Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday afternoon. Planning for the meeting started weeks ago prior to the DeepSeek-driven market volatility this week, according to a person familiar.

President Donald Trump will meet with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang at the White House on Friday as the US prepares to tee up tariffs on semiconductors, weighs the fate of a subsidy program and probes whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek skirted export controls to obtain the chipmakers’ products.

President Donald Trump is meeting Friday with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company designs and supplies the advanced computer chips that play an integral role in developing artificial intelligence.