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Google unveils Ironwood TPU for reasoning-model inference at exaflop scale

Google introduced its seventh-generation Ironwood TPU, scaling to 9,216 chips and 42.5 exaflops per pod for dense and mixture-of-experts reasoning-model inference, with customer availability planned later in 2025.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM51confidence 60/100

Why it moved the index

A hyperscaler announcing a large inference-compute step reduces future serving constraints for frontier reasoning systems. Competitive acceleration from planned availability is one supported inference, so confidence is capped at 60.

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  1. R1
    Toward 51 · confidence 60

    New announced frontier inference-compute generation with no durable event collision.

    12 Aug 2026
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  1. DoomBench assesses “Google unveils Ironwood TPU for reasoning-model inference at exaflop scale” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 51 and confidence 60 out of 100 in the competitive race category.

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