Nvidia's Surprising AI Origin Story

From AI-powered cars to crypto and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, tiny Nvidia chips play an outsized role in facilitating our daily routines. Before it became the world’s most valuable chipmaker, worth more than $3 trillion, the company had the more humble calling of manufacturing graphics cards for video game consoles. How will Nvidia further harness the power of its earliest innovation with advanced AI?

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00:00 Introduction
01:08 Nvidia's origin story
02:10 From dinosaurs to video games
03:50 Solving complex tasks
04:30 GPUs, crypto, GenAI and cats
06:15 Big Tech and gaming
08:00 Beyond gaming and Gen AI

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[notKhalid]

*main source of revenue to something of a rounding error*
let that sink in

[BetterSubstance]

NVIDIA is the perfect example of when preparation meets opportunity (AI hype). Similar to Novo Nordisk and their weight loss drugs

[ahpesh]

He said the thing. The said the thing with 3 in the end.

I definitely did not expect that reference here.

[BuddhaKING]

Finally a piece of media that breaks down why Nvidia is where it is and how Ai propelled it

[snail_scribbles]

Loved all the hidden retro game references!

[SendPie]

Half life 3 such a gamer thing to say!

[rmtweb]

Great video and explanation of Nvidia and why it has risen so fast to dominate AI

[matthew.m.stevick]

*JENSEN & NVidia*
Greatest Founder & CEO created the greatest company in history
🖤💚📈🇺🇸

[terminator]

Paid 2K for a 3090 in the crypto frenzy

[naryah]

Nvidia is spelled like ENVIDIA IN SPANISH which means ENVY. KINDA SMART I THINK

[Alex-xqd]

Great summary of why NVIDIA is so up and down in the market these days.

[anissamelton]

Could you make more videos on swing trading?

[TomMerritt]

I pronounce it Jen-sun Hwong. But what do I know. I do know I love this reporting. And it’s reference to dinosaurs.

[elbozo]

2:55 has this lady ever touched a PC before??? A fractions of gamers replace their graphics cards that often. ESPECIALLY with how ridiculously expensive they’ve gotten. Newer games are more demanding, yes, but obviously they’ll still run well on older hardware if you don’t crank their graphics settings to the peak.

[AdelLortie]

It seems I got a profitable strategy... Thank you very much for teaching stuff like this!

[AndrewLanxonPhotography]

Love the gaming references throughout this -- the backdrop is from Half Life!

[RenatoAragao-co]

Друг, это понятно что на байбит работаешь, но людям нужно говорить о том, что Байбит стал блокировать первое пополнение на 24 часа, это нужно иметь ввиду

[merrymachiavelli]

I counter point not mentioned in this video is that people are increasingly playing older games for longer. People are still paying Skyrim and World of Warcraft and a bazillon other games that came out originally in the 2000s and early 2010s. I think after a certain point there are diminishing returns to 3D graphics. Given people have only a finite amount of time, and populations in developed markets aren't growing much anymore, one would expect this trend to increasing eat in to demand for next-gen games and new game sales.

[Unalive-Aizz]

Pretty sure nvidia was already a succesful company before Ai 😅😅

[__-tzxx]

7:53 I was just thinking about how the early 2000s we had those Nokia phones and didn't use texting and I thought it would be so cool if it could do email and things which Smart phones can do today. I guess now is like the early 2000s but with AI instead of phones.