Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang on Wednesday worked hard to influence Congress and the administration of US President Donald Trump on laws regarding semiconductors and artificial intelligence.
Mr Huang also appeared in a discussion hosted by Centre for Strategic and International Studies think tank, during which he spoke on securing American leadership in the AI race.
"China has twice the amount of energy we have as a nation and our economy is larger than theirs – it makes no sense to me," he said.
Mr Huang was saying that Beijing had some advantages with AI development and the energy required to train large language models.
"We're generations ahead on chips, but don't be complacent."
He has often spoken out against strict chip export policies that stop powerful central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) being sold to China.
An increasingly adversarial relationship with China prompted the US to take a close look at its semiconductor export policies
Proponents of the policies say they protect a US lead in the increasingly important global race for AI dominance.
Some technology executives, however, have suggested that the export policies give China an incentive to create its own semiconductor infrastructure, which could ultimately harm US influence around the world.
Before the CSIS event, Mr Huang met members of the Senate banking, housing and urban affairs committee, pushing to eliminate a provision in a bill that would make it even harder for his company to sell chips to China.
Mr Huang signed autographs for onlookers in the Capitol building, but not everyone was as welcoming.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren crticised what she described as his "closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill".
"Mr Huang should be brought in to testify publicly and under oath – not pushing his agenda in secret meetings," Ms Warren said.
US President Donald Trump is considering whether Nvidia should be allowed to sell its H200 GPUs to China.
Some White House officials have expressed concerns over national security and sought to keep China away from US-designed technology.
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