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AI & Engineering Academics›🌲 AI Forest›Lessons›AI Infrastructure - GPUs, TPUs, and the Cloud Battle
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AI Forest • Advanced⏱️ 18 min read

AI Infrastructure - GPUs, TPUs, and the Cloud Battle

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Understand the hardware and cloud infrastructure powering modern AI: GPU architectures, cloud platform comparisons, custom silicon, and inference optimisation.

Programme
AI Forest
Level
Advanced
Reading time
18 min read

Learning objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will understand:

  • ✓Why GPUs Beat CPUs for AI
  • ✓NVIDIA's Dominance
  • ✓Google TPUs
  • ✓AMD and the Competition
  • ✓Cloud Providers Comparison

Lesson outline

  1. Why GPUs Beat CPUs for AI
  2. NVIDIA's Dominance
  3. The GPU Lineup
  4. Google TPUs
  5. AMD and the Competition
  6. Cloud Providers Comparison
  7. The GPU Shortage and Geopolitics
  8. Custom Silicon Startups
  9. Inference Optimisation
  10. The Total Cost of AI Infrastructure
  11. 📚 Further Reading

Introductory preview

Behind every AI breakthrough is an enormous infrastructure story. Training a frontier model can cost hundreds of millions in compute, data, energy, and engineering. Understanding the hardware, cloud platforms, and optimisation techniques that power modern AI is essential for anyone building at scale.

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