Microsoft and Google have recently made big investments in two of the
most valuable companies in artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI, which
in Anthropic.
The companies’ financial support for AI has pushed an ongoing rivalry in to the public spotlight. Google’s struggle for dominance with Microsoft is increasingly at the forefront of discussions about AI’s future success.
Google has made enormous contributions to the field of AI development, including the invention of transformers – a particular form of machine learning, where an algorithm improves at tasks as it is “trained” on data – the advancement of techniques for automating the translation of languages and the
acquisition of AI company DeepMind.