Google supercomputer, Nvidia GPUs break AI performance records

Google said it has built the worlds fastest machine learning (ML) training supercomputer that broke AI performance records in six out of eight industry-leading MLPerf benchmarks.

Using this supercomputer, as well as the latest Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chip, Google has set new performance records.

“We achieved these results with ML model implementations in TensorFlow, JAX and Lingvo. Four of the eight models were trained from scratch in under 30 seconds,” Naveen Kumar from Google AI said in a statement on Wednesday.

To put that in perspective, it took more than three weeks to train one of these models on the most advanced hardware accelerator available in 2015.