Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and led it through three decades of transformation — from a graphics chip maker for video games into the company whose GPUs power the entire artificial intelligence revolution. Born in Tainan, Taiwan in 1963, Huang came to the US at age nine and earned degrees from Oregon State and Stanford. His decade-long bet on CUDA — the parallel computing platform that made GPUs programmable for AI — paid off spectacularly when deep learning exploded in 2012. By 2024, NVIDIA briefly became the most valuable company in the world, with a market cap exceeding $3 trillion, driven entirely by demand for AI training infrastructure.
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