> UltraEthernet predates the AI boom.
UEC was formed/announced in July 2023:
* https://ultraethernet.org/leading-cloud-service-semiconducto...
ChatGPT was launched in November 2022:
The writing was on the wall by 2015-2017, earlier still if you're the smart/attentive type.
Yeah I may have underestimated how recent the formation of UEC was but IMO the efforts started around the period you are indicating with a lot of the libfabric guys proposing stuff like this.