Hacker News with Generative AI: Google Cloud

Trillium TPU Is GA (cloud.google.com)
The rise of large-scale AI models capable of processing diverse modalities like text and images presents a unique infrastructural challenge. These models require immense computational power and specialized hardware to efficiently handle training, fine-tuning, and inference. Over a decade ago, Google began developing custom AI accelerators, Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), to address the growing demands of AI workloads, paving the way for multimodal AI.

Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Google Cloud

178 points by gok 37 days ago | 80 comments

Veo and Imagen 3: Announcing new video and image generation models on Vertex AI (cloud.google.com)
Generative AI is leading to real business growth and transformation. Among enterprise companies with gen AI in production, 86% report an increase in revenue1, with an estimated 6% growth. That’s why Google is investing in its AI technology with new models like Veo, our most advanced video generation model, and Imagen 3, our highest quality image generation model.

Generative AI, Google Cloud, Video Generation, Image Generation

30 points by srameshc 45 days ago | 15 comments

Benchmarks of Google's Axion Arm-Based CPU (phoronix.com)
Earlier this year Google announced Axion as their first Arm-based CPU for the Google Cloud. Today already they are taking Axion to general availability with the new C4A instances. These new C4A instances are advertised as offering up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy efficiency than their current generation x86 instance types.

Google Cloud, Hardware, Benchmarks, CPU, Arm

49 points by mfiguiere 79 days ago | 12 comments

Leveraging Class E address space to mitigate IPv4 exhaustion issues in GKE (cloud.google.com)
As the number of applications and services hosted on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) continues to grow, so does the demand for private IPv4 addresses (RFC 1918). For many large organizations, the RFC1918 address space is becoming increasingly scarce, leading to IP address exhaustion challenges that impact their application scale. IPv6 solves this exact address exhaustion issue by providing a lot more addresses. However not all enterprises or applications are ready for IPv6 yet.

Networking, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, IP Addressing

28 points by l1n 86 days ago | 76 comments

It is hard to recommend Google Cloud (ashishb.net)
I strongly believe Google Cloud is a superior product to both AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Cloud Computing, Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure

243 points by todsacerdoti 118 days ago | 171 comments

Got an unexpected $85K bill from Google Cloud (ycombinator.com)
As a small startup, we’re facing a major billing issue with u/GoogleCloud. An unintended error in our Translation API integration caused our bill to skyrocket to over $85K over a short period—five times our expected usage.

Cloud Computing, Google Cloud, Billing Issues, Startups

16 points by jiahengz 121 days ago | 15 comments

TPU transformation: A look back at 10 years of our AI-specialized chips (cloud.google.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Google Cloud, Computer Architecture, Machine Learning

142 points by mariuz 167 days ago | 62 comments

Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for YC startups (techcrunch.com)

Google Cloud, Startups, AI, Nvidia GPUs, Cloud Computing

208 points by Astroboy007 169 days ago | 100 comments

Goodbye VPN by Google One, Hello VPN on Google Cloud (github.com/rajannpatel)

Google One, Google Cloud, VPN, Security, Cloud Services

10 points by RajanNPatel 209 days ago | 4 comments

Google Cloud error erases $135B pension fund (axios.com)