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Comment by mlmonkey

6 hours ago

FTA:

> One pod of TPU 8t is 121 ExaFlops; or 121,000 PetaFlops.

Meanwhile, the compute capacity of the top 10 supercomputers in the entire world is 11,487 Petaflops.[1]

I know, I know, not the same flops, yada yada, but still. Just 1 pod alone is quite a beast.

Edit: [1] https://top500.org/lists/top500/2025/11/

Not only not the same size, 4-bit flops versus 64-bit flops, but not the same programmability either. the TPUs can do just matrix-multiplications and some supporting math.

Otherwise bitcoin mining rigs dwarf everything, if you just want to count raw operations per second.