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> 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.



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.


And tooling that also allowed them to run their existing Fortran, C++ and whatever else they thought out, instead of plain C.




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