December 11, 2025

How Google’s TPUs are reshaping the economics of large-scale AI

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For more than a decade, Nvidia’s GPUs have underpinned nearly every major advance in modern AI. That position is now being challenged. Frontier models such as Google’s Gemini 3 and Anthropic’s Claude 4.5 Opus were trained not on Nvidia hardware, but...