Organizations are increasingly using LLM-based applications, with 78% in development or production.Google Cloud introduced the AI Hypercomputer with Ironwood, a TPU designed for inference.Updates to AI Hypercomputer's inference capabilities include GKE Inference Gateway and Quickstart.Google focuses on performance optimization with benchmarks like JetStream and MaxDiffusion.JetStream, an open-source inference engine, offers high throughput and low latency for LLMs on TPU.Pathways runtime enables multi-host inference and disaggregated serving for large models.Osmos leverages TPUs for cost-efficient inference at scale, achieving industry-leading performance.MaxDiffusion supports compute-heavy workloads like image generation, delivering high throughput on Trillium.A3 Ultra and A4 VMs show competitive performance in MLPerf Inference v5.0, powered by NVIDIA GPUs.AI Hypercomputer with hardware advancements and software innovations is driving AI breakthroughs in inference.