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Hallucinations apart, customers in the past complained of Google’s Gemini being slow, especially with larger contexts and token counts.
To solve that problem, the company announced it was building some of its fastest computers to date with its new AI chip called Ironwood, the seventh-generation TPU, which was announced at Google Cloud Next.
Each server, called a “pod” by Google, will interconnect 9,216 Ironwood chips that can jointly run as one mega chip. One pod can deliver 42.5 exaflops of AI performance.
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