November 13, 2024: GKE Boosts Capacity for Trillion-Parameter AI Models - Google Cloud has enhanced its Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to support growing AI models, increasing capacity to 65,000-node clusters from 15,000. This expansion caters to models with up to 2 trillion parameters, vital for handling complex AI workloads. The upgrade includes transitioning from etcd to Spanner for better scalability and efficiency, accommodating 250,000 tensor processing units. As AI demand surges, companies like Anthropic are leveraging GKEs new capabilities, driving a 900% increase in TPU and GPU usage. With this upgrade, GKE aims to bolster AI innovation and performance.
