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I mean Jeff Dean is probably more ML researcher than probably 90% of the ML researchers out there. Sure, he may not be working on state of the art stuff himself; but he's too up the chain to do that.



That's an appeal to authority, and not an effective one. Jeff Dean doesn't have a good track record in chip design.


What are you even talking about? Jeff had a hand in TPU, which is so successful that all other AI companies are trying to clone this project and spin up their own efforts to make custom AI chips.


Please specify what you mean by "had a hand in TPU" and where else he had his hand. Thank you


By what measure are TPUs “successful”? Where is your data coming from?


They're the only non-nvidia accelerator used to train state of the art large language models at scale?


AWS Trainium does as well: https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/trainium/




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