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President Donald Trump and Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang. The biggest company in the world is Nvidia, and it’s been making the same product since 1993: a specialized computer chip called a GPU, or a graphics processing unit. Those chips do all the fancy, complicated math needed to display images, videos, and 3D graphics onto our screens. Back in the day, if you wanted to play “state-of-the-art” PC games like Unreal, Quake, or Half-Life, you likely bought one of Nvidia’s GPUs (more commonly called graphics cards at the time). “If you were a really serious gamer back in like 1998, you would be building your own high powered PC at home. You’d be up to your ears in circuit boards and soldering equipment,” Robbie Wheland, a tech and business reporter for The Wall Street Journal told Today, Explained co-host Noel King. “And you’d be buying one of Nvidia’s graphics cards, and putting that into your awesome high powered gaming computer that you would play on the internet.” Today, though, Nvidia’s product isn’t so niche. Their chips are more advanced, and they are now the hardware powering the artificial intelligence boom. “Think ChatGPT, Gemini, NotebookLM, or Claude,” Wheland said. Because Nvidia is now essential to the tech sector, that has made the company very important to the well-being of the entire American economy; the stock market can swing on whether Nvidia releases a good earnings report or a bad one. The company, and its founder Jensen Huang, have also become powerful players within American politics, foreign relations, and international diplomacy. Wheland broke down the story behind the company’s rise, its business dealings, and the founder’s friendship with President Donald Trump on Today, Explained. Below is an excerpt of their conversation, edited for length and clarity. There’s much more in the full podcast, so listen to Today, Explained wherever you get podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Pandora, and Spotify. Tell me about Jensen Huang, the man behind Nvidia. Jensen Huang is the co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia. He was born in Taiwan, which has really become the intellectual epicenter of the AI boom. And he moved to the US when he was a child. Today, he’s not only just the CEO of the largest company on Planet Earth, he’s also an incredibly influential and powerful person in foreign relations, in international diplomacy. He’s a very good friend of President Donald Trump. And I think it’s not a stretch to say he’s one of the most important individual people on Earth right now, just given how much power and how much economic might he oversees. If you go back to Trump’s inauguration, and you think about who was with him that day, many of them were tech CEOs, but Jensen Huang was not among them. Why wasn’t he there? My understanding is that Donald Trump maybe didn’t even know who Jensen was in January. He knew this was a guy who was a tech CEO, who had a very successful company. But when it came to his style of management; his style of deal making; and, more importantly, what Jensen could do for President Trump in terms of helping him negotiate international accords, he’s now become a show pony that Trump brings around to world leaders. He brags about how successful Huang is. He says this is really an example of American ingenuity and innovation. But, I don’t think any of that existed when Trump took office in January. Tell me about how this relationship develops, then, and evolves. I have to go to 2022; we’re in the Biden administration. What they did was they took certain products, certain classes of products, which generally meant very powerful microchips and said, “You can’t sell these overseas to certain companies.” At the time, the AI race was just really heating up. But Nvidia was not allowed to sell its chips in China, in particular, because there were serious national security concerns and serious concerns about competition and not letting China catch up with us. That was a big deal for Nvidia,…