NVIDIA

NVIDIA is a multinational technology company founded in 1993 that designs and manufactures graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units. Originally focused on gaming graphics, NVIDIA's GPUs became the dominant hardware accelerators for machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads in the 2010s and 2020s, powering most large language models and deep learning systems. The company's CUDA software platform created a moat around GPU computing, making NVIDIA processors the de facto standard for AI training and inference. By 2024, NVIDIA had become one of the world's most valuable companies, briefly surpassing other tech giants in market capitalization, driven by explosive demand for AI infrastructure.