How did Nvidia go from making hardware for gaming and Bitcoin to the most powerful AI chip maker in just a few years? Nvidia’s evolution from a graphics card company to the backbone of the AI revolution is one of the most remarkable business transformations in tech history.

One year after the Google DeepMind paper that made LLMs possible, in 2018, Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX series, which marked one of the major revolutionary moments for this company. These cards featured dedicated AI processing units (Tensor Cores) and real-time ray tracing capabilities, effectively merging gaming, AI, and advanced graphics rendering. Seven years later, Nvidia’s status in the world is almost unrecognizable