TechnicalAI glossary
TPU
“Tensor Processing Unit”: the chip Google designs specifically for AI, its in-house alternative to Nvidia’s GPUs. It lets the company train and run its models at a far lower cost, an economic advantage its rivals can hardly replicate.
In other words
A professional pizza oven versus a kitchen oven: it can only do one thing, but faster and for less money.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- Gemini 3.5 Flash versus GPT-5.5, Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 4.6: the comparison that changes everything
Gemini 3.5 Flash beats its bigger sibling 3.1 Pro on coding, crushes MCP Atlas, and costs 40% less. GPT-5.5 keeps the edge on pure reasoning. Claude Opus 4.7 remains king on SWE-Bench. And Gemini 3.5 Pro arrives in June. Here is the full picture of the model wars in May 2026.
- Google I/O 2026: all the announcements decoded
Google's annual jamboree took place on 19 and 20 May 2026 at the Shoreline Amphitheater. More than two hours of keynote, dozens of announcements, and one clear message: Google wants to take back the AI narrative from OpenAI and Anthropic. Here is what genuinely deserves your attention in everything that was presented.