• Eldritch@piefed.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    18 hours ago

    Yes, the software will get there long before many people’s hearts and minds. As you said already is in many cases. The inertia Nvidia got by being early is why they’re so dominant now. But I think Nvidia’s focus on crypto and now data center AI is set to hurt them long term. Only time will tell, and they’re technically swimming in it ATM. But I’m getting out now.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      17 hours ago

      CUDA is actually pretty cool, especially in the early days when there was nothing like it. And Intel/AMD attempts at alternatives have been as mixed as their corporate dysfunction.

      And Nvidia has long has a focus on other spaces, like VR, AR, dataset generation, robotics, “virtual worlds” and such. If every single LLM thing disappeared overnight in a puff of smoke, they’d be fine; a lot of their efforts would transition to other spaces.

      Not that I’m an apologist for them being total jerks, but I don’t want to act like CUDA isn’t useful, either.