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Google forks the TPU
For the first time in a decade of TPUs, Google built two chips instead of one — a training chip and a serving chip — because the economics of the two jobs have pulled apart.
Nano Banana 2
Google's cheap, fast image model briefly beat its own premium model — and a rival — on a blind quality leaderboard, at about half the price.
Money stopped being the bottleneck
Alphabet booked $62.6B of profit in a single quarter and still told investors its cloud revenue would have been higher if it could only build the compute fast enough to meet demand.
Gemini's 900 million
Pichai told Google I/O that the Gemini app has passed 900 million monthly users, more than doubling in a year — a number the press promptly set against ChatGPT's, even though the two count different weeks.
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