Sergey Brin explain how Jeff Dean first brought the idae of TPUs in Google.
Jeff saw even 3 minutes of voice use of Google's users would double CPU demand and so he pushed a custom chip.
Larry and Sergey backed it, much before AI mattered.
Here, Jeff Dean (Google's chief scientist) explains here how the idea behind TPUs was born at Google. In the early 2010s, he noticed that new speech recognition...