Source: Wall Street News
Hassabis also said that Google has more powerful computing power than rivals such as Microsoft.
The smoke of AI investment in the arms race has spread all over Silicon Valley. Every technology company is doing its best to seize the upper hand in this revolutionary technological transformation, and Google, which is slightly behind in this competition, is catching up.
According to media reports, Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's AI research division DeepMind, said at the TED conference held in Vancouver on Monday local time that over time, Google will spend more than 100 billion US dollars to develop artificial intelligence technology.
Hassabis did not reveal more details about the size of the investment, but said:
We're not going to talk about specific numbers, but I think over time, our investment will exceed that amount.
At the time of Hassabis's speech, Google's rivals were also frequently revealed about their new AI investment plans.
Among them, Microsoft plans to cooperate with OpenAI to build an AI supercomputer called “Stargate,” which is estimated to cost 100 billion US dollars, which is 100 times the cost of the current largest data center. Amazon is planning to “spoil” 150 billion US dollars for the construction and operation of global data centers within the next 15 years, sparing no effort to build a “cloud computing empire.”
The question is, how to win in the increasingly heated AI competition? Google believes that the key is infrastructure construction.
Hassabis said that Google has more powerful computing power than rivals such as Microsoft.
This is one of the reasons we partnered with Google in 2014 because we know that in order to achieve general artificial intelligence, we need a lot of computing power. The global interest generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT shows that the public is ready to accept artificial intelligence systems, even if they are still flawed and error-prone.
Google sees AI infrastructure as its own moat. At the recently concluded Google Cloud Next 2024 conference, Google CEO Pichay said bluntly:
We've long known that artificial intelligence will transform every industry and company, including ourselves. That's why we've been building artificial intelligence infrastructure for over a decade, including TPU that has now evolved to the fifth generation.
Analysts commented that in the past, Google's essential advantage was based on an open Internet and large-scale data processing capabilities, but in the current era of artificial intelligence, this essential advantage is reflected in its absolute leading position in infrastructure and computing scale. And through this Cloud Next conference, Google clearly demonstrated this, which can be said to have found a key “essential support” for itself in the fierce competition for artificial intelligence.
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