> At Tesla's scale and priorities, they'd probably be less keen on using external cloud providers. Not sure if it’s still the case today, but previously Tesla’

> At Tesla's scale and priorities, they'd probably be less keen on using external cloud providers. Not sure if it’s still the case today, but previously Tesla’s training was done on-prem and with their own in-house Tensorflow clone. And yes, if you get TPUs from GCloud, you are likely to be working with their engineers to get things working. Those engineers tend not to have much business conflict of interest, though. They want to help you because your problems are likely more interesting than what they’d otherwise be assigned.