Google Announces 2nd-Gen AI Chip PYMNTS.com

Google just made a major move to expand its revenue beyond the realm of digital advertising. At the keynote address of this year's I/O developer conference, Google's CEO announced that the company will be selling AI computer chips, called Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), via Google Cloud service. Urs Hölzle, Google's veteran technical chief, told Bloomberg that the chip is "basically a supercomputer for machine learning. The field is rapidly evolving. For us, it's very important to advance machine learning for our own purposes and to be the best cloud." Machine learning is, in essence, a form of artificial intelligence that allows programs to change, adapt and (namely) learn from new data, without requiring additional programming effort and human intervention.