For MLPerf 0.7, it's true that Google's software isn't available to the public yet. That's because they're in the middle of transitioning to Jax (and by extension, Pytorch). Once that transition is complete, and available to the public, you'll probably be learning TPU programming one way or another, since there's no other practical way to e.g. train a GAN on millions of photos.
You'd think people would be happy that there are realistic alternatives to nVidia's monopoly for AI training, rather than rushing to defend them...