AI Glossary

GPU

Also called graphics processing unit

A chip first built to draw graphics, whose ability to do many calculations at once made it widely used for training and running AI models. In 2012 researchers trained the AlexNet image classifier on two GPUs, an early example of deep learning on graphics chips.

See also

  • Compute

    The processing power used to train and run AI models, often counted in hours on chips such as GPUs.

  • Inference

    Running a trained model to produce an output, as opposed to training it.

Source: Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton, ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (2012) (opens in a new tab)

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Orbyt Labs, GPU (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/gpu

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Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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