Nvidia is now worth more than Amazon and Alphabet
by Amrita Khalid from The Verge - All Posts on (#6JMWV)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia surpassed Alphabet in market capitalization on Wednesday, only a day after it overtook Amazon. Bloomberg is reporting that the chip maker's stock is now worth $1.83 trillion, beating the Google owner's $1.82 market cap by a hair. This makes Nvidia the world's fourth most valuable company in the wake of the AI boom, after Microsoft ($3.04T), Apple ($2.84T) and Saudi Aramco. The company is currently making the H100 chip, which powers the majority of LLMs in use today, including OpenAI's ChatGPT and the majority of AI projects from Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon.
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