Founder's Vision Vaults Nvidia to $1 Trillion

Even more unusual is that Huang, 60, is only the second U.S. CEO after Amazon.com Inc.'s Jeff Bezos, who helmed the retailer until 2021, to hit such a milestone for a company they co-founded. Nvidia shares have been on a tear, rising on stellar sales projections from a boom in artificial-intelligence workloads and components. Since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022, Nvidia's value has ballooned from roughly $420 billion to its current level. The company's pole position in AI is a decade-and-a-half in the making. Huang was...