Google bets big on artificial intelligence to make a cloud push for enterprises

SAN FRANCISCO: Google is betting big on its dominance in machine learning and artificial intelligence to break into the cloud market, a message that was the underlying theme on the first day of the technology giant's cloud conference that began here on Wednesday. It also made a slew of announcements further strengthening its place as the leader in machine learning and artificial intelligence platforms. "We put $30 billion in the Google Cloud Platform," said Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet. He added that big data, or large data sets that are analysed to reveal patterns through machine learning and artificial intelligence, "is so powerful that nation states will fight over it". Google announced big names, such as HSBC, Colgate-Palmolive, the Home Depot, SAP, Disney, Verizon and Ebay as customers, most of who have large data sets to the tune of billions of records.