Huang didn’t invent llm, he merely benefits from it because he was at the right place at the right time.

He didn’t do anything incredible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418749

3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATI, and Cirrus were also in the right place at the right time, but there's a reason we're here talking about Nvidia and not them. How much was Jensen vs things out of his control though, few people will ever know.

	▲	rob74 20 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, and that reason is that Nvidia managed to achieve vendor lock-in with CUDA - which is not generally regarded as a good thing, but it was certainly good for Nvidia.
	▲	paulryanrogers 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Survivorship bias is another explanation. NVDA wasn't worth nearly so much before AI took off. Arguably ATI is still around, wedded to AMD.