Nvidia takes aim at Anthropic’s support of chip export controls

Nvidia clearly doesn’t agree with Anthropic’s assist for export controls on U.S.-made AI chips.

On Wednesday, Anthropic doubled down on its assist for the U.S. Division of Commerce’s “Framework for Synthetic Intelligence Diffusion,” which might impose sweeping AI chip export restrictions beginning Could 15.

The following 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 enormous, heavy, and delicate electronics are in some way smuggled in ‘child bumps’ or ‘alongside dwell lobsters,’” a spokesperson for Nvidia informed CNBC, in reference to Anthropic’s claims of how these AI chips are being smuggled into nations focused by the U.S. controls, like China.

In a press release to Trendster, an Nvidia spokesperson added that “China, with half of the world’s AI researchers, has extremely succesful AI consultants at each layer of the AI stack. America can not manipulate regulators to seize victory in AI.”

Export restrictions would damage Nvidia’s international income stream. Nvidia just lately acknowledged {that a} new licensing requirement for its H20 AI chips to be offered in China may price the corporate $5.5 billion in Q1 of its 2026 fiscal yr.

“Anthropic stands by its just lately filed public submission,” an Anthropic spokesperson informed Trendster.

This piece has been up to date to incorporate further commentary from Nvidia and Anthropic.