I think the easiest argument is that you don't need a grand Chinese conspiracy to explain mutually aligned self interest....

Jenson Huang has been in support of open-weight AI development and by extension selling to any and everyone both on a personal philosophical level and from a basic profit-driven perspective as the CEO of the company selling the mining tools for the gold rush.

Nvidia as a basic profit-seeking firm pursuing a profit and sustainability growth strategy has a vested interest in seeing Nvidia chips in Chinese data centers and having Chinese AI companies using Nvidia chips over huawei or someone else. Again, they are the people selling the mining tools for the gold rush. Of course they want to be the main supplier in the biggest gold rush markets with the deepest pockets.

And Trump's lifestream is sustained by McDonalds and grifting.

Everything that has taken place is basically exactly what these people have wanted to do with or without this person in place.

Maybe she's an asset, maybe she's not. But it feels like a bit of a red herring that I am not sure what I am supposed to do with it if it is the case she's an asset? Other then be a shocked and horrified peasant that will not question when the US government moves to intensify the Cold War posture and put more protectionism around US AI and chip manufacturing that moves us closer to a cartelification of the tech manufacturing and AI industry that all the AI ceo's want to happen.

She just wanted access to GPUs. Whether many went illegally to China, or legally to datacenters that serve Chines market, is just a bigger scale of what I offer every day for a 5090. Doesn't make either of us a spy. Bitch is just prettier than me.

Not from ML but do you have evidence that she is a Chinese spy?

Doesn't break any Chinese laws to import GPUs. China's production capacity for high end GPUs is still not high enough to meet all demand. Jensen's fraud of "Must make China use Nvidia tech stack" was always a lie because Huwei GPUs are cuda compatible. Huwei clusters also outperform Nvidia on $/networked flops and $/vram.

This front has been known for over a year. You can find Reuters or the Guardian reporting on it.

And while you are overstating Chinese corporate ownership(its more like having stakes in companies that compose 60% of their GDP, and a lot of that is concentrated in the commanding heights and the rest is often minority stakes through state linked investment firms), that sort of just makes any and everyone a "spy" for the CCP if that is the criteria.

Which then sort of makes that designation functionally useless and taken to it's logical conclusion would mean any romantic relationship with Chinese business leaders by Americans in positions of influence or power is fraternizing with a spy

And from there what exactly is the allegation? Nvidia has a vested interest in wanting their products to be integral to AI everywhere. Including China. This is not a viewpoint Huang just established last year. It's been his perspective from the jump, and part of a broader libertarian ethos.

Frankly, I would be asking who benefits domestically for this becoming a zeitgeist moment right now given the only thing truly new is the second affair? Like who might benefit from pushing out a CEO that supports open-weight AI strategies favored by China and putting government pressure on the company to shift away from that business strategy?

Exactly: she’s not a spy; she’s a smuggler. China has been trying to stop chip smuggling, which is why hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA chips have piled up in Hong Kong. China is doing this because its trying to develop its own domestic chip manufacturing in order to be independent. I highly doubt that she’s a spy for the Chinese state considering that, as a chip smuggler, she’s a been a thorn in their side.