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AI is powering Google to a $2 trillion market cap

Picture: Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, talks throughout the inauguration of a brand-new center in France committed to the expert system (AI) sector, at the Google France head office in Paris, France, February 15, 2024. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes (Reuters)

Google moms and dad Alphabet might quickly reach a market capitalization of $2 trillion dollars– thanks to its development with generative expert system. The tech giant’s stock was the marketplace’s star entertainer on Thursday, as Alphabet Class A shares and Alphabet Class C shares each struck brand-new 52-week highs, getting 1.8% and 1.7%, respectively.

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Alphabet stock is up more than 15% up until now this year, and more than 51% over the last 12 months. The business’s market capitalization was sitting at $1.99 trillion on Thursday afternoon.

Previously today, Google revealed its newest cloud and expert system developments, consisting of a brand-new AI chip to take on semiconductor huge Nvidia and an Arm-based CPU to challenge Microsoft and Amazon.

The tech giant’s newest AI chip, the Cloud TPU v5p, was initially revealed in December, the very same day as its AI chatbot Gemini. The brand-new TPU, or tensor processing system, can train so-called big language designs practically 3 times faster than its predecessor, Google’s TPU v4, the business stated. Big language designs (LLMs) power AI chatbots like ChatGPT.

“Now in their 5th generation, these improvements [to Google’s TPUs] have actually assisted clients train and serve cutting edge language designs,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated at the business’s yearly Google Cloud Next conference on Tuesday in Las Vegas.

Google’s statement was the most recent salvo in Big Tech’s AI arms race.

Nvidia is the primary provider of the AI chips referred to as GPUs, or graphics processing systems. And Google moms and dad Alphabet is among Nvidia’s most significant clients, behind Microsoft and Facebook moms and dad Meta. All are significantly establishing their own AI hardware to be less reliant on Nvidia.

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