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The "on life support" title has absolutely no justification and is just a sad editorialization with no evidence from insiders at google. They could have just as easily said "tensor chip isn't so good with tensors" and gone with a more factual headline.

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The image Google has created in the market of their products is, stellar success or death. The article states and provides examples where the chips are completely missing the mark (that Apple is setting) and that the chips aren’t a stellar success, so life support is probably a group of people trying to keep the project alive.

“Tensor chip isn’t so good with tensors”

“My car isn’t so good at driving.”

Kind of sounds like life support.

As if that had ever stopped one of the big established car companies from building more bad cars.

"Sorry I am just an AI chip, I can't help you running LLMs"

You laugh, but the requirements are actually very different between computer vision and other pre-2023 "AI" tasks and LLMs.

LLMs are hopelessly memory bandwidth bound. Most other models are compute bound.

AI goes through cycles where whichever field is currently making the most advances gets all the hype. But just because LLMs are currently flashy doesn't mean that object detection, image segmentation, facial recognition, image generation, text-to-speech, speech-to-text or anomaly detection are suddenly less useful.

Well, bad cars don’t offload the driving to some kind of metaphorical cloud service. So I guess there’s some limitations to my analogy.

I think BlueCruise depends on tbe cloud. Not sure about other implementations like Tesla's

Ah yes, Ford and Tesla, the champions of build quality.

Galaxy phone not good for space travel.

Snapdragon can't breathe fire.

> Snapdragon can't breathe fire.

When someone tells you to "touch grass" that includes eudicots as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antirrhinum

Google is the one claiming that calculating tensors is the motivation behind the chip.

If you're mocking that entire idea, then that also supports the claim that it's "on life support".

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