Trump's "bargaining tool": Nvidia will sell 18,000 of its latest AI chips to Saudi Arabia.

NVIDIA CEO Huang Renxun announced on Tuesday that NVIDIA will sell over 18,000 of its latest artificial intelligence chips to the Saudi company Humain. According to a joint statement from Saudi Arabia and the United States, NVIDIA's advanced Blackwell chips will be used in a 500-megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia. NVIDIA stated that its initial deployment will use its GB300 Blackwell chip, which is one of NVIDIA's most advanced artificial intelligence chips and was officially announced earlier this year. Tuesday's statement emphasized the importance of NVIDIA's chips as a bargaining tool for the Trump administration, as countries around the world are competing to purchase these chips for training and deploying advanced artificial intelligence software such as ChatGPT.