Real Alpha

Full episode · 1 h 4 m

Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI

Training Data · Sonya Huang & Pat Grady with Amin Vahdat

The best minutes

  1. 5:27Goodput, not FLOPS, is how Google holds itself accountable5 min
  2. 18:12Google split the TPU into 8i and 8t based on market size4 min
  3. 34:14Long-horizon agents push CPU, storage and network demand up4 min

Published Oct 6, 2026.

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