Google touts its TPUs as alternative to Nvidia AI chips; Meta expresses interest

Google is intensifying its effort to challenge Nvidia in the AI chip market, according to a report from The Information on Monday. Historically, Google has used its custom tensor processing units (TPUs) inhouse to run its own cloud infrastructure, offering them to customers only through Google Cloud for large AI workloads. The report says Google is now proposing a significant shift, allowing customers to install TPUs within their own data centres rather than relying solely on its facilities. And social media giant Meta is emerging as a major…