Comment by throwaway48476
1 year ago
I suspect it had much more to do with lacking product market fit. They spent 10 years faking demos and dreaming about what they thought AI could do eventually but since it never worked the products never released and so they never expanded. A well optimized TPU will always beat a well optimized GPU on efficiency.
Only because of Nvidia's margins. "Worse but cheaper" is actually great for a company of Googles scale, but it doesn't make for a particularly compelling press release or paper.