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GOOGLEarnings2025-02-04
Pichai describes how the balance of AI computing spending has shifted over the past three years.
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Sundar Pichai · Alphabet Investor Relations · Alphabet 2024 Q4 Earnings Call
“if you look at the trajectory over the past three years, the proportion of the spend towards inference compared to training has been increasing, which is good, because obviously inference is to support businesses with good ROIC. And so I think that trend is good. I think the reasoning models, if anything, accelerates that trend”
Key terms
- inference
- — Running an already-built AI model to answer a user's request.
- reasoning models
- — AI models that spend extra computing time working through a problem step by step before answering.
- ROIC
- — Return on invested capital: a measure of how much profit a company earns from the money it puts to work.
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