Google’s Cloud CEO hits back at A.I. competitors and says it’s the ‘first minute of a new game’ after ChatGPT disruption in newly leaked audio
ChatGPT’s launch a few months back triggered an artificial intelligence revolution arms race among Big Tech companies. Microsoft Has invested billions into Open A.IChatGPT was developed by. The company intends to integrate the technology in its Bing search engine. And the chatbot’s debut forced GoogleA.I. research has been ongoing at. , which has been researching A.I. for many years, to jump in the fray and rush to market its own A.I. product, Bard.
Google is now playing defense after decades of search dominance. The company was curious. its A.I. teams last month to “prioritize working on a response to ChatGPT.” And the urgency for Google to up its game made some staffers lash out about the “rushed” and “botched” announcement of its own chatbot now in beta testing.
New audio leaks give us a glimpse at the pressure Google is facing. obtained by Insider reveals the company’s Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian hitting back at critics in a company town hall last month, and saying that the battle for A.I. This was only the beginning of dominance.
“There are other companies taking shots at us saying that we are late to market. We’ve missed A.I. boat,” Kurian said in the recording. “I would tell you this is the very first minute of a new game, and the game is never done in the first minute.”
Kurian further called on employees to work together, and hyped up the workers laboring over the company’s A.I. plans.
“We are committed as an organization to providing the best capability in these markets, and I can promise you that our engineers are going to deliver amazing technology in A.I. to our customers,” Kurian said.
Google did not immediately reply Fortune’s request for comment.
The A.I. is placing intense pressure on the company and placing high stakes. race. Bing, although it controls only a fraction of search market share, stands to benefit from an A.I. that is successful. Google, on the other hand, has nothing to lose.
“We believe that Microsoft is aiming not only to lower Google’s search margins, but also to dissuade Alphabet from running Google Cloud and other businesses at a loss,” an ARK Invest analyst wrote in a note This month, earlier.
While OpenAI is considered a small company that is more able to take risks—like releasing a chatbot to the internet at large—Google must weigh concerns about its reputation and how problematic A.I. OpenAI could suffer financial loss if it is exposed to the public.
Its new chatbot, Bard, is currently only available to a limited group of “trusted testers.” And even though Google did take a leap with Bard, the chatbot infamously gave incorrect answers during a videotaped demo announcing the product earlier this month, resulting in a $100 billion Market value loss by the California-based tech company.
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