Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: ‘China is going to win the AI race,’ FT reports
Item 1 of 2 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends an event at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Nov 5 (Reuters) – 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.
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“As I have long said, China is nanoseconds behind America in AI,” Nvidia CEO Jensen 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.
China’s access to advanced AI chips, particularly those produced by Nvidia — the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization — remains a flashpoint 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.
Nvidia has not applied for U.S. export licenses to sell the chips in China, citing Beijing’s stance toward the company, CEO Jensen Huang previously said.
Trump added that Washington would allow China to engage with Nvidia, but “not in terms of the most advanced” semiconductors.
Reporting by Anusha Shah and Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona
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