Google Cloud is launching GPU-backed VM instances early in 2017

During a media briefing at a Google office in San Francisco today, Google announced that it will launch virtual machine (VM) instances that are backed by graphics processing units (GPUs) early in 2017 through its Google Cloud Platform public cloud.
Competitors Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM SoftLayer, and Microsoft Azure have launched GPU-backed instances in the past. Google is looking to stand out by virtue of its per-minute billing, rather than per-hour, and its variety of GPUs available: the