TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max

gnabgib

Title: Our newest TPUs: 8tx and 8i Max, built for the agentic era Small discussion previously (16 points, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50425018

hi_hi

Typical Google. A literal headline “Opening up TPUs to every developer” but zero information or links on how I, a developer, can use said TPUs.

qntty

Why doesn’t Google sell these?

xiaoyu2006

And again no one can use it.

ur-whale

Where's the watt/token or $/token figures for each of these? And how does each compare to their NVDA price equivalent?

waterTanuki

A product announcement page with 0 links to purchase or ways to purchase is useless.

a1o

Is it just me or the write up have very little information? I can’t grasp how this compare to other tech.

yieldcrv

I’m guessing their skipping the T8 Pro model for the T9 /sarcasm at the unoriginal naming scheme

dude250711

I am ready for the post-agentic era now... The agentic era turned out to be the most proclaimed era in the history... It's time for a change.

bigwheels

TFA makes some claims but offers zero data on specs or anything else. Is this a press release?

oofbey

> While we’ve always co-designed our TPUs in partnership with Google DeepMind I love it when companies expose their org charts publicly like this. As if anybody cares that they think about Google and DeepMind as different.

_kst_

The article mentions "TPU" 79 times, but never explains what the term means. (It's "Tensor Processing Unit".)

mekpro

I wish Google Colab start to provide new TPU model, the most powerful we can get on Colab is still v6e-1 which is too small for serious work.

keyle

New gpu chips are like the old IBM Watson. I'll never get one. "That's great, but it does nothing for me."

saagarjha

> 8t for large-scale training and 8i for real-time reasoning > TPU 8i Max for massive context windows and the highest compute density per rack, and TPU 8tx for secure and confidential inference You had one job, Google

freakynit

Their TPUSync post is highly recommended as well. This is basically how many of the open-source repos like Strata for Qwen series models are working. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/ai-infrastructure/intro... https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata/blob/main/docs/HOW_IT_WOR...