TOP 10 – AI LEADERS

COMPANY: NVIDIA REVENUE: US $ 130.5BN EMPLOYEES: 36,000 CEO: JENSEN HUANG FOUNDED: 1993

Jensen transformed Nvidia from a graphics company into the AI industry’ s infrastructure provider – through the strategic development of CUDA parallel computing platforms – a decision that would prove prescient when deep l earning emerged decades later.

His early bet on enabling GPUs for general-purpose computing seemed like a risky diversification from gaming hardware, but it positioned Nvidia perfectly for the AI boom. Today, his company’ s GPUs have become the new oil powering AI development, with virtually every major AI breakthrough depending on Nvidia’ s hardware architecture.

This positioning has made Nvidia one of the world’ s most valuable companies, with its market capitalisation rivaling entire

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countries’ GDPs. Jensen’ s influence extends beyond hardware sales with his technical decisions about GPU architecture, memory systems and software platforms determine what AI applications become feasible for the entire industry.

The symbiotic relationship between AI software ambitions and Nvidia’ s hardware capabilities creates a feedback loop where new AI possibilities drive demand for more powerful chips, which in turn enable even more ambitious AI projects.

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