Huang met with Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), who serves as vice chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence.
Warner told reporters he discussed a range of AI-related topics with the Nvidia CEO, from jobs fallout to national security to data centers. He also noted that Huang is "advocating strongly for open-source models."
"He makes a compelling argument," Warner said. "Here's the thing, it's happening so quick. Six months ago, I was much more sympathetic to the idea of closed-source models because that's when Claude came out and that's where kind of the state of play was."
"Now that we've seen some of these Chinese models like Kimi come out, and more and more American companies go to open-source, I'm not sure this is a genie we can put back in the bottle in terms of open-source," he added. "But I'm still thinking this through."
The recent release of Kimi K3, a new model from the Chinese startup Moonshot AI, spurred fears in Washington and Silicon Valley that China is catching up to the U.S. on AI.
Notably, Kimi is an open-weight model, meaning the ways it is trained to sift through information and formulate answers are public.
Open-source models, by contrast, are fully public and can be downloaded and customized by anyone. Both types of models are at the center of a debate in Washington over the future of AI.
China has focused on producing cheaper, open-source models, raising concerns that U.S. companies may turn to these as an alternative to more expensive American-made models.
Amid concerns about potential limits on such technology, Nvidia joined dozens of other tech companies last week on an open letter urging U.S. policymakers not to overregulate open-weight models.
Huang highlighted the letter in his first-ever post on X, arguing the world "needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models."
"AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country," he wrote. "Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty."
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