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AcquiredEN · 236 min

Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio)

Ben GilbertDavid Rosenthal

Google combines Gemini, an estimated 2–3 million TPUs, a $50 billion-plus cloud business, global consumer distribution, and a search monopoly funding roughly $370 billion of annual revenue and $140 billion of earnings—the only end-to-end AI stack the hosts can identify.That advantage could make Google the lowest-cost producer of tokens, but the central risk remains whether AI can monetize without cannibalizing search’s economics and roughly 90% share, with Waymo offering a precedent for patience while timelines remain uncertain.