Google unveils two new TPUs designed for the "agentic era"
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Google unveiled two new custom Tensor processing units (TPUs) designed for faster AI model training and inference.
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Google has unveiled two new custom Tensor processing units (TPUs) designed for the "agentic era" of AI. The company, which bases most of its cloud AI infrastructure on TPUs, has moved to the eighth-generation version after announcing the seventh-gen Ironwood TPU in 2025. These new TPUs come in two types: the TPU8t for training and the TPU 8i for inference. The TPU 8t was specifically designed to reduce the training time for frontier AI models from months to weeks. This development provides Google and its customers with a faster and more efficient AI platform.
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