Tensor Processing Unit - Google's custom AI accelerator chips optimized specifically for training and running neural networks. Like having a specialist tool designed exclusively for AI workloads.
Google uses TPUs to train their massive language models like Gemini, achieving faster training times than traditional GPUs.
TPU is Google’s custom AI accelerator hardware. Other clouds offer comparable AI accelerators (typically NVIDIA GPUs), but TPU itself is primarily available on Google Cloud as Cloud TPU.