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Anthropic CEO Criticizes NVIDIA Over AI Chip Sales to China

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4.3 • 6 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's strong criticism of the Trump administration's decision to allow NVIDIA to sell AI chips to China, comparing it to selling nuclear weapons. We also explore the implications of his comments given NVIDIA's significant investment and partnership with Anthropic and how these actions reflect the high stakes in the AI race.


Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Amodei's Criticism
01:59 Context of Chip Sales and Amodei's Stance
05:28 National Security and Nuclear Analogy
08:36 Impact on Anthropic-NVIDIA Partnership

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, we're talking about what

0:04.5

Anthropic CEO Dario Amadeo has recently said at Davos. He's been criticizing Invidia and the Trump

0:11.2

administration in how they're handling AI chips getting sent to China. This is a really fascinating topic.

0:17.9

A lot of people are saying that he's talking his own book and wants his company

0:21.0

to be protected from China, but others say that he might actually have a point as he's bringing

0:25.4

up nuclear options, which are wild. So we're going to get into all of that on the show today.

0:31.1

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1:14.3

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1:11.2

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1:13.1

All right.

1:13.6

Let's get into what Dario Amadeo said.

1:15.6

So I think just as a little bit of a backup and a background on this,

1:19.3

last week, the Trump administration formally approved the sale of NVIDIA's H-200 chips.

1:25.5

And this is interesting because they had kind of previously walked back an earlier restriction.

1:30.0

They also approved some comparable AMD line chips, and all of these are going to be approved

1:35.5

to sell to China.

1:36.7

So they're not going to be the most cutting-edge processors that NVIDIA are AMD make, but they are

1:41.6

really powerful chips.

1:43.4

And what's really interesting is apparently

1:45.7

Dario Amadeo, the CEO of Anthropic, has been setting off alarm bells. And he recently on

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