Nvidia

The chip company that started out building graphics cards for gamers and ended up owning the only road wide enough for modern AI. Jensen Huang, CUDA, and the bet that took nine years to pay off.

Part 7: The day Prometheus gave us ChatGPT

Part 7: The day Prometheus gave us ChatGPT

Part 7 of an ongoing series on Modern AI History. The Fire in the Mountain What we've really been trying to emphasise in the story so far is that AI didn't drop out of the sky. It feels that way now — there was a Tuesday in

Part 2: The Godfather's 40 Year Bet

Part 2: The Godfather's 40 Year Bet

Part 2 of an ongoing series on Modern AI History. Let's skip along nineteen years, to 2012. Nvidia is no longer a long shot. They survived two near-death experiences in the 1990s, won the gaming wars of the 2000s, and now sit comfortably as the graphics chip of

Part 1: The Name on the Plaque at a Denny's Booth

Part 1: The Name on the Plaque at a Denny's Booth

A week or so back, as I fired up the treadmill, I was faced with the hollow feeling of having finished one of the all-time great treadmill shows, Lincoln Lawyer, and having to make a new commitment. Shoulders slumped, I ran the old "similar shows" search and my