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Alex Zhang thinks GPU Mode's earlier name, CUDA Mode, was changed for legal reasons or something similar.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“yeah so i was interested in in whether or not you could write specialized kernels for it at snapchat um it didn't nothing really came of it but i joined gpu mode at the time it was called cuda mode uh i think for like legal reasons or something they changed the name”Play from 1:36Report a misattribution
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