Three years. That's all it took for the AI gold rush to rewrite the rules.

When ChatGPT dropped in late 2022, OpenAI was valued at a modest $14 billion. Fast forward to today? We're staring at a $500 billion valuation. That's a 35x jump. But here's the kicker—NVIDIA rode the same wave even harder. Their market cap exploded from $422 billion to $4.3 trillion. Yeah, trillion with a T.

The math is simple: AI infrastructure eats the world, and whoever builds the picks and shovels wins. While everyone debates which chatbot sounds smarter, the real money flows to the hardware powering the compute arms race.

This isn't just a tech story. It's a reminder that in every boom cycle, the infrastructure layer captures disproportionate value. Sound familiar? Think exchanges in crypto, cloud providers in SaaS. Same playbook, different era.