From Denny's dishwasher to AI chip leader: the rise and fall of Jensen Huang

The Guardian profiles Jensen Huang, the former Nvidia chief executive who co-founded the chipmaker in 1993 and led it to a $5tn valuation in October last year, before resigning on Thursday amid allegations of affairs with a Chinese spy and an Nvidia executive. The piece traces his path from washing dishes at Denny's and studying electrical engineering at Oregon State and Stanford to Nvidia's GeForce 256, the 2012 AlexNet work and the AI boom that made its GPUs central to systems such as ChatGPT. Nvidia's valuation has since fallen to about $4tn, and Huang's 3.6% stake is valued at $145bn, according to Bloomberg.