Nvidia’s biggest competitive advantage is no longer as untouchable as it once seemed.
For two decades, Nvidia’s crown jewel wasn’t just chips; it was the software that turned them into the building blocks of AI, known as CUDA.
Short for Compute Unified Device Architecture, CUDA is the brainchild of longtime Nvidia executive Ian Buck, who heads high-performance computing. It took years to build, with ready-made code for common AI tasks, tools to find bugs, and software that lets thousands of chips work together to train models.
Now, some believe AI could eventually automate one of the industry’s hardest jobs: building the software that powers AI…
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