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Can someone ELI5 this?



Google has a megawatt-scale TPUv5 cluster that they can spare for stunts, and they are flexing it.


tl;dr - google has big computer (a lot of TPUs)

they just showed they could indeed make 50k TPUs do some flops.

With no paper this is just a marketing press release - the only takeaway is that existing tech stacks can utilize it probably.




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