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Re:Google is acquiring Kaggle by estsauver on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @01:05AM (#13818303)
I think their play has been building specialized hardware that executes TensorFlow better than anyone else. "You could use a GPU to do this, but check out our custom ASIC that does it 400x faster for 1/5th the cost..."
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Re:Google is acquiring Kaggle by deepnotderp on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @01:27AM (#13818387)
NO ONE does it 400X faster...

And the hardware advantage is easily negated. For example, our startup is building something like this.

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Re:Google is acquiring Kaggle by kornish on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @02:31AM (#13818625)
The 400x was clearly hyperbolic – and sure. But you probably don't have one-click integration with an existing battle-tested IaaS platform.

Vertical integration is powerful, and by open-sourcing Tensorflow Google is achieving useful synergies in sales and recruiting. At their vast scale, even small ROIs (as a percentage) can be massive.

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Re:Google is acquiring Kaggle by deepnotderp on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @02:57AM (#13818725)
No, but our customers, ie AWS will...
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