[dogleg77]

That's an appeal to authority, and not an effective one. Jeff Dean doesn't have a good track record in chip design.

[wholehog]

What are you even talking about? Jeff had a hand in TPU, which is so successful that all other AI companies are trying to clone this project and spin up their own efforts to make custom AI chips.

[dogleg77]

Please specify what you mean by "had a hand in TPU" and where else he had his hand. Thank you

[otterley]

By what measure are TPUs “successful”? Where is your data coming from?

[cosentiyes]

They're the only non-nvidia accelerator used to train state of the art large language models at scale?

[otterley]

AWS Trainium does as well: https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/trainium/