[spacenick88]

It's kind of funny how DeepLearning mirrors and even directly competes with the CryptoCurrency world for computing power. First everyone was using graphics cards and then few very strong players started doing ASICs and everyone else is left in the dust.

[monocasa]

The interesting difference being that TPUs are available for rent to pretty much anyone, whereas crypto currency ASICs appear to be horded until they're not as valuable.