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Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $5 Trillion Market Value on AI Momentum

Investors responded to Jensen Huang’s signal of roughly $500 billion in AI‑chip commitments.

Overview

  • Shares jumped about 4–4.5% in early U.S. trading, briefly topping roughly $207–$210 to push the valuation past $5 trillion.
  • Jensen Huang said Nvidia expects around $500 billion in orders for upcoming AI chips and disclosed plans to build seven AI supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy.
  • Nvidia’s systems power training at major customers including Google, Meta and OpenAI, underscoring its central role in the AI infrastructure build‑out.
  • U.S. rules bar the most powerful Nvidia systems from China, and President Trump said he could raise Blackwell chips with Xi Jinping during talks this week.
  • Sector demand is accelerating as peers ramp spending, with Meta guiding up to $72 billion in 2025 capital expenditures and Microsoft planning to lift AI capacity by more than 80% and roughly double data‑center space.