Not really. Nvidias gpu architecture was tensor.. It is useful for other things like AI. That wasn't a decision to create AI other than it was what they had. They landed on their feet. They didn't invest in pickaxes, they had the right pickaxe at the right time.

Revisionist nonsense. Turing introduced tensor cores which were largely useless on launch, but massively increased transistor count and die size. It was entirely a bet on future and emerging applications.