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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by aucisson_masque on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:25AM (#50480121)
Huang didn’t invent llm, he merely benefits from it because he was at the right place at the right time.

He didn’t do anything incredible.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by solyin on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:33AM (#50480197)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418749

3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATI, and Cirrus were also in the right place at the right time, but there's a reason we're here talking about Nvidia and not them. How much was Jensen vs things out of his control, few people will ever know.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by rob74 on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:52AM (#50482801)
Yeah, and that reason is that Nvidia managed to achieve vendor lock-in with CUDA - which is not generally regarded as a good thing, but it was certainly good for Nvidia.
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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by paulryanrogers on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:30AM (#50483216)
Survivorship bias is another explanation. NVDA wasn't worth nearly so much before AI took off.

Arguably ATI is still around, wedded to AMD.

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