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GPU Mode originally was a Discord dedicated to learning GPU-kernel programming, and it offered lectures.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“The original premise was just like, it was a GPU or as a discord dedicated to learning how to write GPU kernels and they had like lectures that was basically the extent of it.”Play from 1:02Report a misattribution
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