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CUDA

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

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NVIDIA's parallel computing platform that lets developers use GPUs for general-purpose computing. Almost all deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) rely on CUDA under the hood. This dependency creates a massive moat for NVIDIA — switching to AMD or other GPUs means rewriting low-level code.

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