Alphabet In AI: How Google Went From A Search Engine To An $800B Global AI Powerhouse - CB Insights Research

Alphabet is disrupting healthcare, auto, government contracts, and more with AI. We look at how it got here, where it's headed, and what this means for incumbents. Google was relentless in its pursuit of artificial intelligence even before the current wave of AI commercialization took off. It may be hard to imagine a time when neural networks -- AI algorithms initially inspired by biological neural networks -- were having a dry spell. But researchers were bearish on its commercial scalability as recently as the early 2000s.