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GPU makers really lucked out in the last few years. First from the crypto craze and now the AI craze.
by sschueller 3y ago
GPU makers really lucked out in the last few years. First from the crypto craze and now the AI craze.
- twoodfin 3y agoI dunno if it’s “luck”. Nvidia in particular made a big bet more than a decade ago on GPU’s having strong aptitude for important general computation problems. Turns out they were right.
- scottiebarnes 3y agoAgreed, if you were playing with computer vision and deep learning ~7 years ago, you knew the potential. Nvidia maintained their stranglehold on the software and hardware platforms. OpenAI (and all the great open source research published by others) really blew it open for Nvidia.
- welshwelsh 3y agoThe second seems inevitable from the first. Crypto was when people discovered the massive computational power of GPUs, and AI is when people figured out how to direct this power to do useful work.
- asdff 3y agoThey've been lucking out since the n64 was released.
- yen223 3y agoNot to mention the whole "video game" thing that people really like