Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns China will ‘win the AI race’: report

Western countries, including the US and Britain, are being held back by ‘cynicism’ over AI, Huang says

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks at a press conference in Berlin on November 4, 2025. Photo: Reuters

Published: 4:20pm, 6 Nov 2025

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned that China “is going to win” the race to develop next-generation artificial intelligence, urging Washington to speed up its efforts.

The head of the world’s first company to reach US$5 trillion in market value told The Financial Times that Beijing’s energy subsidies were boosting its drive to build cutting-edge semiconductors used to power AI technology developments.

“China is going to win the AI race,” the British newspaper cited him as saying on Wednesday at an event in London.

“As I have long said, China is nanoseconds behind America in AI,” he added in a statement posted on X by Nvidia.

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

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has repeatedly petitioned US authorities to relax restrictions on the company’s AI chip exports, saying that the policy was helping China push forward its own technology. Photo: Shutterstock

After becoming the world’s first US$5 trillion company last week, California-based Nvidia’s market cap has receded since then to around US$4.7 trillion.

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