Ian Buck, Nvidia's VP, reflects on the company's evolution during CEO Jensen Huang's keynote at GTC 2023. Huang's nostalgic slide showcased CUDA's journey from two libraries to over 900, highlighting its integral role in Nvidia’s AI market share. Buck, a pioneer in this field, recalls starting in graphics when it held societal stigma, yet innovated to solidify Nvidia's current success. This trajectory from niche graphics to AI supremacy illustrates the remarkable transformation of both Nvidia and the industry at large.
"A long time ago - 20 years ago - this slide was all we had," the CEO continued. "It is a passionate and very personal slide for me."
"It is a passionate and very personal slide for me," Buck told reporters the next day.
"There was a stigma to working in computer graphics - you were maybe some kind of man-child if this was your focus," Witt said.
"Computer graphics was such a dweebie field," said Stephen Witt, the author of 'The Thinking Machine,' which details Nvidia's rise from obscurity to the most valuable company in the world.
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