{"id":193175,"date":"2024-07-19T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/how-nvidia-became-an-ai-giant"},"modified":"2024-07-19T10:24:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T15:24:45","slug":"how-nvidia-became-an-ai-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/how-nvidia-became-an-ai-giant","title":{"rendered":"How Nvidia became an AI Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-nvidia-became-an-ai-giant3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It all started at a Denny\u2019s in San Jose in 1993. Three engineers\u2014Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem\u2014gathered at the diner in what is now the heart of Silicon Valley to discuss building a computer chip that would make graphics for video games faster and more realistic. That conversation, and the ones that followed, led to the founding of Nvidia, the tech company that soared through the ranks of the stock market to briefly top Microsoft as the most valuable company in the S&amp;P 500 this week.<\/p>\n<p>The company is now worth over $3.2 trillion, with its dominance as a chipmaker cementing Nvidia\u2019s place as the poster child of the artificial intelligence boom\u2014a moment that Huang, Nvidia\u2019s CEO, has dubbed \u201cthe next industrial revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On a conference call with analysts last month, Huang predicted that the companies using Nvidia chips would build a new type of data center called \u201cAI factories.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started at a Denny\u2019s in San Jose in 1993. Three engineers\u2014Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem\u2014gathered at the diner in what is now the heart of Silicon Valley to discuss building a computer chip that would make graphics for video games faster and more realistic. That conversation, and the ones that followed, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}