Comment by janalsncm
12 hours ago
I just made a comment to the same effect. They should be trying to compete with MacBook mini.
Google literally already sells Coral usb inference engines, so they’re most of the way there already: https://www.coral.ai/products/accelerator
> so they’re most of the way there already
Reading comments like this makes me feel like I live on a different planet from some people.
The Coral USB dongle is from 2019 - it is a dev kit, not a souped-up edge inference unit. It was not designed to compete with the Macbook Mini (???) and is not some sort of touchstone or landmark in AI development. It's a tiny TPU that Google made to prototype technologies for their own SOCs like Google Tensor later down the line.