Huang was speaking to at a media briefing in Singapore on December 6. He is in Singapore for a short visit where he had meetings with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Jacqueline Poh, managing director of the Economic Development Board, as well as with startup enterpreneurs and other partners. Nvidia, which is valued at over US$1 trillion, is the market leader for graphics processing units (GPUs), the specialised chips used to accelerate the training and inference of large language models (LLMs) that power GenAI. Huang applauded Singapore's efforts to develop Southeast Asia's first LLM catering to the region's diverse culture, value systems and languages because no one would care more about multi-cultural Singapore than the country itself. "So Singapore must take control of its own LLM," he noted. "It is in the national interest to do this because you cannot outsource digital intelligence of Singapore when you own the LLM data. That is the most vital asset."