Who uses Google TPUs for inference in production?
I am really puzzled by TPUs. I've been reading everywhere that TPUs are powerful and a great alternative to NVIDIA.I have been playing with TPUs for a couple of months now, and to be honest I don't understand how can people use them in production for inference:- almost no resources online showing how to run modern generative models like Mistral, Yi 34B, etc. on TPUs
- poor compatibility between JAX and Pytorch
- very hard to understand the memory consumption of the TPU chips (no nvidia-smi equiv...
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