Thursday, February 6, 2025

Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang meets the White House team

Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA

Rise up to the challenge! Second-generation Chinese wrote to Trump, White House invites him to take on important tasks?
—“Second-generation Chinese” wrote to Trump and was invited to meet by the White House team

Editor : Fang Xun / Source : Next Apple / https://www.aboluowang.com/2025/0206/2171422.html / Image : Video Screenshot


以华制中?“二代华人”致信川普被白宫团队邀请会面_无忧资讯

The Chinese startup DeepSeek has emerged, claiming to be low-cost, high-performance and fully open-source, which has shocked the AI ​​hegemony planned by the United States. The American AI industry has risen up to fight back, and the most powerful and best-spoken one is the 28-year-old "second-generation Chinese" ScaleAI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang. A few days ago, he published an "open letter to President Trump" in the Washington Post at his own expense, emphasizing that the United States must win the AI ​​"war". After that, he was invited by the White House team to meet and discuss how to deal with the threat of China's DeepSeek.

According to U.S. media reports, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang will meet with members of Congress and Trump administration officials today (6 February 2025) and tomorrow (7 February 2025) to discuss the threat of Chinese AI models to the United States. Alexandr Wang became the world's youngest self-made billionaire in 2022. In an interview in January, he said that DeepSeek may obtain a large number of controlled chips, which made him a global headline.

According to a Central News Agency report, Sam Altman, CEO of artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, just came to Washington last week to show the latest model to the executive and legislative departments. Axios, a US news website, quoted sources today as saying that ScaleAI founder and CEO Wang Tao will also meet with lawmakers and government officials today and tomorrow.

Wang Tao said in an interview in January that the Chinese startup DeepSeek should have 50,000 Nvidia H100 chips to develop models, and the funds required to purchase these chips are much higher than the US$5.58 million (about NT$183 million) claimed by DeepSeek.

Wang Tao said that these chips are components that are prohibited from being exported to China, which directly challenges the US export control policy. In addition, the number of such chips owned by DeepSeek is likely to exceed outside expectations.

Scale AI provides AI services to private companies and governments, and recently published an "Open Letter to President Trump" in the Washington Post, emphasizing that the United States must win the AI ​​war. Its founder, Wang Tao, co-founded Scale AI in San Francisco in 2016 after dropping out of MIT.

Wang Tao has the same name as Wang Tao, the founder of China's drone giant DJI, but their rise to fame is completely different. Wang Tao, whose English name is Alexandr Wang, was born in 1997. At the age of 24, he became the world's youngest self-made billionaire. In 2023, he was listed in the "Time" magazine's top 100 AI figures.

"Time" reported that Wang Tao is a second-generation Chinese immigrant. After a trip to China in 2018, he began to talk about the threats posed by China's AI ambitions and contacted American officials who shared his sense of urgency.

Wang Tao's parents are both physicists who worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

The laboratory is one of the world's largest scientific research institutions and the site of the original development of nuclear weapons. It has more than 10,000 researchers and staff, covering national security, nuclear energy, outer space, renewable energy, medicine, nanotechnology and supercomputers.

"Time" pointed out that Wang Tao's upbringing instilled in him the belief that "breakthrough technology is actually the real key to national security." He said, "I know very well how important it is to have these technologies to deter opponents."

Wang Tao once briefed members of Congress on the development of AI behind closed doors, attended congressional hearings, and signed a contract with the Department of Defense. His arrival in Washington coincided with DeepSeek's suspected "overtaking on a curve", which sounded the alarm for the U.S. government and raised concerns about loopholes in export controls.

The United States banned the export of Nvidia's A100 and more powerful H100 chips to China and Hong Kong in September 2022. Nvidia later developed the slower A800 and H800 chips specifically for the Chinese market, but they were also banned from export in October 2023.

Recently, social media X reported that the U.S. State Department, TSMC and Nvidia are working together to block chip export loopholes. A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department responded to the Central News Agency's related inquiries by email yesterday and said that there was no comment on this.





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