TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning

Re:TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Mac... by einpoklum on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:27AM (#35451037)

I hate the enormous waste of human ability, ingenuity and effort in the creation of proprietary technologies like this. You've made a chip? Offer it for everyone to use. Same goes for Amazon and Apple. It's not as though it's a chip that's only usable for Google-specific work.

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Re:TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Mac... by omeysalvi on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:44AM (#35453173)

If people are not allowed to monetize their innovations, there is no incentive to innovate. While this needs to have its limits, sharing it to everyone immediately upon creation is not an answer.

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Re:TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Mac... by alfor on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:43AM (#35454024)

It’s because Google is a monopoly it doesn’t operate on normal economic incentives.

It’s goal is only to keep the monopoly: appear bening, keep tech advance in house, share it’s spying network with government so the government don’t regulate them, win-win.

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Re:TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Mac... by alphabetting on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:00AM (#35454354)

>keep tech advance in house

they put out way more R&D research than other big firms. GPT-4 would most likely not exist today without them.

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Re:TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Mac... by joiojoio on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:53AM (#35454226)

Good news! They're being offered on Google Cloud: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/system-architecture-tpu-vm...

So you don't have to be frustrated anymore.

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