Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft

google cloud ceo thomas kurian says the company's ai chips and models give it a way to catch up to amazon and microsoft in the data centre business. google has been third in cloud market share for years, well behind both rivals. kurian is betting that custom-built ai hardware and its gemini models can close the gap. the pitch is that customers who want to run ai workloads will choose google's infrastructure over the competition's. no specific market share numbers or revenue figures were given in the source.