AlexNet's GPUGraphics processing unit — a chip optimized for parallel math; now used for graphics, ML, and scientific computing.-trained convolutional network crushed traditional computer visionSoftware that interprets images and video — object detection, OCR, and scene understanding. pipelines — convincing Google, FacebookThe social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg — grew into Meta and reshaped online advertising., and industry to bet on neural networkA model of connected layers that learns from examples — the core of modern deep learning.s. Hinton had pursued backprop for decades before this breakthrough.

AlexNet was the inflection point for modern deep learningNeural networks with many layers that learn hierarchical representations from data. adoption.

It proved neural networkA model of connected layers that learns from examples — the core of modern deep learning.s could beat hand-engineered vision features at scale.