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I am traveling through Portugal now that Web Summit has wrapped up, so please enjoy this shortened edition.
Web Summit leaned heavily into Chinese founders and companies this year. The opening remarks from Web Summit co-founder Paddy Cosgrave drove the point home when he said the superstars of the future are coming from China, not California. He also gave a strong endorsement of China and open source technology when he noted that Chinese companies are building more of our shared future than anyone else.
These remarks carried a different kind of weight just a few days later as the news spread throughout the conference that Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang had resigned from his leadership post after admitting to an affair with an alleged spy.
The former CEO, after all, has been one of the strongest proponents for open source in the United States. And anyone who has followed the emergence of autonomous vehicle tech knows how central Nvidia is to that ecosystem.
Nvidia is a major supplier of AI computing technology to the industry — although the degree…
