[vibe42]

Training their own, closed, internal models on their own data sets? Probably a good way to squeeze out some market trading signals.

[nickandbro]

Reminds me of when hedge funds started laying increasingly shorter fiber-optic cable lines to achieve the lowest possible latency for high-frequency trading.

[written-beyond]

I thought these TPUs were primarily used for inference?

[vlovich123]

TPU8t is for training. But even still, once you’ve trained, you need to run the model too. And these kinds of models already have a huge latency hit so there’s not much hurting running it away from the trading switches.

[knowaveragejoe]

As the article states, there's both training and inference dedicated chips.