According to Sundar Pichai, Google Cloud introduced the Ironwood TPU with a 10x compute boost and optimized for large-scale inference at Google Cloud Next, while also becoming the first to offer NVIDIA’s next-gen Blackwell GPUs to customers. These advancements provide trading firms and quantitative analysts with faster model training and lower latency for AI-driven trading strategies, enabling more efficient backtesting and real-time market analysis (source: @sundarpichai on Twitter, April 24, 2025).