Sundar Pichai says Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, up from 480T tokens per month a year ago and 9.7T tokens per month two years ago
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Discussion
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@mweinbach
Max Weinbach
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Top companies in Google Cloud are doing 1T tokens a day, if they move 80% of their workloads to Flash they can save ~$1B annually according to @sundarpichai
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@alliekmiller
Allie K. Miller
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Holy crap. And I don't say that lightly. Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, up 7x from last year. That's a 3 with 15 zeroes after it. Actually, it's 3 and a 2 and 14 zeroes. #Google [image]
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@edzitron
Ed Zitron
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these guys will share literally any number other than “how much revenue we made on AI”
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@officiallogank
Logan Kilpatrick
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3.2 quadrillion tokens a month and still growing :) [image]
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@kimmonismus
@kimmonismus
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This is inane. Tokens processed at insane scale! [image]
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@jamespmcleod.ca
James McLeod
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“Token” is an annoying and stupid word, and I kinda hate how it's permeated society through both AI and crypto. [embedded post]
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@google
@google
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At last year's #GoogleIO, we were processing 480 trillion tokens a month across our surfaces. Now, we're processing over 3.2 *quadrillion* tokens a month. That's a 7x increase in just a year. These tokens represent problems being solved — by a user or a developer or a [image]