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So the Edge TPU has been out for a while now, can anyone point out a large enterprise customer that is using this for real for something new that we couldn’t do before? Or is the “edge” just made up by salespeople. Like there needs to be super low latency requirements before someone decides they can’t use an internet api right?
Not an actual existing product, but imagine something like a fish trap that only closes when a certain species of fish goes in. Not everything can be readily hooked up to the internet. And the cell bandwidth of constant upload video stream isn't readily affordable even in things like cars.
Visual inspection for assembly lines is a pretty classic example.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/a...