Nvidia on Wednesday briefly hit $4 trillion in market value, making it the first publicly traded company to hit that milestone. Nvidia stock rose 2.76% after the market opened on Wednesday to hit an intraday record high that pushed its market value above the $4 trillion mark.

Nvidia Corp. became the first U.S. company to ever reach a $4 trillion intraday market capitalization on Wednesday, but its shares pulled back slightly from the required threshold and finished the trading day just below the mark.

Nvidia reached another milestone in its rise to becoming one of the world's most important companies: the first publicly traded company to reach a market value of $4 trillion.