In Reply to: More victims of DOGE posted by mh on August 03, 2026 at 10:36:17
Nvidia's biggest competitive advantage is no longer as untouchable as it once seemed.
For two decades, Nvidia's crown jewel wasn't just chips; it was the software that turned them into the building blocks of AI, known as CUDA.
Short for Compute Unified Device Architecture, CUDA is the brainchild of longtime Nvidia executive Ian Buck, who heads high-performance computing. It took years to build, with ready-made code for common AI tasks, tools to find bugs, and software that lets thousands of chips work together to train models.
Now, some believe AI could eventually automate one of the industry's hardest jobs: building the software that powers AI itself.
The industry is at an important threshold, says Jeremy Nixon, a former Google Brain researcher and the founder of AI software startup Infinity. He told Business Insider his startup used AI coding agents to recreate CUDA-like software for the chip startup D-Matrix in 10 hours — evidence, he said, that one of Nvidia's biggest moats is being crossed.