I am not sure what context Jensen said that. But midjourney uses tpu. Apple uses tpu. They are no other frontier labs that use it, but Google + Anthropic is 2 out of 3 frontier lab so.....
You could reasonably say that "A majority of frontier labs uses TPU to train and serve their model."
Mayhaps! But I think as far as google, anthropic[1] and apple[2] goes, they do use the tpus for training. Ofc v4 and v5 (older generations of tpus) were more specialized for search related embedding workloads and i could see people not using them for training.
[1]: We train and run Claude on a range of AI hardware—AWS Trainium, Google TPUs - April 6th, Anthropic on Google and Broadcom partnership
[2]: "[Apple foundation model]... builds on top of JAX and XLA, and allows us to train the models with high efficiency and scalability on various training hardware and cloud platforms, including TPUs and both cloud and on-premise GPUs" - Apple in 2024
He's been saying whatever is good for Nvidia for years now without any regard for truth or reason. He's one of the least trustworthy voices in the space.
Jensen hallucinates more than any llm, he just speaks without thinking all that much about what he says and he generalizes a lot. Trying to hold him accountable to imprecisions and gross simplifications is just going to frustrate whoever tries without changing one bit of his behavior.
This is the same guy who said OpenClaw was the most important software release ever. Statements like this make me question how technically competent these tech CEOs are
They're at the frontier of last year. They compete with Opus 4.5. They don't yet compete with current frontier models.
They'll presumably catch up, there is no monopoly on talent held by the US. And, that's more true than ever now that the US is actively hostile to immigrants. Scientists who might have come to the US three years ago have little reason to do so now.
Since Gemini 3.1 Pro is considered to be at frontier and GLM 5.1 does better than it in coding benchmarks it would be fair to say GLM 5.1 is a frontier model.
Nit: scientists have the same reasons to do so now, the same as ever. They just have additional reasons to not do so.
But even that distinction is only temporary, since we're determined to piss away any remaining research lead that draws people in.
Hopefully the next administration will work at actively reversing the damage, with incentives beyond just "we pinky-promise not to haul you at gunpoint to a concrete detention center and then deport you to Yemen".
> Hopefully the next administration will work at actively reversing the damage, with incentives beyond just "we pinky-promise not to haul you at gunpoint to a concrete detention center and then deport you to Yemen".
Won't be enough to undo the damage. The US would have to do a full about face, prosecute crimes of the current administration and enact serious core reforms to make it impossible for things to drastically change again in 4 years. Also known as, never going to happen because even the current opposition party doesn't actually want structural change. The world has seen how bad the US can get from a single election, and that isn't changing any time soon.
It's kind of hard to say this unless you go out of your way - the scaffolding for interacting with the raw model is a lot better now for many tasks. Is it that 4.7 is so much better than 4.5 or claude 1.119 is so much tuned to squeeze utility out of the LLM despite the hallucinations and lack of self awareness etc. Certainly the current products are great, but I think it's hard to separate the two things, the raw model and the agent workflow constraining the model towards utility.
