<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false">Nvidia briefly crossed a $4 trillion valuation, becoming the first company to hit this milestone.CEO Jensen Huang transformed Nvidia from a gaming hardware maker into a premier AI tech company over the last 33 years.Nvidia dominates the AI chip market with GPUs necessary for training large language models.The company was founded in 1993 by Huang and his co-founders in a Denny's restaurant; it nearly went bankrupt in 1996 before a recovery.