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NVIDIA

The dominant provider of AI hardware.

Definition

The dominant provider of AI hardware. Its GPUs (H100, A100, Blackwell) power the vast majority of AI training and inference worldwide. The CUDA ecosystem creates massive switching costs. NVIDIA's market cap exceeded $3 trillion, making it one of the world's most valuable companies, entirely due to the AI boom.

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GPU

Graphics Processing Unit.

CUDA

NVIDIA's parallel computing platform that lets developers use GPUs for general-purpose computing.

Compute

The processing power needed to train and run AI models.

Activation Function

A mathematical function applied to a neuron's output that introduces non-linearity into the network.

Adam Optimizer

An optimization algorithm that combines the best parts of two other methods — AdaGrad and RMSProp.

AGI

Artificial General Intelligence.

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