Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too

Jensen Huang drew headlines at the All-In conference in Los Angeles when former President Donald Trump called him live on stage and Huang answered on speaker. Huang, wearing his characteristic alligator leather jacket, was handed a foldable phone to take the call in front of the audience.

The public conversation turned toward AI safety. Trump dismissed widespread worries about artificial intelligence as a "hoax," argued that the real beneficiaries of the panic are China and "political people," and described the technology as "bigger than the internet." During the exchange Huang told Trump that thousands in the audience were applauding.

Reporting on which handset Huang used was revised: an earlier version of this piece identified the phone as Apple's iPhone Duo, but that was corrected after review. The device observed onstage appears to be a Samsung Galaxy Fold 8.

Observers noted the market context around the moment: Nvidia's business depends largely on AI labs buying chips, and the company's share price had risen about 33% over the past year while dipping a few percentage points on the day of the conference. Whether Huang personally shares Trump's characterization of AI risk was not made clear during the onstage call.