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Amin Vahdat
SVP & chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, Google
Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Amin Vahdat (SVP & chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, Google) talking, from an interview on Training Data published Oct 6, 2026.
What Amin Vahdat said
Goodput, not FLOPS, is how Google holds itself accountable
“if you have failure recovery, if you have whatever it is that's interrupting your work, That's part of the issue.”
Amin Vahdat8:48 Google split the TPU into 8i and 8t based on market size
“if we projected inference to be 2% or 5% of the market, even if that specialized chip is, let's say, 2x faster, it might not make sense, right?”
Amin Vahdat19:16 Long-horizon agents push CPU, storage and network demand up
“the demand for accelerated computers going up, but the demand for CPU and networking and storage, the traditional data center CPU, et cetera, is also going through the roof at the same time.”
Amin Vahdat36:07
The episode
Training DataGoogle's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI
Amin Vahdat · Chief Technologist for AI Infrastructure, Google
5:27of 1:04:27 · Oct 6
