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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by modeless on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:12PM (#50461641)
Jensen made basically two visionary choices IMO. One was promoting GPGPU with CUDA. The second was to specifically invest heavily in supporting machine learning on CUDA way before anyone else in chips cared. CuDNN came out in 2014, just two years after AlexNet. Three years before the transformer. Eight years before ChatGPT. Other chip CEOs probably hadn't even heard of AlexNet in 2014.

Assuming these decisions are attributable to him personally, then he deserves the description "visionary" IMO. That said, he's made plenty of other choices I don't like, and invested in plenty of silly stuff that isn't panning out for them. I don't really think Nvidia needs a visionary right now. They have the best business in the world and they just need to execute.

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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by CivBase on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:47PM (#50461961)
That's two things over a long history. I wonder how many other initiatives he spear headed that never went anywhere.
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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by modeless on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:02PM (#50462100)
Plenty. But also I'm sure there were a lot of decisions he made earlier in the company's history that led to them being in the position to start the CUDA project. I'm less familiar with those. They only matter inasmuch as they allowed the company to survive until AI took off.
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