Sundar Pichai: preference

Transcript context

…Asking for a friend. Now, we've always had a compute budget, even in classic compute. I would say with ML, and we use both TPUs and GPUs, by the way, extensively. ML compute planning is... We are super thoughtful about headcount planning, too, but we have always had to plan that. ML compute, we've gone through phases where they've been easy, and then there have been phases where we've been constrained as a company. But now it is really acutely constrained. You spend a lot more time. I at least spend a dedicated hour a week thinking about that question at a pretty granular level. I will know by projects and by teams, the compute units they are using, or at least I have that information, and I'm looking at it and assessing it. In some ways, it's a really important thing to be doing right now, I feel. The scarce resource is compute in a lot of cases, and so you're ensuring that Google's precious compute resources are being spent on the most worthwhile—…

Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.