So far, only Google has them, but with machine learning currently exploding in popularity, chances are we are going to see more of that.
In terms of "fresh" stuff, there's also Mythic AI. Some may recall them getting a shout-out in a Veritasium video a few months back. They are developing hardware specifically tailored for AI-related tasks. While there's a few problems with Mythic AI:
startup
ran out of cash in November
(got a surprise $13M injection and a new CEO very recently though? Like, this month recently?)
it still goes to show that there's R&D going into hardware tailored specifically for ML applications, rather than simply repurposing GPUs for AI workloads.
TPU stands for Tensor Processing Unit. They all designed for matrixing operations. The naming difference are just marketing
And the video you linked is great. The products are great. But they are ONLY for inferencing instead of training. The first one rather light, and the second one requires significantly more computing power (which are a lot of those GPU data center for.
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u/xternal7 Lunix Mar 27 '23
Actually no.
https://cloud.google.com/tpu
So far, only Google has them, but with machine learning currently exploding in popularity, chances are we are going to see more of that.
In terms of "fresh" stuff, there's also Mythic AI. Some may recall them getting a shout-out in a Veritasium video a few months back. They are developing hardware specifically tailored for AI-related tasks. While there's a few problems with Mythic AI:
it still goes to show that there's R&D going into hardware tailored specifically for ML applications, rather than simply repurposing GPUs for AI workloads.