29/10/2025
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29/10/2025
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Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion company, surpassing $4 trillion just three months ago.
NEW YORK, Oct 29, (AP): Nvidia has become the first $5 trillion company, just three months after the Silicon Valley chipmaker was first to break through the $4 trillion barrier.
Hitting the new benchmark puts more emphasis on the upheaval being unleashed by an artificial intelligence craze that’s widely viewed as the biggest tectonic shift in technology since Apple co-founder Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone 18 years ago. Apple rode the iPhone’s success to become the first publicly traded company to be valued at $1 trillion, $2 trillion, and eventually, $3 trillion.
But there are concerns of a possible AI bubble, with officials at the Bank of England earlier this month flagging the growing risk that tech stock prices pumped up by the AI boom could burst. The head of the International Monetary Fund has raised a similar alarm.
The ravenous appetite for Nvidia’s chips is the main reason that the company’s stock price has increased so rapidly since early 2023. On Wednesday, the shares touched $207.86 in early morning trading with 24.3 billion shares outstanding, putting its market cap at $5.05 trillion.
In comparison, Nvidia's value is greater than the GDP of India, Japan, and the United Kingdom, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has downplayed concerns of a bubble bursting, saying that the generative AI chatbots that were merely "interesting” when they first took hold a few years ago are now becoming so useful that they will be profitable.
Huang was heading to South Korea this week as leaders from major Pacific Rim economies, including the United States, China, and Japan, are gathering for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that has long championed free trade but is now confronting sweeping U.S. tariffs on technology and other products.
The multilateral gathering in Gyeongju is expected to be overshadowed by a sideline event - a face-to-face meeting on Thursday between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping - as their intensifying trade war leaves the South Korean hosts in a difficult balancing act.
On Tuesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang disclosed $500 billion in chip orders. The company also announced a partnership with Uber on robotaxis and a $1 billion investment in Nokia, with the two planning to work together on 6G technology.
In addition, Nvidia is teaming with the Department of Energy to build seven new AI supercomputers.
Last month, Nvidia announced that it would invest $100 billion in OpenAI as part of a partnership that will add at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia AI data centers to ramp up the computing power for the owner of the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.
In August, Huang said that Nvidia was discussing a potential new computer chip designed for China with the Trump administration. President Donald Trump said on Air Force One that he will speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping about Nvidia's chips on Thursday on the sidelines of the APEC event that Huang is also attending.
