NVIDIA's early bet on CUDA for AI research explains why it clobbered AMD
moultano · x · 2026-09-26
In a thread about AGI versus practical applications, a commenter argues NVIDIA heavily backed CUDA for AI research in the 2010s, when gaming was still the dominant GPU market — a key reason it later clobbered AMD. The original poster adds this wasn't about any grand AGI vision, but about near-term practical uses in narrow domains.
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