Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is warning that China will overtake America in the global artificial intelligence (AI) race.

The chipmaker's chief executive said the West is limiting its own progress in AI through excessive "cynicism," while pointing to China's lower energy costs and fewer regulatory hurdles as advantages, he told the Financial Times on Wednesday on the sidelines of the newspaper's Future of AI Summit.

"China is going to win the AI race," Huang said.

Huang also criticized new AI rules by states across the U.S. that could lead to greater regulations. He compared this to China’s energy subsidies , which lower costs for companies using Chinese AI chips, according to the Financial Times.

In a statement posted to X on Wednesday, Huang added that "China is nanoseconds behind A

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