AI glossary / Industry talk
TPU
Tensor processing unit. Google's own AI chip, an alternative to Nvidia's GPUs.
More words in Industry talk
- Vendor lock-inBecoming so dependent on one company's AI that switching to another would be painful and expensive.
- AI bubbleThe worry that far more money is being poured into AI than it can earn back, and that valuations could fall sharply, as with the dot-com crash.
- AI PCA marketing term for a laptop or desktop with a chip built to run AI features on the device itself.
- AI winterA period when excitement and funding for AI dry up after over-promising. It has happened twice before, in the 1970s and late 1980s.
- AI wrapperA product that is mostly a nice interface on top of someone else's AI model.