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That came out of millions of dollars and man hours of investment by Google and OpenAi.

Some college students selling software they didn't have and getting it ready from 0 to sellable in 2 months which led to a behemoth that still innovates to this day.

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jonas21 a day ago | parent [-]

It doesn't sound that different from Alex Krizhevsky training AlexNet on a pair of gaming GPUs in his bedroom, winning ImageNet, and launching the current wave of deep learning / AI.

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safety1st 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The big difference is that Bill's dad was one of the best corporate lawyers in America. Microsoft might not have amounted to much if they hadn't struck some extraordinarily prescient licensing deals at the right time and place.

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	▲	anovikov 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No difference really, just google who Bill Gates' mom was and how he got the IBM DOS deal... It wasn't BASIC that made MS big, it was DOS.

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Izikiel43 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Great point, I was thinking more on the Transformer architecture, but I stand corrected.

Google started similarly with PageRank as far as I remember.

	▲	musicale 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Grad students, but yeah. CUDA was also basically invented by a grad student. Many undergrad examples as well in the web era, from Excite to Facebook to Snapchat. (Note the unanticipated consequences aren't always good.)