"Jensen just got lucky" debate: CUDA was pushed for 5 years before AI
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-13
User cbo305 argued Jensen Huang gets too much credit: researchers like Krizhevsky, Sutskever, Hinton and Ng "just happened" to find CUDA GPUs good for neural nets, and Nvidia lucked out. teortaxesTex retorted that CUDA had already been pushed for 5 years by then, mocking the framing that everything was accidental. The debate contrasts with Naval's claim that Jensen is Nvidia's irreplaceable Steve Jobs.
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