Tensor Processing Unit
PlatformGoogle (Alphabet)active
Google's family of custom AI accelerators for training and serving machine-learning models.
- May 18, 2016
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Products
| Name | Type | Category | Launched | Latest release | Status |
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| Ironwood TPU | Platform | — | Apr 2025 | Ironwood TPU reaches general availability | active |
| Trillium TPU | Platform | — | May 2024 | Trillium sixth-generation TPU announced | active |
| Cloud TPU v5p | Platform | — | Dec 2023 | Cloud TPU v5p announced | active |
| Cloud TPU v4 | Platform | — | May 2021 | Cloud TPU v4 announced | legacy |
| Cloud TPU v2 | Platform | — | May 2017 | Cloud TPU v2 announced | legacy |
Releases
Oct 23, 2025Google Cloud and Anthropic expand TPU partnershipPartnership
Google Cloud and Anthropic expand their infrastructure partnership, with Anthropic planning access to up to one million TPUs for Claude training and serving.
May 17, 2017Google declares an AI-first strategyEvent
At Google I/O, the company frames its strategic transition from mobile-first to AI-first products and computing.
May 18, 2016Google introduces its Tensor Processing UnitProduct launch
Google publicly reveals the TPU, a custom accelerator designed to speed machine-learning workloads in its data centers.