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Re:Why Nvidia Keeps Winning: The Rise of an AI Giant by est on Thursday July 06, 2023 @10:32PM (#36626323)
> Competition means giving customers exciting, fast, low cost GPUs.

You actually need to do more. The ML community chose nVidia because a decade ago, nVidia donated GPUs to universities for free. People like Hinton hacked CUDA as a poor man's HPC.

For example the original AlexNet use 224x224 resolution pictures, to fit the GTX 580 3GB memory.

Re:Why Nvidia Keeps Winning: The Rise of an AI Giant by woodson on Thursday July 06, 2023 @10:49PM (#36626460)
It wasn’t the donations. I bought a GTX 580 back then to train DNNs for speech recognition. There simply were no other reasonable options around.
Re:Why Nvidia Keeps Winning: The Rise of an AI Giant by pjmlp on Friday July 07, 2023 @02:47AM (#36628109)
And tooling that also allowed them to run their existing Fortran, C++ and whatever else they thought out, instead of plain C.