Nov 5 (Reuters) - Nvidia ( NVDA ) 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," Nvidia ( NVDA ) 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.

The artificial intelligence chip leader's chief in October

said that the U.S. can win the AI battle if the world, including

China's massive developer base, runs on Nvidia ( NVDA ) systems. He,

however, lamented that the Chinese government has shut it out of

its market.

China's access to advanced AI chips, particularly those

produced by Nvidia ( NVDA ) - 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 ( NVDA ) 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 ( NVDA ) most advanced Blackwell chips should be

reserved exclusively for American customers.

Nvidia ( NVDA ) 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 ( NVDA ), but "not in terms of the most advanced" semiconductors.