Nvidia surpassed Alphabet in market capitalization on Wednesday, solely a day after it overtook Amazon. Bloomberg is reporting that the chip maker’s inventory is now price $1.83 trillion, beating the Google proprietor’s $1.82 market cap by a hair. This makes Nvidia the world’s fourth most precious firm within the wake of the AI growth, after Microsoft ($3.04T), Apple ($2.84T) and Saudi Aramco. The corporate is at present making the H100 chip, which powers the vast majority of LLMs in use at this time, together with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the vast majority of AI initiatives from Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon.
The world’s largest tech firms are concerned in an AI chip arms race, with every of them hoping to create their very own GPU chip to topple Nvidia’s digital monopoly. Paradoxically, as Bloomberg notes, Nvidia’s prime gross sales of AI chips come from those self same firms. The Santa Clara-based agency is near releasing a superior AI chip, the H200, which has extra reminiscence capability and bandwidth than its predecessor. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that Nvidia has invested $30 billion right into a unit dedicated to serving to different firms make their very own customized AI chips. That means, even when firms choose to construct their very own AI chips, Nvidia might get a chunk of the motion.
In the meantime, direct rivals like Intel and AMD are engaged on their very own highly effective chips that might rival the H200.