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The Next 100X For AI Hardware Performance Will Be Harder

August 29, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

For those of us who like hardware and were hoping for a big reveal about the TPUv5e AI processor and surrounding system, interconnect, and software stack at the Hot Chips 2023 conference this week, the opening keynote by Jeff Dean and Amin Vahdat, the two most important techies at Google, was a bit of a disappointment. …

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Google Gives A Peek At What A Quantum Computer Can Do

July 18, 2023 Jeffrey Burt 3

Four years ago, Google engineers boasted of achieving “quantum supremacy” following experiments that showed its 53-qubit Sycamore quantum system solving problems that classical supercomputers either can’t or take a very long time to accomplish. …

AI

The Balancing Act Of Training Generative AI

July 17, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

We learn a lot of lessons from the hyperscalers and HPC centers of the world, and one of them is that those who control their own software control their own fates. …

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With Huge Costs, Efficiency Is The Key To Mainstreaming Generative AI

June 28, 2023 Jeffrey Burt 2

The hype around generative AI is making every industry vibrate at an increasingly high pitch in a way that we have not seen since the days of the Dot Com boom and sock puppets. …

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When Push Comes To Shove, Google Invests Heavily In GPU Compute

May 11, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 15

A year ago, at its Google I/O 2022 event, Google revealed to the world that it had eight pods of TPUv4 accelerators, with a combined 32,768 of its fourth generation, homegrown matrix math accelerators, running in a machine learning hub located in its Mayes County, Oklahoma datacenter. …

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Missing The Moat With AI

May 4, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

Google is a big company with thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of software engineers, who all hold their own opinions about what AI means to the future of business and the future of their own jobs and ours. …

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Cerebras Smashes AI Wide Open, Countering Hypocrites

March 29, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

We could have a long, thoughtful, and important conversation about the way AI is transforming the world. …

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Deep Dive On Google’s Exascale TPUv4 AI Systems

October 11, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

It seems like we have been talking about Google’s TPUv4 machine learning accelerators for a long time, and that is because we have been. …

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Number Three Has To Work Very Hard In The Cloud

October 11, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

Being in the cloud business is difficult and expensive – even for a rich company like Google. …

Cloud

Google Follows Suit With Microsoft On Ampere Arm Instances

July 15, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

A long time ago, when we first started The Next Platform, Urs Hölzle, then senior vice president of the Technical Infrastructure team at Google, told us that to gain a 20 percent improvement in price/performance it would absolutely change from the X86 architecture to Power architecture – or indeed any other architecture – and even for one generation of machines. …

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