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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by teravor on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:58PM (#50462916) 

    > In 2012, Krizhevsky, Sutskever, and Hinton used Nvidia GPUs and CUDA to train AlexNet, whose breakthrough performance helped ignite the modern deep learning boom.
didn't the very early deep learning frameworks use opengl and shader constructs? I recall reading something to that effect.
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Re:Nvidia prepares to fire CEO Jensen Huang, WSJ reports by mrktf on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:49AM (#50465095)
If my memory right, it was around time when opengl allowed programmable shaders to render to texture. It was limited to floating point numbers and very short programs.
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