NVIDIA was pounding the table on language AI 3 years before ChatGPT, says The NVIDIA Way author
firstadopter · x · 2026-11-13
The author of The NVIDIA Way appeared on Stratechery with Ben Thompson for a 70-minute conversation on NVIDIA's business history and strategy.
He cited a 2019 Ian Buck podcast: three years before ChatGPT, NVIDIA was already pounding the table on natural language AI understanding, BERT, data center AI networking, and training at scale — 'AI is going to be pervasive,' evidence of NVIDIA's early conviction long before industry consensus.
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