Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Anyone know why they trained on TPUs? My understanding is that the main benefit of a TPU is inference. Is this not true?


The first generation TPUs were focused on inference. Second generation TPUs are focused on both training and inference.

https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-off...




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: