Comment by suttontom

Google was calling itself an "AI-first" company beginning in 2016 or 2017. They designed and built TPUs nearly a decade ago and were using transformer models in products like Google Translate but didn't make a big fuss about it, it just made the product way better. People should at least credit Sundar somewhat for this, it turned out to be quite prescient, especially the advantage of having your own chips that are specifically designed for ML.