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GPUGPU
グラフィックス・プロセッシング・ユニット(ジーピーユー)
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A specialized processor originally designed for graphics that excels at the parallel computations needed for AI training and inference.
Why It Matters
GPUs are the backbone of AI computing — without them, training large models would take years instead of weeks.
Example in Practice
NVIDIA's H100 GPUs being used by every major AI lab to train their largest language models.