Aside from running the world’s most valuable company, Jensen Huang is an unlikely figure to have gained President Donald Trump’s ear. The Taiwanese American founder of AI chipmaker Nvidia wants to export more to China at a time when the president is locked in a fiery trade war with the country. He has forthrightly declared immigration a boon for the American Dream, not a threat as Trump has suggested. And his wonky semiconductor business runs on entirely different principles than the bluste ry commercial real estate sector that brought Trump to prominence.

Yet Trump has repeatedly singled out the leather-jacket-wearing billionaire for praise this year, an indication of how vital Nvidia’s AI technology is to the president’s vision of America’s industrial rejuvenation. Last week, Trump cite

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