Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang warned that China will beat the US in the artificial intelligence race, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
“China will win the AI race,” Huang told the newspaper on the sidelines of the Financial Times’s Future of AI Summit.
“As I’ve long said, China is nanoseconds behind the US in AI,” the Nvidia CEO said in a statement posted on X late on Wednesday.
“It is critically important that the US wins by pulling ahead and winning global developers,” he added.
Huang said in October that the US could win the AI war if the world, including China’s massive developer population, ran on Nvidia’s system. However, he lamented that the Chinese government had shut its market out.
China’s access to advanced AI chips remains a focal point in its technological rivalry with the US, as both nations compete for dominance in cutting-edge computing and AI.
“We want the US to win this AI race,” Huang stated.
“We want the world to be built on the US technology stack. Absolutely. But we also need to be in China to win their developers. A policy that causes the US to lose half the world’s AI developers is not good in the long run and it is hurting us more,” he added.
US President Donald Trump said in an interview on Sunday that Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell chips should be limited to US customers.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang previously said the company has not applied for an export license to sell chips to China, given Beijing’s stance towards the company.
