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- _kst_The article mentions "TPU" 79 times, but never explains what the term means.(It's "Tensor Processing Unit".)
- gnabgibTitle: 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
- mekproI wish Google Colab start to provide new TPU model, the most powerful we can get on Colab is still v6e-1 which is too small for serious work.
- xiaoyu2006And again no one can use it.
- qnttyWhy doesn’t Google sell these?
- ur-whaleWhere's the watt/token or $/token figures for each of these?And how does each compare to their NVDA price equivalent?
- a1oIs it just me or the write up have very little information? I can’t grasp how this compare to other tech.
- bigwheelsTFA makes some claims but offers zero data on specs or anything else. Is this a press release?
- hi_hiTypical Google. A literal headline “Opening up TPUs to every developer” but zero information or links on how I, a developer, can use said TPUs.
- oofbey> While we’ve always co-designed our TPUs in partnership with Google DeepMindI love it when companies expose their org charts publicly like this. As if anybody cares that they think about Google and DeepMind as different.
- yieldcrvI’m guessing their skipping the T8 Pro model for the T9/sarcasm at the unoriginal naming scheme
- dude250711I 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.
- waterTanukiA product announcement page with 0 links to purchase or ways to purchase is useless.
- jfckenfishfThe stock market really hates $GOOG doesn't it?