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[my123]

Those aren't anywhere near the flexibility of a GPU. It's a more specialized accelerator tailored to machine learning workloads.

[rockwotj → my123]

Google already did this with TPUs and it supposedly saved them a ton in energy costs. I read somewhere that NVIDIA doesn’t gain as much by making the chips more cost effective, just making them more powerful

[wmf → my123]

Which is what people want.

[schneems → wmf]

Brawndo, it's got what plants crave.

[w-ll → my123]

thats the point. they dont want GPUs, they want AIPUs

[mr_toad → my123]

> It's a more specialized accelerator tailored to machine learning workloads.

Hard to imagine anyone using a cloud GPU for anything else.