Nando de Freitas: using GPUs for deep learning since 2009 with Hinton, LeCun, Bengio
NandoDF · x · 2026-10-20
NVIDIA VP Nando de Freitas shared he's attending GTC in Berlin, recalling that he started using GPUs for deep learning in 2009 as a professor at CIFAR alongside Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio and others. "I didn't expect it to be so big 18 years later!" — a note of historical perspective on how far GPU-based deep learning has come.
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