Nvidia’s AI Revolution. Story Behind How it Became a Trillion-Dollar Company
$200B in a Day ! Nvidia dominates the GPU market, capturing 88% of all GPUs worldwide.
Background
Nvidia is a company that has been around for over 30 years. It started out as a gaming company, but it has since transformed itself into an AI company. NVIDIA is a leading provider of graphics processing units (GPUs) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Nvidia’s GPUs are used in a wide range of AI applications, including self-driving cars, facial recognition, and natural language processing.
NVIDIA’s market cap has surged in recent months, reaching $963.19 billion as of May 29, 2023.
This jump is due to a number of factors, including the growing demand for GPUs for gaming, data center, and AI applications. NVIDIA is also benefiting from the increasing adoption of cloud computing, which is driving demand for its AI solutions. The company is well-positioned for continued growth in the years to come, and its market cap is likely to continue to rise.
From Gaming to AI
Nvidia’s shares have risen by more than 150% this year, and it’s set to become the first company in the chip industry to hit $1 trillion market capitalization.
The success of the company can be attributed to its high-performance GPU cards that are used in gaming, crypto mining, and particularly AI applications.
Nvidia started as a gaming company selling graphic processing units (GPUs), but it became more than that. Miners found uses for their GPUs in cryptocurrency mining because they needed powerful processing. Then, Nvidia transformed itself into an AI company, providing AI-related companies with its famous graphic cards that could enhance the computational power of computers.
A Journey to AI
Nvidia’s success has been many years in the making. The company’s AI journey began in 2006, when it added something called CUDA to its GPUs. CUDA is a computing architecture integrated into every one of Nvidia’s GPUs. This opened up the hardware for software developers to tinker with, and revolutionized the possibilities of what the chips could achieve.
Today, 88% of the GPUs in the world are controlled by Nvidia.
Its AI chips grew by 14% in the first quarter while its rivals, AMD and Intel, didn’t grow and saw declines in their businesses.
In 2010, Nvidia made a breakthrough when it used GPUs to train a machine learning model that could identify cats in YouTube videos. This was a major milestone, and it showed the world the potential of GPUs for AI.
The Big Bang and ChatGPT
Nvidia’s success story came to the forefront with the famous ChatGPT, the supercomputer behind OpenAI’s revolutionary language model that needed 10,000 of Nvidia’s famous graphic chips.
The 10,000 chips that were used to train ChatGPT cost a total of $100 million. Each chip cost $10,000, so the total cost can be calculated by multiplying the number of chips by the cost per chip
.The event shed light on the power of Nvidia’s graphic cards in AI application development and marked the turning point for Nvidia’s success. Nvidia’s AI business has continued to grow in recent years.
In Q1 2023, the company’s AI chip business grew by 14%, AMD did not grow and Intel’s business division decreased by 39%.
This growth is being driven by the increasing demand for AI applications in a wide range of industries.
The Race for 1 TRILLION USD
Nvidia’s overnight success was a long time coming, but the company seems to be leading the race to the trillion-dollar throne.
The company’s projections show that it will make $11 billion in the next quarter, which is a whopping 50% higher than analysts’ predictions.
With every company wanting to use AI, it looks like the AI race is Nvidia’s to lose now. Competitors AMD and Intel are not even close in the race for market share.
The Wrap
Nvidia is a company that is changing the world. The company’s GPUs are at the heart of many of the most important AI applications, and its AI business is growing rapidly. Nvidia is well-positioned for continued growth in the years to come, and it is likely to become a trillion-dollar company in the not-too-distant future.
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