[bigcat12345678]

Hi Zak, great achievement.

Xoogler, had connection with people working on TPU.

AFAIK, TPU support on GCP has been started in 2018? Or earlier? It's been 4 years to GA.

Rumors have it that the project has been incredibly difficult to get out due to Googler's poor cross-org collaboration support. It has been a sad story, another one in the list of things that Google could have been putting more resources and made available sooner to the public.

[zak]

I started pitching the Cloud TPU program in 2016. Many, many people have contributed since then to build the products that are available today.

Google is a large and complicated place, but we're getting closer to providing the magical interactive supercomputing experience we've wanted for a long time.

The deep learning landscape is evolving very rapidly, and there is a lot of interest in scaling up further, so the next few years will be exciting.