Short answer: Jordan Metzner says Google announced two new TPUs, Elon Musk tweeted that TPUs are underrated, and Google is becoming a major inference player that has signed new inference deals.
Watch this answer from Episode 40 (starts at 19:17) · Episode 40 notes and transcript
From Episode 40: Claude Design Changes Everything (Figma in Trouble?), starting at 19:17.
Jordan Metzner [19:17]: So we'll probably see some innovation in this space, like the ability to, like, they call it, like, steering essentially, like, while a model is doing its work, kind of implement or aggregate new information. But, yeah, I think the models are getting heavier. The times to develop them are getting longer, and so you're starting to see, maybe some lulls in the in that time period before, like, one of these models comes out and announces something large. But I think, just to wrap up on Google really quickly today, and I don't know if that was in our news stack, but I think it's Google's developer conference this week, but they just announced two new TPUs. Sam, I don't know if you saw that. If you can pull up the article, it'll be great. It's on top of TechCrunch and everywhere else, or Techmeme. But, yeah, they had launched two new TPUs. Elon tweeted that TPUs are underrated. As you recall, Jonathan Ross, who invented the TPU at Google, just sold Groq to NVIDIA.
Jordan Metzner [20:02]: And so, Google becomes a major inference player. I think they just signed another inference deal this morning. I had read some news about it, and I know they just signed, like, another inference deal with somebody else too. Yeah. There's just been it just you know, you can't count Google out. You can't bet against them. They got a ton of money. Obviously, it's led by really smart people, and they're gonna continue to develop and build, things to keep them in the race. This is just one more week in, like, the tech space. You know? And this isn't any anything special. It's just literally, like, one more week. Great episode. Really fun to chat, and super excited to next week's episode. I think we got some guests coming up over the next few weeks. Sure if next week or the following, but know I we got some great founders coming on board from some great AI companies. Yeah, see you all next week. This was really awesome. Bye bye.
