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How Nvidia Came to Rule AI

This week we chart the rise of Nvidia, the company whose chips, servers, and data centers have fueled the growth of artificial intelligence.

Lauren Goode: OK. We brought Will on, because today we are talking about the wild rise of Nvidia, the company that started in the 1990s selling graphics chips for video games on PCs. When the Transformer stuff happened, it was the beginning of this generative AI language model chatbot era, where things really gathered a lot of steam and took off massively as we've seen. I think it probably also reflects the fact that, as we've seen AI take off, a lot of the really key players in it that are doing the algorithms like Google, Meta, Microsoft have studied to build their own chips.

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