If you want to read about them from the hardware perspective, read these three papers: https://
arxiv.org/abs/1704.04760
(about TPU v1, the one that started it off) https://
arxiv.org/abs/2304.01433 (about TPU v4 and its optical interconnect) https://
gwern.net/doc/ai/scaling
/hardware/2021-jouppi.pdf
… (ten lessons)
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TPU Hardware Architecture: From v1 to v4 Optical Interconnect
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Limited Edition AI Hardware Product Launches with 2000 Units
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yeah, I'm on the waitlist, sad its only a limited ~2k units edition.
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Waiting for Turbo 3e hardware release drop
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Also I'm on the waitlist for the drop of the Turbo 3e
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1B 4B 12B Models Running on Consumer GPUs
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The 1B, 4B, and 12B parameter version should run on many consumer GPUs.
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TPUs excel at inference for mixture of experts transformer models
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In general, we've found that TPUs are quite effective at inference, especially for mixture of expert models and handling attention for transformer models with long context. The high speed multidimensional torus interconnects are quite fast and effective. I'm not sure I have a
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DeepSeek MoE Multi-Node Deployment Improves Throughput Latency
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Our AI team just published a blog detailing how we've achieved improved throughput and latency with multi-node deployment of DeepSeek MoE models. Read more:
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3D-Printed Tendon-Driven Robotic Hand Costs Just $1300
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tendon-driven 3D-printed hand from @irmakkguzey and team at the @LerrelPinto lab.
— Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala) 18 avril 2025
* costs $1300 to build, compact human-profile.
* the tendons are actually off-the-shelf fish-line, super strong and never break. the plastic parts break before the tendons ever do.
* mountable on… https://t.co/6xEKZS6uGatendon-driven 3D-printed hand from @irmakkguzey and team at the @LerrelPinto lab.
* costs $1300 to build, compact human-profile.
* the tendons are actually off-the-shelf fish-line, super strong and never break. the plastic parts break before the tendons ever do.
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Helsing HX-2 Strike Drones: autonomous aerial robotics system
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This is the HX-2 Strike Drones from Helsing
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Helsing Unveils HX-2 Strike Drones for Autonomous Operations
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This is the HX-2 Strike Drones from Helsing
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Real AI Hardware Devices Approaching Market Launch Soon
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I hope soon, these are not demo devices, they are very real and polished from what I can tell from first hand experience. I’ve tried demo/prototypes and the feel and finish is very different so I can only assume they will hit the markets in this form factor. when is another