Jensen Huang Bloomberg Interview: Korea AI Golden Age, SK Group $500B Partnership, Open Models · 2026-07-25 · primary
Themes: US-China Framing · Economic Argument · Safety Debate
Open models keep AI continually available, rather than dependent on any one provider's decisions.
And so this is a perfect example of self-defense that's necessary. It's a perfect example of diversity of AI technology being necessary. And it's a perfect example of why **open models and open capabilities for self-defense is really important.**
Jensen Huang Bloomberg Interview: Korea AI Golden Age, SK Group $500B Partnership, Open Models · 2026-07-25
But it is also the canonical case that **single points of failure is where we have the greatest vulnerability.** We cannot have single points of failure as an industry, as a world. We should have distributed, massively distributed, self-defense.
Jensen Huang Bloomberg Interview: Korea AI Golden Age, SK Group $500B Partnership, Open Models · 2026-07-25
Safety and innovation trade off against one another: what makes a model safer makes it less capable or less widely available, so pushing on one goal costs ground on the other.
You know, I think the idea that the world is going to be one or the other is just completely wrong. And the idea that open models is somehow unsafe is also fundamentally wrong. And so we just want to make sure that people understand.
Jensen Huang Bloomberg Interview: Korea AI Golden Age, SK Group $500B Partnership, Open Models · 2026-07-25
Building national AI capacity on sovereign infrastructure is sound policy for smaller countries, not merely a way to sell deployments.
Well, we sense that there's a growing sentiment — and the wrong sentiment — for open models. It's really important to realize that **open models is essential for safety. Open models is essential for security, for cybersecurity. Open models are essential for innovation.** It's necessary for startups. It's necessary for sovereignty, company sovereignty.
Jensen Huang Bloomberg Interview: Korea AI Golden Age, SK Group $500B Partnership, Open Models · 2026-07-25
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