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Google unveils TorchTPU in a push to break Nvidia’s stranglehold on AI compute

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Google LLC is striving to pry open Nvidia Corp.’s grip on the artificial intelligence computing industry with the launch of a specialized version of the open-source PyTorch framework, called…

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