This week on StrictlyVC Obtain, iinfoai Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos is joined by Francis deSouza, the famend entrepreneur, operator, and, since January, COO of Google Cloud. They focus on his objectives for Google Cloud and the way the corporate maintains its aggressive place by specializing in startups whereas giants like AWS and Oracle snap up main offers with main AI corporations — specifically, OpenAI and Anthropic.
The dialog additionally covers the tangled internet of relationships within the AI ecosystem, the place corporations like Google Cloud present infrastructure companies whereas their mum or dad corporations compete fiercely in generative AI, whilst those self same mother and father maintain funding stakes of their supposed rivals. In addition they focus on how Google Cloud approaches the GPU scarcity as a part of its technique to draw prospects — and hold them coming again for extra.
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