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Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia

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Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia

Google Cloud on Wednesday announced that its eighth generation of custom-built AI chips, or tensor processing units (TPUs), will be split in two. One chip, named the TPU 8t, will be geared for model training and another, the TPU 8i, is aimed at inference.

Inference is the ongoing usage of models, aka what happens after users submit prompts.

Originally reported by TechCrunch