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TPU
Tensor Processing Unit - Google's custom hardware accelerator designed specifically for machine learning workloads.
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Graphics Processing Unit - hardware accelerator with thousands of cores, essential for parallel computation in deep learning.
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Shipping AI Compute Informal term for computational resources (GPUs, TPUs, time) required for training or running AI models. Shipping AI FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second - a measure of computational performance, used to quantify training and inference costs. Training Mixed Precision Training Using lower precision (FP16) for some computations while keeping FP32 for stability, speeding up training. Training Tensor Parallelism Splitting individual layers/tensors across devices for very large models.