Published On 6/11/2025
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang expects China to overtake the United States in the AI race, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
“China will win the AI race,” Huang told the newspaper on the sidelines of the Future of Artificial Intelligence Summit organized by the Financial Times.
“As I have said for a long time, China is only slightly behind America in the field of artificial intelligence,” Huang said in a statement published on the
The head of the leading AI chip company said in October that the United States could win the AI battle if the world, including China’s huge developer base, relied on Nvidia’s systems.
However, he lamented that the Chinese government has starved Nvidia of its market, and China’s access to advanced AI chips, especially those produced by Nvidia, continues to be a flashpoint in its technology rivalry with the United States, as the two countries compete for supremacy in edge computing and artificial intelligence.
The importance of being in China
“We want America to win the AI race. There is no doubt about that,” Huang said at the NVIDIA Developer Conference held in Washington last month. “We want the world to be built on American technologies. That is absolutely true. But we also need a presence in China to win over its developers. A policy that causes America to lose half of the world’s AI developers is not beneficial in the long run, but rather does us more harm.”
US President Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast last Sunday that Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell chips should be reserved exclusively for American customers.
Huang previously said that Nvidia had not applied for US export licenses to sell chips in China, citing Beijing’s stance toward the company. Trump added that Washington would allow China to do business with Nvidia, but “not regarding more advanced semiconductors.”