@FinanceYF5: "I would rather go bankrupt than lose this game." This is what Google co-founder Larry Page said about the AI race. Alphabet's expected capital expenditure over the next 12 months. The chart shows it was almost flat from 2008 until recently, when it suddenly skyrocketed to $250 billion.
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Google co-founder Larry Page said he would rather go bankrupt than lose the AI race, while Alphabet's expected capital expenditure over the next 12 months has skyrocketed to $250 billion.
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“I’d rather go bankrupt than lose this match.” This is how Google co-founder Larry Page described the AI race.
Alphabet’s projected capital expenditure over the next 12 months, a chart showing data from 2008 to the present as essentially hugging the ground, has now surged to $250 billion. https://t.co/gxm3aCHM5u
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