> Also, if the new version is anything like its predecessor, it will also become accessible to third-party developers through Google's public cloud service.<p>I wish this could be bought for home use. Cloud based machine learning is great (I mean that, I love it) but sometimes a one time hardware purchase is easier to swallow than a hourly rate.
It's only an alternative by the time you can buy them. Until then owning GPU hardware is a lot cheaper than renting it if you use it for a substantial fraction of the time.