Secret sauce is in the ML compiler and accelerator used, but all those improvements simply lower the cost of training a model. You could still do it on a regular GPU, it would just take you more time.
In the case of Google, they probably used TPU chips that you can't get direct 'bare metal' access to anyway, so none of that code would have helped.
The actual optimizer used and parameters (like the learning rate schedule) is normally published in the research paper.