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Alphabet races toward $4 trillion valuation as AI-fueled gains accelerate
Nov 24 (Reuters) - Alphabet closed in on a $4 trillion valuation on Monday, set to become only the fourth company to enter the exclusive club, as the Google parent rides an artificial intelligence-driven rally. Shares of the company (GOOGL.O), opens new tab rose more than 5% to hit a record high
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How Google put together the pieces for its AI comeback
When ChatGPT launched in 2022, Google was caught flatfooted, but the launch of Gemini 3 and the Ironwood AI chip this month has experts raving about Alphabet's AI comeback. Google kicked off November by unveiling Ironwood, the seventh generation of its tensor processing units, or TPUs, that the
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Is Google The New Leader of the AI Race?
Google's parent company, Alphabet, is very close to becoming the fourth company to join the $4 trillion market cap club (current members to have crossed that threshold are Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia). That's thanks to a week of arguably great news for its AI efforts. Fellow tech giant and
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Google, the sleeping giant in global AI race, now 'fully awake' | Fortune
The internet giant has released new AI software and struck deals, such as a chip tie-up with Anthropic PBC, that have reassured investors the company won't easily lose to ChatGPT creator OpenAI and other rivals. Google's newest multi-purpose model, Gemini 3, won immediate praise for its
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Google parent Alphabet races toward $4 trillion market cap
It's a good day to be an Google shareholder. Even amid this week's sharp tech rally, the stock is emerging as a Wall Street darling. As of Tuesday morning, shares of the tech giant are exploding higher, and the reason reaches far beyond the company's best-known business lines -- whether search,
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Google Went After OpenAI But Ended up Rattling NVIDIA | AIM
Two years ago, no one could have imagined that Google would suddenly leap ahead of OpenAI in the AI race. The search giant has come a long way since Bard's rocky debut in 2023. In its inaugural demo, the chatbot incorrectly stated that the James Webb Space Telescope had taken the first-ever image
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Alphabet heads for $4trn valuation on reports Meta to buy Google AI chips
Alphabet climbed close to a $4trn valuation yesterday as markets were enthusiastic about reports of a potential deal with Meta for Google's TPU AI chips. Nvidia and OpenAI, and their various circular investments, have grabbed most of the AI headlines in recent months, but analysts think Google may
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ChatGPT is 3 and Google just crashed the party
Three years after losing ground to ChatGPT, Google has roared back with Gemini 3, soaring chip demand and a trillion-dollar valuation surge -- challenging the notion that OpenAI still dominates the AI future. Long before ChatGPT became a household name, a small group inside Google Search pitched a
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Gemini 3 Shook OpenAI To Its Core : Pushing OpenAI to Rethink Its Path
What happens when the seemingly unstoppable force of innovation meets an equally unyielding competitor? The release of Gemini 3, Google's latest AI breakthrough, has sent shockwaves through the tech world, leaving even industry giants like OpenAI scrambling to recalibrate. Touted as one of the most
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Google, the sleeping giant in global AI race, now 'fully awake'
Since the launch of ChatGPT three years ago, analysts and technologists -- even a Google engineer and the company's former chief executive -- have declared Google behind in the high-stakes race to develop artificial intelligence. Not anymore. The internet giant has released new AI software and
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Alphabet races toward $4 trillion valuation as AI-fueled gains accelerate - The Economic Times
Shares of the company rose more than 5% to hit a record high of $315.9, giving it a market capitalisation of $3.82 trillion. The stock has climbed nearly 70% so far this year, far outperforming AI rivals Microsoft and Amazon.Alphabet closed in on a $4 trillion valuation on Monday, set to become
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Alphabet approaches a historic $4 trillion market cap milestone as its AI comeback gains momentum. The launch of Gemini 3 and strategic chip partnerships signal Google's resurgence in the competitive AI landscape.
Alphabet is racing toward a $4 trillion market valuation, positioning itself to become only the fourth company in history to reach this exclusive milestone.
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Shares surged more than 5% on Monday to hit a record high of $315.9, giving the Google parent company a market capitalization of $3.82 trillion. The stock has climbed nearly 70% this year, significantly outperforming AI rivals Microsoft and Amazon.
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This remarkable surge represents a striking reversal in sentiment toward Alphabet after investors initially feared the company had lost its AI edge to OpenAI following ChatGPT's 2022 launch.
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The momentum has been further bolstered by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway revealing a $4.3 billion stake in Alphabet as of the third quarter, marking the investment firm's first-ever position in the tech giant.2

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Google's latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3, has generated significant enthusiasm across the tech industry.
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The new model reportedly requires "less prompting" and provides smarter answers than its predecessors, winning immediate praise for its capabilities in reasoning, coding, and niche tasks that have historically challenged AI chatbots.
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff captured the excitement surrounding Gemini 3 with a Sunday post on X, stating that despite using OpenAI's ChatGPT daily for three years, he wasn't going back after just two hours with Google's new model.
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"The leap is insane," Benioff wrote, describing everything as "sharper and faster" and noting that "it feels like the world just changed, again."According to AI benchmarking firm LMArena's co-founder and CTO Wei-Lin Chiang, the release of Gemini 3 represents "more than a leaderboard shuffle," suggesting a fundamental shift in the competitive landscape.
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Google's custom tensor processing units (TPUs) are emerging as a viable alternative to Nvidia's dominant graphics processing units.
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While GPUs are considered versatile like Swiss Army knives, Google's TPUs are specialized and more efficient for specific AI workloads as application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).A potentially game-changing development emerged with reports that Meta Platforms is considering supplying some of its data centers with Google chips in a deal potentially worth billions of dollars starting in 2027.
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Meta could also rent chips from Google Cloud as early as next year, representing a significant addition to Google's customer list that already includes AI companies like Anthropic.Google has also announced Ironwood, the seventh generation of its tensor processing units, which the company claims allows customers to "run and scale the largest, most data-intensive models in existence."
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AI startup Anthropic has already committed to using as many as 1 million Google TPUs in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars.4
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Google's competitive edge stems from its comprehensive approach to AI development, controlling what industry experts call the "full stack" in computing.
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The company produces AI applications like its popular Nano Banana image generator, software models, cloud computing architecture, and the underlying chips. This vertical integration provides Google with greater control over technical direction and reduces reliance on external suppliers, unlike competitors such as OpenAI.The company also possesses a significant data advantage through its search index, Android phones, and YouTube platform—data that Google often keeps proprietary for model training.
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This combination of resources, infrastructure, and data positions Google uniquely in the competitive AI landscape, with analysts describing it as "a sleeping giant that is now fully awake."Summarized by
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