Modern GPU AI is 5 years Late -- 2007 to 2012 -Nvidia Never new that CUDA for AI
- 2007 (The Tool Invented): NVIDIA invented the CUDA programming language. However, it was marketed for physicists, oil-and-gas researchers, and 3D rendering experts. The AI academic community completely ignored it because they were still focused on traditional CPU methods. [1, 2]
- 2012 (The Breakthrough Usage): Alex Krizhevsky was one of the first AI researchers to realize that NVIDIA's 2007 tool (CUDA) could be hijacked to run neural networks. His success with AlexNet was the spark that woke up the rest of the world. [1, 2]
Think of it like this: NVIDIA built the supercar in 2007, but it sat in a garage until an AI scientist figured out how to drive it on a racetrack in 2012. [1]
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