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zapharyesterday at 8:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

You essentially have to run in google to use them and that probably limits their ability to breakout. Anthropic might be doing this deal as a way to shore up their supply chain and cost of both inference and training by leveraging Google's hardware and chip manufacturing expertise.


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ai-xyesterday at 9:01 PM

Several customers like Citadel, run TPUs in their own datacenters (closer to Exchanges)

lanthissayesterday at 9:36 PM

every tpu thats been made is in use and sold at a high margin, demand is not the issue.