Anthropic Hires Amir Salek, Founder of Google's TPU Program
Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, who built and led Google's Tensor Processing Unit program for nearly a decade, to help run its own in-house chip effort, Bloomberg reported.
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TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) are Google’s custom-built chips for training and running AI models, offered as an alternative to NVIDIA GPUs through Google Cloud and used to power Google’s own models like Gemini. This hub covers new TPU generations, their performance and availability, and their role in the broader AI chip market.
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Google Wins Right to Buy $12.2B Marvell Stake in Chip Deal
Marvell issued Google a warrant worth up to $12.2 billion in stock, tied to an expanded deal for custom AI chips in Google's TPU ecosystem, an SEC filing shows.
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What Is a TPU — and How Is It Different From a GPU?
A TPU is Google's custom AI chip, purpose-built to run the matrix math behind neural networks — and now rented out by the gigawatt to power rival labs' models too.
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