Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Joins Trump's Beijing Summit in Last-Minute Dramatic Move

In a dramatic last-minute development, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has joined US President Donald Trump's high-stakes diplomatic trip to Beijing. Huang, who was not on the original list of delegates, was reportedly called personally by Trump after the President saw reports of his absence and invited him to board the presidential plane during a stopover in Anchorage.

Huang joins Tesla's Elon Musk and Apple's Tim Cook as part of the US tech delegation. Artificial intelligence is expected to be a central agenda item at the summit, with officials examining whether the US and China can establish formal guardrails around AI development, amid fears of an accelerating AI arms race. A senior US technology official had recently accused China of 'industrial-scale distillation campaigns to steal American AI.'

Nvidia's involvement is particularly significant given the company's central role in supplying AI chips powering both American and Chinese AI development. Nvidia is scheduled to report its fiscal Q1 2027 earnings on May 20. Nvidia stock closed up over 2% on Wednesday as the news broke.