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		WalterGR 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google will let companies run Gemini models in the... Google doesn’t make TPUs available to 3rd parties, right? I assume there would be tremendous reverse-engineering risk if they were to include them?

fc417fc802 10 months ago [–]

Not really. Reverse engineering a modern chip is no small feat. Any company capable of it is also capable of designing their own from scratch. However getting something taped out (and debugged) on a modern process is massively expensive.

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