In a landmark achievement for the global technology sector, Nvidia Corporation has become the first publicly traded company to close with a market capitalization exceeding $4 trillion. The company’s stock closed at $164.10 per share on July 10, 2025, underscoring its critical role in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution that has fueled significant stock market gains this year.
The milestone reinforces Nvidia’s dominance in the semiconductor industry, especially in the development of graphics processing units (GPUs) that serve as the backbone of AI systems. Investor enthusiasm remains high as the company continues to benefit from widespread demand for AI capabilities across sectors ranging from cloud computing to autonomous vehicles and medical research.
Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, Nvidia began as a designer of high-performance graphics cards for gaming. However, its strategic focus on research and development over the past decade has transformed the firm into a global leader in AI hardware. Nvidia’s chips are now central to the infrastructure powering generative AI platforms such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.
The company’s explosive growth has been one of the defining stories of the post-pandemic tech boom. Since late 2022, when ChatGPT’s release ignited widespread public and corporate interest in generative AI, Nvidia’s share price has skyrocketed by over 870 percent. Despite increasing competition—including from emerging players like China’s DeepSeek—Nvidia has continued to outpace its peers. It reached the $1 trillion valuation mark in 2023 and has since overtaken longtime tech heavyweights like Apple and Microsoft.
Financial analysts attribute Nvidia’s trajectory to both its technical leadership and its ecosystem of partnerships across the technology landscape. “Nvidia has become the foundational layer of the AI revolution,” said analysts from Wedbush Securities, who added that Microsoft could be the next company to reach a $4 trillion valuation later this year.
The broader stock market has also reflected investor confidence in the tech sector’s prospects. Both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite reached record highs this week, buoyed by strong corporate earnings and anticipation of continued innovation in AI, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software.
Nvidia’s market cap milestone is not just a corporate achievement—it signals a profound shift in the global economy. The rise of AI and advanced computing technologies is reshaping industries, labor markets, and national strategies for digital competitiveness. Governments and corporations worldwide are investing heavily in AI infrastructure, with Nvidia at the center of this transformation.
As AI continues to drive both innovation and disruption, Nvidia’s historic valuation highlights the increasing importance of high-performance computing in shaping the future of technology, business, and society.
