Nvidia became the first company to exceed a US$4 trillion market capitalization in 2025.
Nvidia’s rise was driven by investor demand for its graphics-processing units and related systems used in artificial-intelligence computing. Its shares crossed the level associated with a US$4 trillion valuation during July 2025, placing the chip designer above other mega-cap companies at that point in market history.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. It first became widely known for graphics processors used in computer games, but its parallel-computing technology later became important for data centers and machine-learning workloads. The company’s CUDA software platform helped developers use Nvidia hardware for general-purpose computation.
Market-cap rankings can change quickly because share prices move every trading day. A record valuation therefore describes a market measurement at a particular time, not a permanent ranking or a guarantee that one company will remain largest.