Trump’s address at Davos featured a parade of dubious claims about peace deals, technology war, and his country’s dominance in windfarms. His many assertions ranged from exaggerated comments and false statements.
'We're leading by China'
Amid rising global tensions, Trump pointed to US advances and claimed the country was leading the world in artificial intelligence, even ahead of China.
“We’re leading the world in AI by a lot. We’re leading China by a lot,” he said.
The question remains what is the AI advancement, which Trump has been discussing so far. Prominent figures in the AI industry have assessed the remark differently.
Nvidia's chief says China is just seconds behind US
Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, said in September that China was “nanoseconds” behind the US. The White House AI czar, David Sacks, estimated in June that Chinese models lag by “three to six months”.
Despite US restriction on Nvidia’s H-200 advanced chips, Chinese companies such as DeepSeek have released models that rival America’s best AI chatbots.
Huang also said that China is almost at the same level as the US in certain areas, close enough that the lead could disappear quickly.
'China does not have any windmills': Trump
“China makes almost all of the windmills, and yet I haven’t been able to find any windfarms in China. Did you ever think of that? It’s a good way of looking. You know, they’re smart. China is very smart. They make them. They sell them for a fortune. They sell them to the stupid people that buy them, but they don’t use them themselves,” Trump said.
The claim that Trump made stands incorrect as China has more wind capacity than any other country and twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined altogether.
Trump has dominance all across the world, the AI change is changing as he failed in the tech war which he himself launched.
China has advanced itself with Artificial Intelligence, whereas the US maintains lead in chip design. The imposition of tariffs by Trump are not focused on shielding the present, but rather in securing the future.
Even the big tech companies and their CEO has repeatedly stated that China has the best tech and AI firms like Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, and much more.
Trump highlighted that AI data centers require more than double the US's current energy capacity, proposing that tech firms build their own nuclear or power plants with 3-week federal approvals to avoid grid collapse.
