NVIDIA
The chip company whose GPUs and CUDA platform power nearly all modern AI training and inference.
AI hardwareGPUs and acceleratorsCUDA software platform
Visit NVIDIA - Founded
- 1993
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, USA
- Funding
- Publicly traded; among the world's most valuable companies
- Founders
- Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
Notable Products
- H100 and Blackwell GPUs
- CUDA
- NVIDIA NIM
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang (still CEO), Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem as a graphics chip company for gaming. Its 2006 release of the CUDA software platform turned its GPUs into general-purpose computing engines.
Impact
When deep learning took off — work pioneered by researchers like Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun — CUDA-enabled GPUs proved ideal for training neural networks, making NVIDIA the indispensable hardware supplier of the AI era. Its data center GPUs gate how fast AI labs can scale, and the company’s rise made it one of the most valuable businesses on earth.