Anthropic calls for tougher GPU export controls as Nvidia's CEO implores Trump to spread the AI love

+Comment Anthropic has urged the White House to further tighten so-called AI diffusion rules – which are already set to hurt Nvidia and co by limiting or blocking the sale of higher-end GPUs and accelerators outside the US and a select few allies from mid-May.

On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based chatbot maker said in a briefing note these looming export controls won't go far enough to stem the flow of smuggled chips fueling China's continued advancements in artificial intelligence.

Overall, Anthropic wants tougher limits on not only the legit sale of AI-targeted processors – particularly those from Nvidia – to various nations, but also a hard crackdown on smugglers using countries where said chips are still legal as a proxy to sneak them into China against US export rules.

This comes after Western AI companies were spooked when China's DeepSeek released in late January a free LLM that beat their ...