Nvidia briefly reached a market capitalization of $4 trillion on Wednesday, making it the first company in the world to reach the milestone and solidifying its position as one of Wall Street's most-favored stocks.

Nvidia's earnings over the past 12 months were worth about 0.07% of global GDP, according to Deutsche Bank, while the company employed around 0.0004% of the global population. Now that Nvidia has passed the $4 trillion market-capitalization milestone,

Nvidia beat other legendary tech giants in Apple and Microsoft to the $4 trillion mark. Since the start of the year Nvidia’s stock is up 17%. Though that is a relatively calm year for the chipmaker, which has seen its stock rise 1,453% over the last five years.

The stunning rise of Nvidia Corp to become the first publicly traded company valued at $4 trillion underscores the massive importance to the stock market of the AI chipmaker and the technology sector.

Nvidia has beaten rivals Apple and Microsoft to become the first company to reach a market value of $4 trillion. The AI chip maker, which closed at $162.88 a share and just shy of the $4 trillion mark,

Nvidia made history Wednesday, reaching a milestone market capitalization. These three charts show its path to $4 trillion since the debut of ChatGPT.