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> success from Nvidia was because of, if you read 90% of HN comments for the past 2 years; Luck.

Never once read a comment attributing Nvidia success to luck.

The only luck Nvidia has is the luck that AMD fell asleep at the wheel and couldn't get bothered to put more than 2 engineers on a CUDA competitor even when it was getting apparent that AI was worth billions (i.e. ~4-5 years ago).

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An example is the top level comment immediately below this thread (on my screen at least): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38721311

“No, Nvidia just found themselves in a lucky situation.”

which means they had reasons for doing what they did and found themselves well positioned for ML/AI but that those reasons were not specifically ML/AI.

You have to keep in mind that for a long time concurrency was thought of as the only way to keep getting increasing performance out of CPU's, what they invested in is massive concurrency and when ML/AI hit they were well-positioned for it due to their investments in massive concurrency.

> Never once read a comment attributing Nvidia success to luck.

The vast majority of the comments on this article prior to the one you were replying to were attributing it solely/largely to luck.

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