Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the United States in the artificial intelligence race, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

¡°China is going to win the AI race,¡± 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,¡± Huang said in a statement posted on X late on Wednesday.

¡°It¡¯s vital that America wins by racing ahead and winning developers worldwide,¡± he added.

The artificial intelligence chip leader¡¯s chief said in October that the U.S. can win the AI battle if the world, including China¡¯s massive developer base, runs on Nvidia systems. However, he lamented that the Chinese government has shut it out of its market.

China¡¯s access to advanced AI chips, particularly those produced by Nvidia ¡ª the world¡¯s most valuable company by market capitalization ¡ª remains a flash point in its tech rivalry with the United States, as both nations vie for supremacy in cutting-edge computing and artificial intelligence.

¡°We want America to win this AI race. No doubt about that,¡± Huang said in the Nvidia developers¡¯ conference held in Washington last month.

¡°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.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday that Nvidia¡¯s most advanced Blackwell chips should be reserved exclusively for American customers.

Nvidia has not applied for U.S. export licenses to sell the chips in China, citing Beijing¡¯s stance toward the company, Huang previously said.

Trump added that Washington would allow China to engage with Nvidia, but ¡°not in terms of the most advanced¡± semiconductors.