Ex-DeepMind researcher: professors and students built AI's foundations before the boom
NandoDF · x · 2026-10-08
Nando de Freitas points out there was a time when Nvidia and Google weren't into AI, big cloud providers had no GPUs, and AI itself didn't exist — yet during that era professors and students created the foundations of today's AI.
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