Why Google thinks other clouds are 'wrong' on machine learning

Google CEO Sundar Pichai may acknowledge that the future is multi-cloud, but that doesn't mean he thinks all clouds are equal. In a revealing comment during the company's Q2 earnings call, Pichai dropped this bombshell: "[T]here is a tremendous cost to your business of being on the wrong [cloud] architecture." In other words, Pichai believes going with anything but Google is something of a dead end. Now, if only he could convince the majority of enterprises that have elected to go with cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS), or leading contender Microsoft Azure. Which is of course what he spent the earnings call, as well as the company's Google Next conference, trying to do.