Source: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027
Meta Platforms has signed a deal to rent Google's AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to develop new AI models, according to a person involved in the talks.
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@carlquintanilla
Carl Quintanilla
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“.. it's not lost on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang that two of the world's best AI models, from Google and Anthropic, were developed fully or partly using AI server chips made by Google rather than Nvidia GPUs”. — @theinformation.com $GOOGL $NVDA — www.theinformation.com/articles/ …
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@jukan05
Jukan
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Everyone, how do you handle situations where industry research shows the complete opposite of what the executives are claiming? Meta's MTIA is exactly this kind of case... The leadership keeps emphasizing over and over that MTIA is doing fine, but the stories coming out are clea…
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@benbajarin
Ben Bajarin
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I'd wager they are the first to drop out of custom silicon.