TECH - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Recalls Billions Of Dollars Of Investments In Deep Learning And The Philosophy Behind It: 'If We Don't Build It They Can't Come' | Benzinga
In a recent speech at CalTech, Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), shed light on the company’s significant investments in deep learning.
What Happened: Huang recalled the significant event in 2012 when Jeff Hinton, Alex Krzyzewski, and Ilya Sutskever utilized NVIDIA’s CUDA GPUs to train AlexNet, winning the ImageNet Challenge. This marked the onset of the AI revolution, leading to significant changes for NVIDIA and the wider tech industry.
Despite the potential cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, NVIDIA chose to explore deep learning’s boundaries.
Huang recalled, “How could we explore the limits of deep learning without having to build these massive GPU clusters? At the time we were a rather small company, building these massive GPU clusters ...