(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, qualifier:machine learning) Initialism of Tensor Processing Unit, a circuit optimized for neural network machine learning.
However, Anthropic also uses Google's custom AI accelerator chip—a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called Trillium. 2025 July 12, “Amazon weighs further investment in Anthropic to gain edge on AI rivals”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:
The GPU and TPU computing resources were used to investigate the influence of hardware-supported quantization on performance of the DNNs. 2019, “Scaling Analysis of Specialized Tensor Processing Architectures for Deep Learning Models”, in Witold Pedrycz, Shyi-Ming Chen, editors, Deep Learning: Concepts and Architectures, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 73: