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Aren't Google's TPUs a bit like a research project with practical applications as a nice side effect?
by rwmj 1y ago
Aren't Google's TPUs a bit like a research project with practical applications as a nice side effect?
- hackernudes 1y agoWhy do you say that? They are on their seventh iteration of hardware and even from the beginning (according to the article) they were designed to serve Google AI needs. My take is "sell access to TPUs on Google cloud" is the nice side effect.
- surajrmal 1y agoOn what basis do you make that claim? It's incredibly misleading and wrong.
- silentsea90 1y agoAll of Google ML runs on TPUs tied to $ billions in revenue. You make it sound like TPUs are a Google X startup that's going to get killed tomorrow.
- lmm 1y agoWhat revenue is that? Hardly anyone's paying for Google's AI directly, and it doesn't seem to have dramatically changed their ad business.
- happyopossum 1y agoGP said ML, not Ai - Google’s entire search and ad businesses are run on ML, as are many of the moonshots of alphabet (deep mind, Waymo, etc).
- rossjudson 1y agoLike all 5 of your AI friends aren't paying for Google AI? ;)
- wkat4242 1y agoI think you're thinking of the coral ones. The only ones they've sold directly to the public.