{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-30-nvidia-1-trillion/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-30-nvidia-1-trillion/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2023-05-30-nvidia-1-trillion","date":"2023-05-30","date_precision":"day","short_title":"NVIDIA becomes the first chipmaker worth $1 trillion","deck":null,"takeaway":"Driven by demand for AI accelerators after ChatGPT, NVIDIA's market capitalization briefly topped $1 trillion on 30 May 2023, the first chip company to do so; it later passed $3T (June 2024), $4T (July 2025) and $5T (October 2025).","category":"business","category_label":"Business","importance":3,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"partly","labels":["Partly confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Nvidia becomes first public company worth $5 trillion (TechCrunch)","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/nvidia-becomes-first-public-company-worth-5-trillion/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"techcrunch.com"},{"n":2,"title":"Wikipedia: Nvidia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia","type":"discussion","group":"reactions","domain":"en.wikipedia.org"}],"official":0,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["NVIDIA"],"title":"NVIDIA becomes the first chipmaker worth $1 trillion","summary":"Driven by demand for AI accelerators after ChatGPT, NVIDIA's market capitalization briefly topped $1 trillion on 30 May 2023, the first chip company to do so; it later passed $3T (June 2024), $4T (July 2025) and $5T (October 2025).","key_facts":["Crossed $1T intraday on 30 May 2023","Followed a record revenue forecast in late May 2023 driven by datacenter GPUs","Became the first company to reach a $4T market value in July 2025","Became the first to reach $5T on 29 October 2025 (closing value ~$5.03T)"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["nvidia","market-cap","gpu"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nNVIDIA's stock soared as every major lab and cloud provider raced to buy H100 GPUs.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nNVIDIA's valuation became the market's barometer for the AI boom and of the scale of capital flowing into compute.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2024-03-18-nvidia-blackwell","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-03-18-nvidia-blackwell/","date":"2024-03-18","date_precision":"day","short_title":"NVIDIA unveils the Blackwell GPU platform","deck":null,"takeaway":"Blackwell racks became the building block of 2025's gigawatt-scale AI datacenters.","category":"hardware-compute","category_label":"Chips & compute","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["NVIDIA"]},{"id":"2022-03-22-nvidia-h100-hopper","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-03-22-nvidia-h100-hopper/","date":"2022-03-22","date_precision":"day","short_title":"NVIDIA announces the H100 'Hopper' GPU","deck":null,"takeaway":"H100 supply became the key bottleneck and currency of the AI race; GPU counts became a proxy for lab ambition.","category":"hardware-compute","category_label":"Chips & compute","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["NVIDIA"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":null}