Sundar Pichai, CEO, has said the spend is "driven overwhelmingly by investment in our technical infrastructure", with the biggest cost being servers, followed by data centers.
"It generates superhuman or comparable chip layouts in hours, rather than taking weeks or months of human effort."
"Dominant companies, as any other companies, are of course free to innovate in all fields, but in doing so, they should compete on the merits."
"We need to reduce moving parts," VP says.
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