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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

Dataflow Processing Unit (DPU) is the product of Wave Computing, a Silicon Valley company which is revolutionizing artificial intelligence and deep learning with its dataflow-based solutions. Image Processing Unit (IPU) is the Pixel Visual Core designed by Google and integrated in Google Pixel 2 released in 2017.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.