The team at Google which was engineering artificial intelligence chips has been shifted to the Google Cloud sector, according to a report by tech outlet The Information, citing a Google spokesperson.
The cloud sector is dominated by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Data from Statista estimated that in the third quarter of 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) held a 34% market share. Microsoft’s Azure held 21% while Google Cloud captured 11%.
While Google has released the Bard chatbot, Microsoft has invested heavily in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Both Big Tech companies are working to bring chatbots to their search engines, and also announced a series of AI-powered products for users.
Google’s shifting of the AI chip engineering team could be a sign of the company focusing on cloud offerings which are powered by AI.
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The report comes days after CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company was merging two of its groups - the Brain team from Google Research and the DeepMind - in order to create the AI-focused Google DeepMind.
Mr. Pichai also observed that Google had been an “AI-first company” since 2016.
