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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: observation
6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company
“The only way that external companies—users, developers, model researchers—could use TPUs would be if Google had a cloud to deliver them.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- observation
- Recorded
- 6 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part III: The AI Company
Transcript context
…And they have the very most net income dollars to lose. So then there’s the chip side specifically of this. If Google didn’t have a cloud, it wouldn’t have a chip business. It would only have an internal chip business. The only way that external companies—users, developers, model researchers—could use TPUs would be if Google had a cloud to deliver them. Because there’s no way in hell that Amazon or Microsoft are going to put TPUs from Google in their clouds. We’ll see.…
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