TPU Mythbusting: vendor lock-in

Tensor Processing Units are a technology developed and owned by Google. While you can find GPUs in every cloud provider offer, the TPUs are currently only available through Google Cloud Platform . Situation when you invest in a technology or a service that is not available anywhere else is called vendor lock-in — it's something the sales people love, while customers try to avoid it. What does this look like for TPUs? Let's see. Myth 5: TPUs are available only through Google Cloud Platform As of