Infrastructure & Compute
6 milestones in AI history
Deep Learning Dawn (2006–2011)
ImageNet: The Dataset That Changed Everything
Fei-Fei Li and her team created ImageNet, a dataset of over 14 million hand-labeled images in 20,000+ categories. Starting in 2010, the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) became the benchmark for computer vision progress.
Fei-Fei LiStanford UniversityPrinceton University
GPU Computing for Neural Networks
Researchers including Andrew Ng demonstrated that GPUs (graphics processing units) could train neural networks 10-70x faster than CPUs. NVIDIA's CUDA platform made GPU programming accessible. This hardware breakthrough removed the computational bottleneck that had held back deep learning.
Andrew NgStanford UniversityNVIDIA
