SMRTR AIDec 27, 2024TechRadar

You can now rent Google's most powerful AI chip: Trillium TPU underpins Gemini 2.0 and will put AMD and Nvidia on high alert

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Google's sixth-gen AI chip, Trillium, is now available for rent, offering 4x the training performance of previous versions. Used to train Google's Gemini 2.0 AI model, it boasts 2.5x improvement in training performance per dollar, 67% better energy efficiency, and 4.7x higher peak compute per chip. It forms the core of Google Cloud's AI Hypercomputer, featuring over 100,000 interconnected Trillium chips, making high-performance AI infrastructure more accessible.

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