NVIDIA and Openai executives reaction to Trump’s H-1B visa movements

Nafidia CEO Senson Huang and Openai On Monday, CEO Sam German commented on President Donald Trump’s decision to increase the cost of employing workers abroad with visas.

Trump announced on Friday that he would do Lift H-1B visa fees to $ 100,000, leave companies Jar. Employers must now have payment documents before submitting H-1B seam on behalf of the worker. The applicants will limit their seam for 12 months until the payment is made, according to what he said White House.

Huang and Germans responded to the changes in an interview with John Fort from CNBC, where they own executives Declare NVIDIA will invest $ 100 billion in Openai, where the artificial intelligence laboratory determines the construction of hundreds of billions of databases that depend on the AI ​​processors for Chipmaker.

“We want all of the brightest minds to the United States and remember that immigration is the basis of the American dream,” Huang said on Monday. “We represent the American dream. Therefore, I think immigration is really important for our company and it is a truly important for the future of our nation, and I am happy to see President Trump making the moves he makes.”

The CEO of Openai Sam Altman also expressed a positive look at Trump’s changes.

“We need to get the smartest people in the country, and simplify this process as well as a kind of financial incentive that looks good for me,” Altman said.

The new drawings of $ 100,000 will be a seismic transformation of the American technology and finance sectors, which depend on the H-1B program for high skills immigrants, especially from India and China. These two countries made up 71 % and 11.7 % of the visa owners last year, respectively.

Those who already have H-1B visas and are outside the United States will not do so Be required To pay the fees for re -entering. Many employers use H-1B workers to fill the gaps in these very artistic roles that have not been found in the American offer of employment.

– CNBC Tech Annie Palmer, to this report.

He watches: See the full CNBC interview with the CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang, Openai Sam Altman and Greg Brockman leaders