From two GTX 580s to AGI: how AlexNet's 6-day training in 2012 sparked the modern AI boom
khademinori · x · 2026-11-15
The author notes there'd be no AGI without NVIDIA and Jensen Huang, tracing the pivotal moment: in 2012, researchers trained AlexNet on two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 cards over 6 days, and this CUDA-powered setup won ImageNet, igniting the modern AI boom.
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