SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Nvidia ( NVDA ) CEO Jensen Huang discussed concerns with Huawei Technologies Co.'s  growing artificial intelligence capabilities with U.S. lawmakers, according to a senior congressional committee staff source.

The issues were raised during a closed-door meeting between Nvidia ( NVDA ) executives and the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Among the topics discussed were Huawei's artificial intelligence chips and how restrictions on Nvidia's ( NVDA ) chips in China could make Huawei's chips more competitive.

"If DeepSeek R1 had been trained on (Huawei chips) or a future open-source Chinese model had been trained to be highly optimized to Huawei chips, that would risk creating a global market demand for Huawei chips," the senior staff source said.