Google Unveils New AI Chips to Speed Training and Take on Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud Wars
• Google announced new AI chip Cloud TPU v5p that trains large language models faster than previous chips • Chip part of effort by Big Tech companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft to develop own AI hardware rather than rely solely on Nvidia • Google CEO took shots at Microsoft and Amazon, positioning new Axion CPU chip as competitor to their Arm-based chips • Axion chip provides better performance and energy efficiency than other Arm-based chips • Google trying to get customers to use Axion chip to run cloud services on Google infrastructure rather than rivals