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Investing.com-- Elon Musk said on Wednesday that Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google holds the largest likelihood of leading the artificial intelligence industry for now, citing the company’s massive computing capacity.
Musk also said that major AI companies, including his xAI, will “continue to prosper” for the foreseeable future.
“Outside of real-world AI, Google has the biggest compute (and data) advantage for now, so currently has the highest probability of being the leader,” Musk said in an X post, adding that the trend may change in a few years.
Musk’s comments come amid rapidly growing competition among major U.S. AI developers, as they race to outdo each others’ models and acquire more data center capacity, while also drawing in more users.
Musk’s xAI recently released Grok 4, the most advanced version of its flagship AI model. This came as OpenAI released its most advanced model, GPT-5, in August.
Both companies offered the models for free to the public.
Google was also seen preparing more updates for its Gemini AI chatbot.
Data from AI data firm Artificial Analysis shows that GPT-5’s top version is regarded as the most intelligent AI model, followed by Grok 4.
Gemini and its variants are the best regarded in terms of output speed and price per token.
Google said on Wednesday it will spend an additional $9 billion in Oklahoma to build more AI infrastructure over the next two years. The company, along with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), and Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), is among Wall Street’s so-called “AI Hyperscalers”-- a group of companies spending hundreds of billions on acquiring more data center capacity.