Nvidia is playing many positions on the AI pitch, a leading business professor says.
“If AI is a modern-day gold rush, then Nvidia is not only selling the picks; they’re also shareholders in the mines themselves, and now they’re becoming the bank that’s lending to all the prospectors,” Rob Lalka told Business Insider in an email.
Lalka, a business professor at Tulane University and the author of “The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits into Power,” described Nvidia’s meteoric rise over the past two decades, from making graphics cards for video games to becoming the world’s most valuable company and the linchpin of the AI boom.
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