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 a Google-designed AI accelerator. GCP offers it as Cloud TPU. Other clouds don’t offer Google TPUs directly; they provide alternative accelerators (primarily NVIDIA GPUs) for similar ML training/inference workloads.