<p>➀ Google's DeepMind has published a research paper refuting criticisms of its AI chip design system, AlphaChip;</p><p>➁ The system, initially announced in 2020, has been used to design Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and has saved thousands of hours of human labor;</p><p>➂ Critics have质疑 the system's effectiveness, with one paper claiming it could not be replicated and another calling it 'false dawn';</p><p>➃ Google responded to the criticisms, highlighting the limitations of the critics' methods and defending the openness and transparency of AlphaChip.</p>