World’s First $5 Trillion Company

Nvidia has become the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market valuation, as investors bet that demand for its artificial intelligence chips will continue at record levels across global industries.

Who Is Nvidi? Why Does It Matter?

Nvidia began in the 1990s as a designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming computers. Those chips were originally built to render visuals quickly, but their architecture also made them ideal for performing many calculations at once, which is a capability that later proved critical for artificial intelligence (AI).