Name: How Nvidia Grew From Gaming To A.I. Giant, Now Powering ChatGPT
Uploaded: 2023-08-17T05:57:08.000Z
Duration: 17 min 54 s
Description: Thirty years ago, Taiwan immigrant Jensen Huang founded Nvidia with the dream of revolutionizing PCs and gaming with 3D graphics. In 1999, after laying off the...

This is what hundreds of millions of gamers in the

Nvidia's chips have been coveted by gamers shaping

what's possible in graphics and dominating the entire

market since it first popularized the term

graphics processing unit with the GeForce 256.

Now its chips are powering something entirely

ChatGPT has started a very intense conversation.

He thinks it's the most revolutionary thing since

Venture capital interest in AI startups has skyrocketed.

All of us working in this field have been optimistic

that at some point the broader world would

understand the importance of this technology.

And it's it's actually really exciting that that's

As the engine behind large language models like

ChatGPT, Nvidia is finally reaping rewards for its

investment in AI, even as other chip giants suffer in

the shadow of U.S.-China trade tensions and an ease

in the chip shortage that's weakened demand.

But the California-based chip designer relies on

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to

make nearly all its chips, leaving it vulnerable.

The biggest risk is really kind of U.S.-China relations

that's really the only thing that keeps me up at

This isn't the first time Nvidia has found itself

teetering on the leading edge of an uncertain

It's neared bankruptcy a handful of times in its

history when founder and CEO Jensen Huang bet the

Every company makes mistakes and I make a lot of them.

And some of them, some of them puts the company in

peril. Especially in the beginning, because we were

small and and we're up against very, very large

companies and we're trying to invent this brand new

We sat down with Huang at Nvidia's Silicon Valley

headquarters to find out how he pulled off this

latest reinvention and got a behind-the-scenes look at

all the ways it powers far more than just

Now one of the world's top ten most valuable companies,

Nvidia is one of the rare Silicon Valley giants that,

30 years in, still has its founder at the helm.

I delivered the first one of these inside an AI

supercomputer to OpenAI  when it was first created.

60-year-old Jensen Huang, a Fortune Businessperson of

the Year and one of Time's most influential people in

from Taiwan as a kid and studied engineering at

In the early 90s, Huang met fellow engineers Chris

Malachowsky and Curtis Priem at Denny's, where they

talked about dreams of enabling PCs with 3D

graphics, the kind made popular by movies like

If you go back 30 years, at the time, the PC revolution

was just starting and there was quite a bit of debate

about what is the future of computing and how should

And there was a large camp and rightfully so, that

believed that CPU or general purpose software was

And it was the best way to go for a long time.

We felt, however, that there was a class of

applications that wouldn't be possible without

The friends launched Nvidia out of a condo in Fremont,

for next version and Invidia, the Latin word for

envy. They hoped to speed up computing so much,

Typically sold as cards that plug into a PC's

motherboard, they accelerate - add computing

power - to central processing units, CPUs, from

You know, they were one among tens of GPU makers at

that time. They are the only ones, them and AMD

actually, who really survived because Nvidia

worked very well with the software community.

This is a business of figuring out things end to

But at the start, its future was far from guaranteed.

applications for it, frankly, and we smartly

chose one particular combination that was a home

run. It was computer graphics and we applied it

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