{"id":990160,"date":"2026-02-06T08:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990160"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:26:13","slug":"google-goes-from-laggard-to-leader-as-it-pulls-ahead-of-openai-with-stellar-ai-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/google-goes-from-laggard-to-leader-as-it-pulls-ahead-of-openai-with-stellar-ai-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Google goes from laggard to leader as it pulls ahead of OpenAI with stellar AI growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet is taking on OpenAI with a gusto that underscores Wall Street&#8217;s perception that \u2060the Google parent is the leader in AI, a turn of events from a year ago when investors thought it was badly lagging behind rivals and punished its stock. <\/p>\n<p>That showed in the confident tone executives struck on the post-earnings call, the first since Alphabet released the Gemini 3 model. <\/p>\n<p>But its shares fell 3% on Wednesday after the company said it would spend up to $185 billion this year, deepening investor scrutiny as \u200cthe expenditure potentially more \u200cthan doubles from 2025 and eclipses rivals Microsoft, Meta and Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet is taking on OpenAI with a gusto that underscores Wall Street&#8217;s perception that \u2060the Google parent is the leader in AI, a turn of events from a year ago when investors thought it was badly lagging behind rivals and punished its stock. That showed in the confident tone executives struck on the post-earnings call, the first since Alphabet released the Gemini 3 model. But its shares fell 3% on Wednesday after the company said it would spend up to $185 billion this year, deepening investor scrutiny as \u200cthe expenditure potentially more \u200cthan doubles from 2025 and eclipses rivals Microsoft, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}