Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian just supported what Nvidia said after Google TPU news wiped billions from its market value

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has publicly pushed back against the narrative of a “chip war”, wherein custom AI chips like Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are seen as a threat to Nvidia’s dominance. Kurian’s comments have come about a month after a turbulent week where news of Facebook-parent company partnering with Google to train its Llama AI models on search giant’s in-house silicon wiped billions from Nvidia’s market value.

Google-Nvidia not a rivalry: Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian