Google deploys new Axion CPUs and seventh-gen Ironwood TPU — training and inferencing pods beat Nvidia GB300 and shape ‘AI Hypercomputer’ model

Today, Google Cloud introduced new AI-oriented instances, powered by its own Axion CPUs and Ironwood TPUs. The new instances are aimed at both training and low-latency inference of large-scale AI models, the key feature of these new instances is efficient scaling of AI models, enabled by a very large scale-up world size of Google’s Ironwood-based systems.

Ironwood is Google’s 7^th Generation tensor processing unit (TPU), which delivers 4,614 FP8 TFLOPS…