I disagree, nvidia didn’t build ai. Gpgpu dates back to the early 2000s, and it happens that deep learning as a computational problem is very well suited to GP

I disagree, nvidia didn’t build ai. Gpgpu dates back to the early 2000s, and it happens that deep learning as a computational problem is very well suited to GPUs.People figured this out around 2012-2013, and just like with cuda a few years before, nvidia figured out there was a huge market for them, because the underlying compute problem was well suited to their hardware. Ai could have used different models which are not computationally friendly to gpus ( or may not even require a lot of computational power ) and nvidia wouldn’t have been so successful at ai, much like intel’s cpus are not well suited to current deep learning models. I remember discussing with friends in the hpc community what was going to happen to nvidia - we were wondering how they could grow their compute business. And bam, massive compute needs for ai, problem solved.