# TPU: what I've logged

> TPU comes up in 2 posts of my AI log, from October 2025 to October 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The sources come from Hugging Face and Anthropic, filed under agents and coding, science and robotics.

## Items

1. **TorchTPU** (Hugging Face, 20 Oct 2026): A native PyTorch backend that treats TPU as a normal device, so Transformers and Diffusers run with device_map="tpu" or pipe.to("tpu"). [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-torchtpu) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-20-voxtral-3-eleven-realtime-torchtpu-claude-binders#item-3)
2. **Expanding our use of Google Cloud TPUs** (Anthropic, 20 Oct 2025): Anthropic plans to use up to a million TPUs, with well over a gigawatt of capacity coming online in 2026. [Primary source](https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanding-our-use-of-google-cloud-tpus-and-services) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-10-20-week-in-ai#item-5)

## Posts

- 2026-10-20 [Voxtral 3, Eleven Realtime, TorchTPU, Claude's toxin binders](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-20-voxtral-3-eleven-realtime-torchtpu-claude-binders)
- 2025-10-20 [Claude Code on the web, DeepSeek-OCR, Anthropic's TPU deal](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-10-20-week-in-ai)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/tpu