TPUs

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Comment by gnabgib 1 hour ago

Title: Our newest TPUs: 8tx and 8i Max, built for the agentic era Small discussion previously (16 points, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50425018

Comment by xiaoyu2006 54 minutes ago

And again no one can use it.

Comment by asdfasgasdgasdg 16 minutes ago

Plenty of people and firms use TPUs, both directly and indirectly. You can rent them via Google Cloud. Apple Intelligence and Anthropic both use them. And of course your Gemini traffic is using the TPUs as well.

Comment by Yajirobe 5 minutes ago

I know right?

> TPUs are now a rapidly growing business with nearly 100 customers

‘Nearly 100 customers’ in 10 years isn’t very impressive

Comment by ur-whale 53 minutes ago

> And again no one can use it.

Did you by chance fail to read who builds these things?

Comment by ur-whale 54 minutes ago

Where's the watt/token or $/token figures for each of these?

And how does each compare to their NVDA price equivalent?

Comment by qntty 58 minutes ago

Why doesn’t Google sell these?

Comment by 0cf8612b2e1e 32 minutes ago

It’s a competitive advantage which allows them to deliver lower cost per inference. If quality continues to asymptote, best value becomes most interesting to consumers.

Then again, if they can provide competition to Nvidia, it may force Nvidia to lower prices across the board.

Comment by kccqzy 19 minutes ago

They do. In particular they sold to Anthropic.

Comment by a1o 44 minutes ago

Is it just me or the write up have very little information? I can’t grasp how this compare to other tech.

Comment by danpalmer 6 minutes ago

This is a marketing announcement, it's got the right level of info for the target audience. If you want more technical detail there's loads available elsewhere online.

Comment by waterTanuki 51 minutes ago

A product announcement page with 0 links to purchase or ways to purchase is useless.

Comment by Alien1Being 7 minutes ago

So an announcement about a hypothetical highly effective new chemotherapy for glioblastoma, with no links for you to buy it yourself is useless ?

You are not the target market.

Comment by waterTanuki 3 minutes ago

Then why is the page available for me to view?

Comment by oofbey 1 minute ago

> While we’ve always co-designed our TPUs in partnership with Google DeepMind

I love it when companies expose their org charts publicly like this. As if anybody cares that they think about Google and DeepMind as different.

Comment by bigwheels 12 minutes ago

TFA makes some claims but offers zero data on specs or anything else. Is this a press release?

Comment by hi_hi 1 hour ago

Typical Google. A literal headline “Opening up TPUs to every developer” but zero information or links on how I, a developer, can use said TPUs.

Comment by asdfasgasdgasdg 10 minutes ago

There are various bits of this blog post that detail how they’re making it easier for devs to use TPUs, particularly the discussion of TorchTPU and the attendant link. That being said if you’re looking for a link to a tutorial I think it’s easily findable on Google. “Tpu tutorial Google cloud” or “Tpu developer hub” would be good queries. For example [this](https://docs.cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tpus/quickstart-c...) is at least somewhat responsive.

Comment by lakeviewterrace 1 hour ago

At the very least they can let us know when they plan to suddenly abandon support for them.

You know like the Google TPUs I own that are now useless.

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Comment by jiggawatts 1 hour ago

I don’t know why everyone keeps complaining! It’s just a simple twenty-seven step process neatly spread across three portals! (Documentation coming soon.)

Comment by genghisjahn 40 minutes ago

You’ll know sign up is complete when you started getting charged.

Comment by yieldcrv 43 minutes ago

I’m guessing their skipping the T8 Pro model for the T9

/sarcasm at the unoriginal naming scheme

Comment by sterlind 20 minutes ago

I'm hearing good things about the T1000. it's an ideal platform for highly survivable autonomous agents.

Comment by dude250711 29 minutes ago

I am ready for the post-agentic era now... The agentic era turned out to be the most proclaimed era in the history... It's time for a change.

Comment by ryandrake 25 minutes ago

I can't take anyone who uses "agentic" seriously.

Comment by jfckenfishf 1 hour ago

The stock market really hates $GOOG doesn't it?