My vague read from before was that TPU4 has been out for a long long time & was basically near impossible to get time in unless you could bid super high. Not m

My vague read from before was that TPU4 has been out for a long long time & was basically near impossible to get time in unless you could bid super high. Not my field & this could be super wrong. But my skepticism that a TPU5e launch was going to help anyone but some niche well connected other big players has been very high. I'm interested from an academic sense, and I love work like the Keras 3.0 release that makes me much more universal/portable, such that hardware like this or others can burn f-ing metal. But I don't have much trust this will actually be available at a reasonable price/with any kind of availability. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38446353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38446353 https://keras.io/keras_3/ https://keras.io/keras_3/ I'd love to be wrong & have this be actually available at a good price to change what is possible for people, & still interesting. Your call out is right. There's no lightning rod here, nothing to be hyoer-critical of, and few step outside the comfort zone of CUDA have anywhere near enough idea how to assess. This is an unknown on the radar for most.