xiaoyu2006 6 hours ago

And again no one can use it.

asdfasgasdgasdg 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Plenty of people and firms use TPUs, both directly and indirectly. You can rent them via Google Cloud. Apple Intelligence and Anthropic both use them. And of course your Gemini traffic is using the TPUs as well.

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Yajirobe 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I know right?

> TPUs are now a rapidly growing business with nearly 100 customers

‘Nearly 100 customers’ in 10 years isn’t very impressive

	▲	faangguyindia 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Each customer spending a billion dollars is impressive
	▲	lunar_rover 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		They'll get less with a billion customers, unfortunately.
	▲	cman1444 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Lots of impressive companies have one customer (the government).
	▲	IncreasePosts 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		4 customers make up a majority of nvidias revenue
	▲	UltraSane 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It is if each customer is paying for a million of them.

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TacticalCoder 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> And again no one can use it.

So basically Google has both SOTA models (Argon and Carbon and top of the line TPUs, but...

Google is in trouble?

(reading HN search is dead and hence Google is done)

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ur-whale 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> And again no one can use it.

Did you by chance fail to read who builds these things?