What are these "GPUs" really?

Fly.io is a platform that runs containerized apps with virtual machine isolation on its own hardware around the world, allowing users to safely run their code close to where their users are. The company is currently rolling out GPU support for running AI and ML workloads near users. GPUs were initially developed as 3D accelerator cards to offload rendering tasks from CPUs, but have since evolved into powerful AI/ML accelerators capable of performing massively parallel tasks such as summarization, translation, speech recognition, text generation, image classification, object detection, and more. Fly.io's GPUs are specifically designed for AI/ML workloads and do not have any hardware necessary for processing graphics or encoding video. Users can sign up for Fly.io and join the waitlist for GPU access to leverage these powerful tools in their applications.