US Working on 'AI Package' to Export

I think it was a tremendous day for the country and, more broadly, we definitively turn the page on what the last administration had tried to do to really hamper this industry and choke it with a high level of regulation that didn't allow it to fully spread its wings. What was tremendous about the event yesterday was not only the President's speech, but the participation of the Vice President himself and five cabinet secretaries. This was a big moment for the American industry, and it really showed how committed this administration is to ensuring continued American dominance in this critical technology.

Well, we are racing ahead on all of them. I think the one piece that you didn't mention, which I think is also very critically important, is this focus on exporting American AI, this idea that we want the entire world to be running on an American artificial intelligence stack. That is our cloud, our chips, our algorithms—all of that needs to be exported and packaged to the world so that we become the ecosystem of choice globally. And that is something that Secretary Lutnick and Secretary of State Rubio have been tasked to work on and put together for the country. So between that and our very ambitious agenda on the actual infrastructure that's going to empower and is going to power this, there's a lot of work for us to get done in the next few months.

So that's being handled by BIS and Secretary Lutnick at Commerce. But generally speaking, what we're going to be doing, and through the executive order the President signed, the Department of Commerce is tasked to work with American industry to create packages. These are packages that we then can work with the State Department to go out and export around the world. And part of that, because Commerce will be at the table when these packages are being created with our great chip companies and our algorithm companies and our model companies, we'll be able to have packages which we believe will be able to make it through the export control restrictions of the Commerce Department and make them actually extraordinarily viable and very interesting and very appealing to lots of countries around the world who all are racing and very excited to have AI and deliver AI for their people.

You know, that's not something that I particularly focus on or look at. I think you have to talk to the Department of Justice and others. But to be honest, I think we are very blessed in the United States. We have the greatest technology companies in the world that are delivering the greatest products in the world that citizens of the world all want to use. If you just look at the numbers of usage for large language model builders, it's absolutely incredible. The entire world wants to run on American rails, and we need to make sure that the regulations are out of the way to make sure that we can get it out there, not only to Americans, but also globally.