Google TPU 8 vs Nvidia: 8t and 8i Specs Explained

TL;DR: AI is splitting into two economies: training and inference. Training is a handful of hyperscalers spending tens of billions on clusters that run for weeks. Inference is where every app, every agent, and every dollar of revenue actually lives. Google's TPU 8 is the first chip generation to treat that split as the default. It ships as two chips, an 8t for training and an 8i for inference. The 121 ExaFlops number is the headline. The split is the story. The economies that grow from it are th...