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Wed. 04/05 – The Grand Theory Of AI Varietals

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Google's TPU Is in Its Fourth Generation

Google has designed its own custom chip called the Tensor Processing Unit or TPU. It uses those chips for more than 90% of the company's work on artificial intelligence training. Google published a scientific paper detailing how it has strung more than 4,000 of the chips together into a supercomputer using its own custom-developed optical switches to help connect machines.

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