Nvidia launches corporate PAC, expanding Washington footprint

Technology giant Nvidia is entering the election spending arena, launching a new corporate political action committee funded by employees.

Nvidia filed a statement of organization Thursday, with the PAC’s official name being the Nvidia Corporation Employees Federal Political Action Committee. The super PAC, first reported by Bloomberg Government , will be funded by eligible employees who can give up to $5,000.

The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The donations will be publicly reported through Federal Election Commission filings.

It is the latest move in Washington for Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang, who developed a strong relationship with President Trump at the start of his second term. Huang has met with administration officials and lawmakers on Capitol Hill numerous times this year, as Washington debates how to regulate artificial intelligence.

While seen as a star in Silicon Valley for leading one of the world’s most valuable companies, Trump said he did not know who Huang was until recently.

After the Biden administration clamped down on the export of semiconductor chips, Huang and Nvidia embraced Trump’s openness to boosting its products abroad.

Huang secured a major win late last year when Trump reversed course and allowed the firm to sell H20 chips, which were developed with U.S. exports in mind, to China for a 15 percent cut. Trump also cleared the way late last year for Nvidia to sell its more powerful H200 chips to China for a 25 percent cut of revenue.

Amid rising cybersecurity incidents involving AI and tighter competition with China, Huang has taken up the fight for more open-source model development in the U.S. Nvidia launched a new alliance last month for companies to work together on open-source cybersecurity tools.

Nvidia joins a number of other technology companies that have stepped into the campaign spending space.

Anthropic launched an employee-funded PAC in April called “AnthroPAC,” which raised more than $350,000 from employees in its first few months. It ended July with more than $276,000, according to spending records .

Other companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon have similarly structured PACs.