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With its market cap crossing all the listed Indian stock exchange market values, Nvidia has become the name of a company that has reached a milestone. Valuation of Nvidia as of mid-May 2026 reached $5.1 trillion, while the combined valuation of BSE + NSE in India hovered around $4.9-5.0 trillion.

The venture is an astonishing achievement and indicates just how rapidly the artificial intelligence world is developing. Nvidia's market value has risen from approximately US$370 billion five years ago to more than US$5 trillion presently, thanks to the high demand for Nvidia's sophisticated graphics processors in AI data centers.

India boasts more than 5,000 listed companies in all major sectors, such as banking, IT, energy, and manufacturing, whose market cap has been dented by the outflows of foreign investors' portfolios and global uncertainties. In September 2024, India's total market cap reached almost $6 trillion, but it has since corrected to the point of closing the gap but not closing it entirely on NVIDIA's.

This, according to experts, is a sign of the power of one innovative firm with next-generation technologies to outgun a fledgling economy's stock exchange. It highlights India's goals of investing more in its tech and innovation scene, but it also shows how well no one else is doing it in the rest of the world