I am not sure what context Jensen said that. But midjourney uses tpu. Apple uses tpu. They are no other frontier labs that use it, but Google + Anthropic is 2 out of 3 frontier lab so.....

You could reasonably say that "A majority of frontier labs uses TPU to train and serve their model."

Who is the other frontier lab other than Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google? I thought they were ahead of everyone else.

They also degrade their own direct services with little warning or thought put into change management, so, to be fair, Apple may be getting the same quality of service as the rest of us.

Apple is basically in the same boat as AMD and Intel. They have a weak, raster-focused GPU architecture that doesn't scale to 100B+ inference workloads and especially struggles with large context prefill. TPUs smoke them on inference, and Nvidia hardware is far-and-away more efficient for training.

Some on this forum will be working for companies with conflicts of interest on the topic, and if an employees words were construed to be the opinions of the company that could be bad for that person.

The tech companies train their employees to say this in their social media guidance and training.

At this point that phase is an attempt at status signaling.

> Who's else would they be?

Their employer? They may work at related company, and are required to say this.

Its to cover their ass in the event someone makes a stink and quotes them as if its a company opinion.