By Billy Perrigo September 5, 2024 6:59 AM EDT It’s hard to imagine what modern life would look like without Google. Its search business prints hundreds of billions of dollars in yearly revenue, and starting over two decades ago, Google began channeling some of that money toward AI research. Its industry-leading scientists were responsible for many of the breakthroughs that drove the field to its current inflection point. And yet the product that in late 2022 kick-started today’s AI boom, ChatGPT, came from a startup backed by Google’s major competitor, Microsoft. Suddenly Google was no longer the symbolic leader of the AI race, but instead playing catch-up. Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai , who joined the company in 2004 and was appointed to the top job in 2015, took that […]
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