Famed for its graphics cards, formerly the realm of gamers and various sorts of graphics professional, the AI boom ensured that NVidia caught and briefly surpassed Amazon as the world's fifth-largest company by market capitalization yesterday. Both companies are worth a little under 1.8 trillion U.S. dollars.
On one hand, NVidia makes tools for businesses and the strength should move to those customer-facing companies once the dust settles and it's clear what "AI boom" applications are succeeding. On the other hand, Amazon and Google are deep in stage 3 enshittification and if AI helps them accomplish that then we're sailing the consumerism shit supernova anyway.
