Lot of things were happening before you started paying attention to it. GPGPU definitely wasn't just there being useless before crypto and AI didn't just "Come

Lot of things were happening before you started paying attention to it. GPGPU definitely wasn't just there being useless before crypto and AI didn't just "Come along" after crypto. CUDA has been heavily utilized for AI for many many years now, whole reason Nvidia is so entrenched in it is because they were they only ones taking GPGPU seriously like OpenCL (1) rose and was abandoned before we even get to your interpretation of the timeline. (1): Easy to forget now that AMD and Apple had an common standard competitor to CUDA and completely fumbled it.