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This Week in Startups · 2025-05-01 · 28 min · 5,290 words

What's Next for AI Infrastructure with Amin Vahdat | AI Basics with Google Cloud

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Welcome back to another episode of AI Basics brought to you in partnership with our friends at Google Cloud. Google Cloud just published a fantastic report. It's called The Future of AI Perspectives for Startups. It features insights from 23 leading AI experts, and today on the program, we're delighted to have Amin Vadat. He's VP and GM of machine learning and cloud AI over at Google Cloud.

Amin Fedot has worked on scaling the internet for decades. And we're going to talk today about TPUs, GPUs, just how the infrastructure is scaling Amin, but I wanted to do it from the application layer backwards. Last night I had my high fidelity headphones on. I was listening to some groovy music and I was like, tell me more artists like Bob Dylan and Mark Knoffler, give me an analysis by decade. And I realized I had sent Google Gemini's deep research to do.

essentially what would have been like a PhD, you know, thesis. Yes. And it returned it. And I would have never known about this music. My God, the joy that that gave me finding new artists and this is a silly example, but when I clicked on like show your work and I watched it work, I

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