Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
by StableAlkyne on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:04AM
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This predates modern AI
The first papers on using GPUs to accelerate scientific tasks came out at the turn of the century. Initially it was molecular dynamics, which led Nvidia to release their first scientific-focused line, the Tesla.
Then in 2010 or so, someone realized you could train a neural network very fast on these things.
The reason they are the leader here goes all the way back to the 2000s when they released CUDA. Because of that, the neural network (and therefore AI) ecosystem went with them.
The first papers on using GPUs to accelerate scientific tasks came out at the turn of the century. Initially it was molecular dynamics, which led Nvidia to release their first scientific-focused line, the Tesla.
Then in 2010 or so, someone realized you could train a neural network very fast on these things.
The reason they are the leader here goes all the way back to the 2000s when they released CUDA. Because of that, the neural network (and therefore AI) ecosystem went with them.