Nvidia: From washing dishes to powering AI, the journey of a chipmaker
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Jensen Huang and friends started Nvidia over a meal at Denny's, where Huang previously worked washing dishes as a teen.
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Nvidia launched the RIVA 128 graphics chip in 1998, putting the company on the map in computer hardware.
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By 2011, AI researchers globally adopted Nvidia GPUs to power their models.
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In 2012, Alex Krizhevsky's deep learning work on Nvidia GPUs caught the attention of tech giants.
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Nvidia GPUs now power modern AI systems like ChatGPT.