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He has been working on tinygrad since atleast 2021.
https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/06/13/a-bre...
AI was already red hot in 2021, so not sure that detracts from OP's point.
I know it seems like ages ago at the current pace, but ya gotta remember that GPT-3 was released in mid-2020.