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Jensen embraced AI way before that. CuDNN was released back in 2014. I remember being at ICLR in 2015, and there were three companies with booths: Google and
by cameldrv 2y ago
Jensen embraced AI way before that. CuDNN was released back in 2014. I remember being at ICLR in 2015, and there were three companies with booths: Google and Facebook who were recruiting, and NVIDIA was selling a 4 GPU desktop computer.
- dartos 2y agoWell as soon as matmul has a marketable use (ML predictive algorithms) nvidia was on top of it. I don’t think they were thinking of LLMs in 2014, tbf.
- throwaway314155 2y agoEffectively no one was but LLM's are precisely "ML predictive algorithms". That neural networks more broadly would scale at all on gaming chips is plenty foresight to be impressed with.
- ghc 2y agoI invested in an LLM company in 2014 and nvidia was very aggressive in giving GPUs for use in training models. Their program wasn't targeted specifically at LLMs, but they were definitely aware of the uses. In case anyone is confused, here's an explanatory tweet about one of the founders of that company: https://x.com/jxmnop/status/1725949517940294055 https://x.com/jxmnop/status/1725949517940294055 . LLMs have been in the works for awhile. But you need lots of money to make them good! Even back in 2014 they were mining reddit for training data.
- esjeon 2y agoNo. At the time, it was about GPGPU, not AI.