Tensor Processing Unit, every mention
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Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:24 Diana Hu So, um, you built MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow, the TPU, Gemini, we could spend a whole hour on all the things you've done.
- ▶ 6:40 Diana Hu And instead, you basically built a custom ship, and that was the origin story of the TPU. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:13 Jeff Dean Yeah, I mean, I think, well, TPUs is a good example, like being able to specialize hardware for a very niche problem domain before that problem domain seemed as important as it is today, is one thought experiment.
- ▶ 55:07 Diana Hu Now, one last thing, I'm pretty sure someone in this room or multiple people will eventually build something as consequential as you've done with MapReduce, TPU, distillation, et cetera, et cetera.