The deep-learning revolution ran on two gaming graphics cards.

2012

AlexNet did not fit in the memory of a single Nvidia GTX 580, so it was split across two, and in 2012 it won the ImageNet contest by a wide margin.

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• AlexNet sparks the deep-learning revolution2012 · Toronto. In 2012 a neural network by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, trained on graphics cards, won a major image-recognition contest by a huge margin. Its success launched the deep-learning boom behind modern AI.

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