Not really. They did push CUDA and GPGPU on their own hardware while AMD and Intel offered a barely functional OpenCL. Of course they had no idea about how big

Not really. They did push CUDA and GPGPU on their own hardware while AMD and Intel offered a barely functional OpenCL. Of course they had no idea about how big AI and crypto would become, but they were there offering their cards to whoever wanted to run calculations on them.