People - Google has the strongest team of AI experts in the industry by a wide margin. At NIPS this year Google had more papers excepted than anyone else. The big AI breakthroughs come from Google. They solved Go a decade earlier than anyone thought possible. Would put FB #2 with AI experts but a very distant #2.

Google miles ahead with SDC.

Plus Google is able to attract the top talent better than anyone else.

https://unsupervisedmethods.com/nips-accepted-papers-stats-2....

Applications - Search, Photos, Speech, AlphaZero, Self Driving Cars, Google now has over 4k NN in production. Nobody else even in the ball park. Hand down the leader in applications.

Infrastructure - Tensor Flow now has 98k stars on GitHub. It is the canonical AI framework in the industry and really nothing else close. CNTK is #2 with 14k stars. But Google ads about 7x per days stars.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow

Then there is Google cloud infrastructure and their other engineering talents which are well ahead of anyone.

I can go on but this is so incredibly silly. There is little question that Google is leading at every layer of the AI stack by a wide margin.

This is so silly I suspect something else going on here. We do not seem to be discussing things based on reality.

Is this about Damore?

BTW, Nvidia can only spin up what they know about. Google does not share everything but luckily they do a lot for Nvidia.

In 2018 you just have to run the infrastructure to be long term viable in the chip game.

What we have here is same work and half the cost. Which makes sense as Google does all the layers of the stack and is just has a fundmental advantage to better optimize.

AI it is even more important.