The Company Behind the A.I. Boom
NVIDIA, led by its visionary founder Jensen Huang, has become the cornerstone of the AI revolution not through software, but through hardware—specifically, its dominance in parallel computing chips that power modern AI systems. The episode reveals how a once second-tier gaming chip compan
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