Google Cloud

also referred to as: gcp · google cloud platform

part of Google includes Google Cloud Code, Google Cloud Run, Google Cloud Next, Google Cloud BigQuery, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Spanner, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Text To Speech, Google Cloud TPU

8 statements across 6 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2023 by Dylan Patel · said 68 times in 37 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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brought up most by Simon Eskildsen (11), Shawn Wang (11), William Beauchamp (3), Itamar Friedman (3), Erik Bernhardsson (3), Alessio Fanelli (3), Shrestha Basu Mallick (2), Kevin Ben-Smith (2)

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2025 25 mentions in 17 episodes 1 per episode
2024 12 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
2023 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode

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Dec 5, 2023 positive
Opinion
Patel: AWS holds major infrastructure efficiency advantage over Azure and GCP
“Behind the scenes, they've done a lot on the infrastructure that is super custom, That Microsoft, Azure, and Google Cloud just don't even match in terms of efficiency. Like, if you think about the cost to rent out SSD space, so the cost to rent, you know, offe…”
Dylan Patel Dec 5, 2023 ▶ 3:04 The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
Feb 19, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Modal Users Save Money on Inference Despite Higher GPU Rates
“In many cases, like users who do inference on those platforms or those clouds even though we charge a slightly higher price per, per GPU hour, a lot of users like moving their large scale inference use cases to model, like end up saving a lot of money because …”
Erik Bernhardsson Feb 19, 2024 ▶ 25:47 Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
Feb 28, 2024
Disclosure
Firshman: Replicate does not own production GPUs, relies on GCP and CoreWeave
“We don't own our own GPUs. We've got a few that we play around with, but not, not for production workloads, and we are primarily built on this public cloud, so primarily GCP and CoreWeave, and like, it's some smatterings elsewhere, and...”
Ben Firshman Feb 28, 2024 ▶ 58:06 A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
Mar 14, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Snipd builds on Python, GCP, and Flutter for cross-platform clients
“So the general tech stack is our entire back end is, or 90% of our back end is written in Python. Hosting everything on Google Cloud platform, and our front end is written with, well, we're using the Flutter framework.”
Kevin Ben-Smith Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 28:39 Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
Oct 2, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Howard: Answer.AI runs fully in-house stack without AWS or Google Cloud
“This group of, which has averaged about 10 to 12 people, currently nine, I think, have built a pretty Transformational and complex piece of software, which we can do a quick demo of later if you're interested. Using a complete web application development platf…”
Jeremy Howard Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 4:28 The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
Mar 12, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Eskildsen: Oregon GCP-to-AWS latency is roughly 14ms due to Seattle routing
“Like U.S. East, the Google, like the GCP and AWS data centers are like within a millisecond on each other on the public exchanges. But in Oregon, uniquely the GCP data center sits like a couple hundred kilometers, like east of Portland and the AWS region sits …”
Simon Eskildsen Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 21:27 Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
Mar 12, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Eskildsen: Turbopuffer's Notion workload still runs reliably on GCP
“This workload still runs on GCP for what it's worth, right? Because it's so, it was just, it was so reliable. So it was never about moving off GCP.”
Simon Eskildsen Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 23:08 Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
Mar 12, 2026
Disclosure
Turbopuffer Bought Oregon Dark Fiber to Serve Notion Across Clouds
“It started getting really painful in like mid-twenty-twenty-four, because we were closing deals with Notion actually, that was running in AWS, and we're like, trust us, you really want us to run this in GCP? And they were like, no, I don't know about that, lik…”
Simon Eskildsen Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 20:08 Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
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