China will beat US in AI race: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
The official urged America to lead by expanding its global developer base
Jensen Huang, CEO of American technology company Nvidia, has claimed that China will beat the United States in the artificial intelligence (AI) race.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Financial Times’ Future of AI Summit, Huang stated, “China is going to win the AI race. As I have long said, China is nanoseconds behind America in AI. It’s vital that America wins by racing ahead and winning developers worldwide.”
Recently, the AI chip leader’s chief said that the U.S. could win the AI battle if the world, including China’s massive developer base, ran on Nvidia systems. However, he added that the Chinese government had 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 capitalization), is still a powder keg in its tech rivalry with the U.S, as both nations vie for supremacy in cutting-edge computing and AI.
At the Nvidia developers’ conference held in Washington in October, the CEO remarked, “We want America to win this AI race. No doubt about that. We want the world to be built on the 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.”
Meanwhile, in a recent interview, U.S. President Donald Trump had said that Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell chips should be reserved exclusively for American customers.
Citing Beijing’s stance toward the company, though Nvidia has not applied for U.S. export licenses to sell the chips in China, President Trump added that Washington would allow China to engage with Nvidia, but not in terms of the most advanced semiconductors.