Nvidia spent years begging researchers to use GPUs for AI before anyone did, CUDA thread notes
BarneyFlames · x · 2026-09-25
A thread punctures the retrocausal belief that CUDA was developed for AI simply because it's now used for it. BarneyFlames adds that for almost half a decade Nvidia was explicitly begging researchers to use GPUs for AI before people actually started. The original author clarifies he meant AI as 'the present and near-term thing likely to disrupt the economy,' not the generic buzzword for narrow machine learning.
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