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Google Takes On Nvidia in AI 4/5/23

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Disruptors, Tech, Technology, Cnbc, Management, Business, Faang, Investing

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

AI is redrawing the lines of competition in big tech. Today it's Google going after Nvidia, arguing its supercomputers / computing capacity is faster (and, attention ESG investors, greener).

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0:00.0

It's been kind of fun, hasn't it, to see the Tech Titans trade shots back and forth with billions of dollars at stake.

0:05.3

Our audience, they might remember that back when Microsoft first showcased Chat GPT,

0:09.8

Satcha Nodella said he wanted to make Google, quote, dance.

0:13.6

Ever since we've seen a fice year more aggressive Google

0:15.9

on the generative AI front, the company

0:18.2

has now published a scientific paper

0:20.1

that seems to fire back, letting Nodela and Invidia, another giant in the space,

0:24.4

know that not only are they dancing, but they don't even need a partner here.

0:27.9

The paper says essentially that its supercomputer is faster and more efficient than comparable systems from

0:34.0

invidia and that matters because the chips at the compute level is what

0:38.0

drives the products like chat gp t and barred. Large language models

0:42.0

they are becoming so big guys that they cannot be

0:44.1

stored on a single chip. So they have to be split across thousands of chips, which

0:48.2

then have to work together creating a supercomputer. So Google here is saying that it its in-house chip, it's known as the

0:54.6

TENSER Processing Unit or TPU, is being used now for 90% of its work on AI

1:00.1

training and Google says it can be strung together to create better generative

1:04.1

AI than comparable systems from NVIDIA. Now the context here is that more

1:09.2

big tech is designing their own chips like Apple and its M1 series that displaced Intel.

1:14.4

There's also Amazon's custom computing chips for data centers aimed at lower and cost for its

1:18.4

customers.

1:19.4

And guys, this is likely just the start of the AI battle at the chip or the compute level that will drive

1:24.8

these consumer-facing products. At this stage though Wall Street it's worth

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