NVIDIA becomes first public company valued at $5 trillion

Nvidia, the biggest beneficiary of the ongoing artificial intelligence boom, has become the first public company to surpass the $5 trillion market cap.

The company’s shares rose more than 5.6% on Wednesday to $212.19, on the back of news on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump said that… expected to be discussed The company’s Blackwell chips with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday.

Investors are also likely to be influenced by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s comments on Tuesday that the company expects $500 billion in AI chip sales and is working to build… Seven new supercomputers for the United States In areas such as security, energy and science that will require thousands of Nvidia GPUs. The company also said on Tuesday that it had invested Billion dollars in Nokia It will use some of its products to “enable telecom service providers to launch native AI-driven 5G-Advanced and 6G networks on NVIDIA platforms.”

This milestone comes just three months after Nvidia’s arrival The first company to exceed the $4 trillion barrier. Its shares have risen more than 50% so far this year, fueled by seemingly insatiable demand for graphics processing units (GPUs), which are widely used in data centers to train large language models, inference and more. Nvidia GPUs are valuable because they’re rare — and by trading them directly into an ever-inflating data center chart, Nvidia is making sure they stay that way.

in general, Technology stocks have soared this year Expresses optimism that AI technology will revolutionize industries around the world, similar to the way the advent of the Internet changed business. Over the past year, investors have been encouraged by a A series of multi-billion dollar deals — many of which Nvidia has been at the center of — to spur the development of data centers and infrastructure to build computing power for resource-intensive AI models. In September, Nvidia announced it would do so Investing up to $100 billion in OpenAIanother beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom in the coming years. The two companies said at the time that they intended to deploy 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems to power OpenAI systems.

With a market cap of $5 trillion, Nvidia is now worth more than $5 trillion Aggregated stock markets in all countriesExcept for the United States, China and Japan.