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Looks like he aligned himself with the wrong folks here. He is a system builder at heart but not an expert in chip design or EDA. And also not really an ML researcher. Some would say he got taken for a ride by a young charismatic grifter and is now in too deep to back out. His focus on this project didn’t help with his case at Google. They moved all the important stuff away from him and gave it to Demis last year and left him with an honorary title. Quite sad really for someone of his accomplishments.

The court case provides more details. Looks like the junior researchers and Jeff Dean teamed up and bullied Chatterjee and his team to prevent the fraud from being exposed. IIRC the NYT reported at the time that Chatterjee was fired within an hour of disclosing that he was going to report Jeff Dean to the Alphabet Board for misconduct.

Good question. I thought the tpus were a way for Google to apply pricing pressure to nvidia by having an alternative. They are not particularly better (it’s hard to get utilization), and I believe Google continues to be a big buyer of nvidia chips.

Thanks.

Interesting == Suspicious? I think this is a big red flag to those in the know.

Vindicated indeed. The senior researcher and others on the project were bullied for raising concerns of fraud by the two researchers [1]. They filed a lawsuit against Google that has a lot of detailed allegations of fraud [2].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/03/27/google_ai_chip_pa...

[2] https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/03/26/satrajit_vs_google.pdf