 2023 and claimed to be
[0:34] wholly Singaporean, became Nvidia's
[0:37] largest Southeast Asia buyer almost
[0:40] overnight. The company's top executive
[0:43] developed a close relationship with
[0:45] Wong, Jensen Wong, and the firm imported
[0:48] billions of dollars worth of Nvidia
[0:50] chips. Well, the story has gone on from
[0:52] there, and we are where we are. What
[0:55] does it tell us? I think of course this
[0:58] is a sexy story. It's a spy story. But
[1:02] more than that, when you put the
[1:04] salaciousn