Providing a really well supported platform (CUDA) which only had payoff far in the future did take some foresight. That it could be applied to ML was a good gue

Providing a really well supported platform (CUDA) which only had payoff far in the future did take some foresight. That it could be applied to ML was a good guess, but the fact that the DL revolution happened mostly on NV hardware wasn’t just because the hardware was good. The CUDA environment investment paid off.