The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and its mass adoption in the tech world has caused a paradigm shift that many companies are feeling — NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been one of the greatest beneficiaries of these developments. Researchers quickly learned that the same functionality that graphics processing units (GPUs) offer for rendering images in gaming also makes them ideal for AI applications. The ability to process vast stores of data at lightning speeds made GPUs critical to early AI research.