Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: ‘China is going to win the AI race,’ FT reports

LONDON - Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the United States in the artificial intelligence race, the Financial Times reported on Nov 5.

“China is going to win the AI race,” Mr Huang told the newspaper on the sidelines of the Financial Times’ Future of AI Summit.

“As I have long said, China is nanoseconds behind America in AI,” Mr Huang said in a statement posted on X late on Nov 5.

“It’s vital that America wins by racing ahead and winning developers worldwide,” he added.

The AI chip leader’s chief in October said that the US can win the AI battle if the world, including China’s massive developer base, runs on Nvidia systems.

He, however, lamented that the Chinese government has shut it out of its market.

China’s access to advanced AI chips, particularly those produced by Nvidia – the

world’s most valuable company

by market capitalisation – remains a flashpoint in its tech rivalry with the United States, as both nations vie for supremacy in cutting-edge computing and AI.

“We want America to win this AI race. No doubt about that,” Mr Huang said in the Nvidia developers’ conference held in Washington in October.

“We want the world to be built on American tech stack. Absolutely the case. But we also need to be in China to win their developers. A policy that causes America to lose half of the world’s AI developers is not beneficial in the long term, it hurts us more,” he added.

US President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Nov 2 that Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell chips should be

reserved exclusively for American customers

.

Nvidia has not applied for US export licences to sell the chips in China, citing Beijing’s stance towards the company, Mr Huang previously said.

Mr Trump added that Washington would allow China to engage with Nvidia, but “not in terms of the most advanced” semiconductors. REUTERS