Nvidia Corp CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) on Wednesday warned that China “is going to win” the race to develop next-generation artificial intelligence (AI), urging Washington to speed up its efforts.
The head of the US chip giant told the Financial Times that Beijing’s energy subsidies were boosting its drive to build cutting-edge semiconductors used to power AI technology.
“China is going to win the AI race,” the British newspaper cited him as saying at an event in London.
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“As I have long said, China is nanoseconds behind America in AI,” he said in a social media post by Nvidia.
“It’s vital that America wins by racing ahead and winning developers worldwide,” he said.
California-based Nvidia last week became the world’s first US$5 trillion company, although its market cap has receded since then to about US$4.7 trillion.
Top-end Nvidia chips — used to train and power generative AI systems — are not sold in China due to US national security concerns and Chinese government bans.
Earlier this week the White House said it was still not interested in allowing Nvidia to sell its advanced Blackwell chip series in China.
The US has cited the risk of giving China a military advantage as a reason for the block.
Huang has repeatedly petitioned Washington to relax its restrictions on Nvidia chip exports, saying that the policy only drives China to advance its own technology.
The leather jacket-clad businessman criticized new rules on AI introduced by some US states to the Financial Times, contrasting it to China, where the state is subsidising electricity to power the technology.
Western states including the US and Britain are being held back by “cynicism” over AI, he said.
Experts say that Chinese chipmakers would struggle to match Nvidia’s tech prowess before the end of the decade. Challenges include building the right software to harness the chips’ power, and upgrading manufacturing tools.
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