Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support

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Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support
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I don't think they're opposing goals. Google does not make more money from a task running in its cloud than on its devices, if anything that costs them more money.

I think it's realistic to assume that Google is going to impose quotas on those "free" AI features that are running on the cloud right now and have people pay for more quota. It makes no economic sense for Google to keep offering those compute services for free. Remember Google Colab? Started completely free with V100 and A100 GPUs, now you have to pay to just keep using a simple T4 GPU without interruption.

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