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Re:TPU Deep Dive by rwmj on Sunday June 22, 2025 @08:26AM (#44346343)
Aren't Google's TPUs a bit like a research project with practical applications as a nice side effect?
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Re:TPU Deep Dive by silentsea90 on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:14PM (#44348082)
All 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.
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Re:TPU Deep Dive by lmm on Sunday June 22, 2025 @08:33PM (#44351439)
What revenue is that? Hardly anyone's paying for Google's AI directly, and it doesn't seem to have dramatically changed their ad business.
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Re:TPU Deep Dive by rossjudson on Sunday June 22, 2025 @11:22PM (#44352199)
Like all 5 of your AI friends aren't paying for Google AI? ;)
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Re:TPU Deep Dive by happyopossum on Sunday June 22, 2025 @09:06PM (#44351622)
GP 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).
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Re:TPU Deep Dive by hackernudes on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:07PM (#44348035)
Why 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.

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Re:TPU Deep Dive by surajrmal on Sunday June 22, 2025 @12:08PM (#44348039)
On what basis do you make that claim? It's incredibly misleading and wrong.
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Re:TPU Deep Dive by wkat4242 on Sunday June 22, 2025 @10:19PM (#44351961)
I think you're thinking of the coral ones. The only ones they've sold directly to the public.
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