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Plenty of people and firms use TPUs, both directly and indirectly. You can rent them via Google Cloud. Apple Intelligence and Anthropic both use them. And of course your Gemini traffic is using the TPUs as well.

I know right?

> TPUs are now a rapidly growing business with nearly 100 customers

‘Nearly 100 customers’ in 10 years isn’t very impressive

Each customer spending a billion dollars is impressive

4 customers make up a majority of nvidias revenue

Lots of impressive companies have one customer (the government).

They'll get less with a billion customers, unfortunately.

It is if each customer is paying for a million of them.

> And again no one can use it.

So basically Google has both SOTA models (Argon and Carbon and top of the line TPUs, but...

Google is in trouble?

(reading HN search is dead and hence Google is done)

> And again no one can use it.

Did you by chance fail to read who builds these things?