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Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different" Apr 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:40 Marc Andreessen Well, the chip, and then my understanding is Google is running, I don't think, I don't know exactly what, these are rumors that I've heard, or maybe it's public, but I think Google's running very old TPUs and very profitably.

Dylan Patel Explains the AI War While Cooking | In-Context Cooking Feb 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 49:51 Dylan Patel And, and so now we've entered an age in, especially in 26, but as we go into 27, 28, um, you know, when we look in 26, Google would buy a lot more TPUs, but they can't ramp production fast enough, right? 2 times in the scene

Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis Feb 24, 2026 · 18 mentions

The AI Frontier: from Gemini 3 Deep Think distilling to Flash — Jeff Dean Feb 12, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:46 Alessio Fanelli And I think initially when you work on the TPU, you were thinking about, you know, if everybody that use Google, we use the voice model for like three minutes a day, they were like, you need to double your CPU number.
  • ▶ 1:00:50 Jeff Dean You know, I think combining a lot of those techniques and really just trying to push on scaling things up over the last, you know, 15 years has been, you know, really important, and that means, you know, improvements in the hardware, so,…

Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay Jan 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:09 unnamed speaker So then this is very related to NVIDIA's recent purchase of GroK, which I don't know if you have views because you're very TPU centric, but are we memory or compute bound?

Why is everyone cloning Deep Research? Feb 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 51:20 Arush Sehgal Like, um, I used to work on the MLPerf benchmarks and like, that was like, yeah, you'd put like a bunch of engineers in a room and in a few days they do like amazing performance improvements on, on our TPU stack and things like that.

2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents Jan 1, 2025 · 2 mentions

[Paper Club] BERT: Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Nov 27, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 43:33 unnamed speaker Um, does TPUs not have the, the divisible by 64, uh, batch, I mean, like, 3 times in the scene

The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka Jul 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:56:35 Yi Tay Every time you add complexity, especially if it's like something that's not hardware optimized, no kernels, or like something that is like bad for TPUs or whatever, your model just becomes like slow.

Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept Mar 27, 2024 · 1 mention

Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI Mar 6, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:35 unnamed speaker He mentioned when he was at Google, TensorFlow, it's trying to be optimized to make TPUs go brr, you know, and go as fast. 2 times in the scene

The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis Dec 5, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 3:22 Dylan Patel Like, if you think about the cost to rent out, uh, SSD space, so the cost to rent, you know, offer database service on top of that, obviously, uh, cost to rent out a certain level of CPU performance, um, Amazon has a massive advantage…
  • ▶ 21:41 Dylan Patel Uh, so the TPUs, uh, so, so the Google TPU is, like, super interesting because Google's been working with Broadcom, who's the number one networking company in the world, right? 4 times in the scene

The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai Oct 20, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 33:57 Jeremy Howard So Google had just released their TPUs, and so I heard from my friends at Google that they had put together this big team to, to smash Dawn Bench so that they could prove to people that they had to use Google Cloud and use their TPUs and… 3 times in the scene

Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp Jun 20, 2023 · 9 mentions

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