SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. - It's a massive milestone: Nvidia just became the first publicly traded company to exceed $5 trillion dollars in market value.

"It's a shockingly large number. But it's not surprising when you consider how much they were worth before and how successful they've become. I mean, this is a company that owns the AI hardware space," Larry Magid, a tech expert with ConnectSafely said.

Far and away

Why you should care:

The company has no close competitors. By some accounts, Nvidia's AI chips make up 90 percent of the market, which means anyone betting on the future of AI is coming to them first.

"If any country or any organization or any government would like to be in AI, they must come to Nvidia. They have to knock on the door of Nvidia and that's actually given

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