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The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 0:40 Sundar Pichai A lot of like, like TPUs, transformers were all done to solve a specific product need to some extent, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:44 John Collison AI services for different things, but Gemini on TPUs is just so fast, and I'm curious how much this is part of the explicit product strategy and how you think of it, or it's much more nuanced than that.
- ▶ 52:27 John Collison We're now going to a world where, as you say, that's not the case with, ah, you know, TPUs and how you allocate that. 3 times in the scene
Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
- ▶ 0:01 John Collison He's a former math whiz and Haskell programmer who became a TPU architect for Google, and now he's teamed up with Google's former chief chip architect to design a better chip for AI. 4 times in the scene