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Tesla (TSLA) has spent years setting the pace in robotaxis and autonomous driving, selling investors a bold, tightly controlled vision of the future. By owning the car, the software, and the data loop, Tesla positioned itself as the gatekeeper of self-driving progress, confident that scale and secrecy would preserve its edge as autonomy inches closer to reality.
Nvidia (NVDA) enters this story from a very different angle. Best known for building the world’s most powerful GPUs and serving as the backbone of modern artificial intelligence (AI), Nvidia, instead of building vehicles or running robotaxi fleets, is equipping everyone else with the intellectual machinery to compete.