Google is playing a different AI game than everyone else, and Wall Street may be missing the point

Reported by MarketWatch · Published 17 Sep 2026, 2:57 AM MYT (1 hr ago)

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Investors have been fixated on the relative performance of Alphabet’s AI models when they should instead be cheering the company’s cloud potential, an analyst says.

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Google is playing a different AI game than everyone else, and Wall Street may be missing the point

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