Google to let you pop its AI chips into your own computer as of October
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-to-let-you-pop-its-ai-chips-into-your-own-computer-as-of-october/
Google, one of the top companies in the hot area of artificial intelligence, will begin letting customers directly use its custom processors for the technology starting in October.
Google's TPUs, or tensor processing units, accelerate AI tasks like understanding voice commands or recognizing objects in photos. Today, Google will let you pay to do that kind of work on its cloud-computing infrastructure. But through a program called Edge TPU announced Wednesday, Google will let programmers install the TPUs in their own machines.