Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs

Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs

Google Cloud customers spinning up new Tensor Processing Unit VMs for AI workloads will notice something different beginning today, as Canonical has finally released certified Ubuntu images for TPU instances going all the way back to 2023’s v5e. Canonical and Google announced the release of certified Ubuntu images for TPU VMs in a press release penned by Canonical’s public cloud alliance director Hugo Huang today. Huang noted in the statement th…

Optimized Ubuntu images come to Google Cloud TPU virtual machines

The focus of AI is moving from training massive models to powering real-time interactions. Agentic workflows need seamless coordination between general-purpose compute and machine learning acceleration. Google Cloud and Canonical are working together to make it easier for organizations to adopt advanced AI infrastructure with the launch of certified Ubuntu images for Google’s Cloud TPU virtual machines. With Ubuntu preinstalled, Cloud TPU VMs of…

Canonical and Google simplify AI workloads on TPUs

Canonical and Google Cloud have announced the availability of certified Ubuntu images for Cloud TPU Virtual Machines.