How Nvidia Grew From Gaming To A.I. Giant, Now Powering ChatGPT

Thirty years ago, Taiwan immigrant Jensen Huang founded Nvidia with the dream of revolutionizing PCs and gaming with 3D graphics. In 1999, after laying off the majority of workers and nearly going bankrupt, the company succeeded when it launched what it claims as the world’s first Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Then Jensen bet the company on something entirely different: AI. Now, that bet is paying off in a big way as Nvidia’s A100 chips quickly become the coveted training engines for ChatGPT and other generative AI. But as the chip shortage eases, other chip giants like Intel are struggling. And with all it’s chips made by TSMC in Taiwan, Nvidia remains vulnerable to mounting U.S.-China trade tensions. We went to Nvidia’s Silicon Valley, California, headquarters to talk with Huang and get a behind-the scenes-look at the chips powering gaming and the AI boom.

Chapters:
02:04 — Chapter 1: Popularizing the GPU
07:02 — Chapter 2: From graphics to AI and ChatGPT
11:52 — Chapter 3: Geopolitics and other concerns
14:31 — Chapter 4: Amazon, autonomous cars and beyond

Produced and shot by: Katie Tarasov
Edited by: Evan Lee Miller
Additional Camera: Andrew Evers
Supervising Producer: Jeniece Pettitt
Graphics by: Jason Reginato

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How Nvidia Grew From Gaming To A.I. Giant, Now Powering ChatGPT

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[Punisher]

legend has it Jensen was born with that leather

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[zzzlap]

Yes. Hundreds of millions have an RTX 4090 at home.

Sold at RRP.

[blipblop]

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[jerbsherb]

Change the 4090 to 1080 and thats the GPU hundreds of millions of gamers play on.

Edit: My point is that the cards are too damn expensive for people and it's out of reach for those previous card holders.

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[Contentsubtitle]

0:00 Intro
2:07 Popularizing the GPU
7:03 From graphics to AI and ChatGPT
11:54 Geopolitics and other concerns
14:32 Amazon, autonomous cars and beyond

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[BarryLester]

just when you think the price of gpu would finally go back to normal, locally deployed AI is here to strike you again.

[LucasRodmo]

I work in data center infrastructure projects. NVIDIA is really out there. Most of the high scale business centered graphics processing is made with NVIDIA. I worked with projects of AI predictive security outbreak detection, genetic research, protein structure simulation, hospital machine learning diagnosis software, material stress simulation, weather big data... They really excel at those kind of processing needs.

[blinkbfsftw]

Just a thought : if someone were given the power a few decades ago to decide what industries humans should focus their efforts on, gaming hardware would probably come last. Interesting how now that hardware is revolutionizing out world

[pb]

What an insightful look into Nvidia’s history and vision. I think Jensen and the team are visionaries who are not only able to see the next revolution ahead of time, but able masterfully execute incrementally and position themselves for success.

When they started putting tensor cores into their graphics cards, gamers were very skeptical. But using deep learning to do super sampling became a major benefit and they were able to leverage all of that development to not only improve gaming, but get into and dominate the machine learning landscape.

[FroggyTWrite]

he even wears his leather coat to a cnbc interview 😅

[xevious]

Nvidia created the first graphics card but not the first graphics dedicated chips. That honor goes to commodore and the Amiga line of computers of which nvidia and others took a lot of inspiration from. The amiga line of computers were specifically known for their high levels of graphics and audio capabilities unlike all other computers on the market. The amigas proprietary design was around long before Nvidia was even founded. What was unique about the amiga was the fact that unlike other computer makes, which did both their graphics and their computations on the single CPU, the amiga utilized their own proprietary chipset, that separated the motorolla 68000 cpu from their Agnus graphics processing chip. They used dedicated chips for both graphics and audio all this on their 32bit motherboard architecture. So in actually commodore invented the GPU, but since it was a chip mounted to the motherboard and not a separate installable card as an upgrade, Nvidia later made the claim of being the first when in fact they were not in terms of the dedicated graphics processing unit. **update** and as a friend reminded me.. The very first Commodore amiga's 1000 / 2000 had their graphics chips connected to the motherboard via a "daughter" card plugged into its Zorro slots. So even in regards to the "card" idea Nvidia was not first.

[IronFreee]

AI can help improve games' graphics, so it made sense for them to invest in that direction.
Now they have a new business opportunity, just like Amazon, which invested in data storage capacity for its own purposes and ended up creating AWS, a successful service completely unrelated to its original business.

[williecfan]

They went to AI Giant by saying AI 75+ times on their earnings call.