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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.

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.