> It was just what happened to be available and most straightforward at the time
AMD made better hardware for a while and people wanted OpenCL to succeed. The reason why nvidia became dominant was because their competitors simply weren’t good enough for general purpose parallel compute.
Would AI still have happened without CUDA? Almost certainly. However nvidia still had a massive role in shaping what it looks like today.
> It was just what happened to be available and most straightforward at the time
AMD made better hardware for a while and people wanted OpenCL to succeed. The reason why nvidia became dominant was because their competitors simply weren’t good enough for general purpose parallel compute.
Would AI still have happened without CUDA? Almost certainly. However nvidia still had a massive role in shaping what it looks like today.