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They have announced publicly using TPUs for inference, as far back as 2016. They did not offer TPUs for Cloud customers until 2017. The development is clearly d
by jeffbee 3y ago
They have announced publicly using TPUs for inference, as far back as 2016. They did not offer TPUs for Cloud customers until 2017. The development is clearly driven by internal use cases. One of the features they publicly disclosed as TPU-based was Smart Reply and that launched in 2015. So their internal use of TPUs for inference goes back nearly a decade.