Oracle 与 Google 宣布,Google TPU 将通过 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI)提供,这是 Google TPU 首次在 Google 之外的超大规模云平台上供应,Oracle 将从 2027 日历年起部署并在数年内逐步扩容。
Google TPU 首次进入外部超大规模云,读者可据此观察 AI 算力供应格局与 GPU 替代路径的变化。
Google’s TPUs will run on a hyperscale cloud outside Google for the first time, with Oracle deploying capacity from calendar 2027 and ramping it over several years.
Oracle supplies the power, cooling and data center networking, and its Acceleron network links TPU clusters to Oracle databases and storage, so enterprises can fine-tune and serve models beside their records without cross-cloud transfers.
Google claims its 8th-generation TPUs deliver up to 12.6 PFLOPS of FP4 compute per chip, keep clusters doing productive work over 97% of the time on large training runs, and give up to 80% better performance per dollar for low-latency serving.
Google says its open-source TorchTPU stack runs existing PyTorch code, along with tools such as vLLM and SGLang, on TPUs without model rewrites, which lowers the cost of moving work off NVIDIA GPUs.
The deal carries Google’s effort to sell TPUs beyond its own cloud, which began earlier this year with sales to smaller providers, into a direct hyperscale competitor.
来源:Rohan Paul · x.com