ai2323

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by ai2323 8y ago
Apologies, stand corrected. Conspiracy theories are always more fun:) Guess was just coincidence that after grabbing all this press on GCE v100 finally being available, tpu3 is announced few days later.
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by ai2323 8y ago
Completely agree with you there. Guess the analogy I was making was more about the evolutionary speed we saw there. Google seems to be moving awful fast here.
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by ai2323 8y ago
For all the google hate, nvidia is too blame as well. Their ceo running around saying 'we saving you money every time you spend 10k on a gpu' is getting old. The should have been far more aggressive price wise with this biz consid
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by ai2323 8y ago
Their spend on nvidia gpu's...how it's shifted as they have progressed tpu wise. I think you go back 18 months google was their biggest here.
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by ai2323 8y ago
You kind of summed it up right there...'it's just an arithmetic logic unit for tensors'...whether its a matrix multiply engine or implmenting sha256 still a custom rapidly iterated chip for narrow very specific use case. Goog
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by ai2323 8y ago
This very typical google. V100 comes out, they don't deploy it in their cloud immediately. Then they launch their tpu cloud. Spend 2 months touting cost/speed in benchmarks. Then a week before io they make v100 available in gce, n
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by ai2323 8y ago
Welcome to ASIC land....training going the route of crypto mining
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by ai2323 8y ago
This makes perfect sense. It's all about economics both w respect to intel and nvidia. You can't be paying 8-10k per gpu, and you are not going to pay that when you can make something far cheaper and faster. Google got this done i