Google Unveils Latest Chips For Powering AI

(FILES) A large Google logo is seen at Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California, on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP)   Google unveiled new generation tensor processing units (TPUs) for training artificial intelligence and powering digital “agents” that are all the rage in the tech world. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-1672569656851-0"); }); Google, along with Amazon, has taken to making its own cutting-edge AI chips, taking control of designs and seeking to reduce reliance on coveted Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) that dominate the market. High-performance TPUs were among innovations touted at Google’s annual cloud computing conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. “In the era of AI agents, infrastructure needs to evolve to take on the most demanding AI workloads,” Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said in a blog post. “This year, we’re bringing the eighth generation of our Tensor Processing Units with a dual chip approach.” Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-1672569913499-0"); }); One of the new TPUs is optimized for training large language models that power AI, and the other is tailored for a reasoning and decision-making process called “inference” used by AI agents.   This photograph, taken on January 13, 2025, in Toulouse, shows screens displaying the logo of Grok, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by xAI, the American company specialising in artificial intelligence, and its founder, South African businessman Elon Musk.   Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-1672587799169-0"); }); AI agents are digital assistants that can independently tend to computing tasks. The TPUs, created in partnership with semiconductor maker Broadcom, will be available later this year, according to Google Cloud unit leader Thomas Kurian.   NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the Live Keynote Pregame during the NVIDIA GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in Washington, DC, on October 28, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)   Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-1672587060870-0"); });   READ ALSO: Oil Up 4% On Uncertain Iran-US Ceasefire Prospects NVIDIA, early this year, announced production of new Vera and Rubin GPUs for powering AI, shortly before cloud computing giant Amazon unveiled the latest generation of its custom Trainium processors. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft continue to integrate Nvidia GPUs into their computing infrastructures.       AFP Join Our Whatsapp Channel To join: Simply click on the link below & turn on notifications to get the latest updates Subscribe to Our Newsletter In This Article: AI Google Internet semiconductor us More Stories Microsoft Unveils ‘Largest-Ever’ Investment In Australia Humans Far Behind As Robot Breaks Record At Beijing Half Marathon YouTube Suspends Pro-Iran Channel Posting Lego-Style Clips Mocking Trump /* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * / var disqus_shortname = 'channelstelevision'; // Required - Replace example with your forum shortname / * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */ (function() { var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true; dsq.src = '//' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js'; (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq); })(); Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

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