The tech world's been very focused on one thing recently, artificial intelligence.

There's chat GPT, there's Dalee, there's mid-journey.

But one huge tech company has been on the sidelines.

Google.

I think to some people, it looks like Google was behind in making these really breakthrough

artificial intelligence advancements into new products, into actual things that people

could play with.

And despite all the work that had happened many years before, Google was sort of beat

to the punch.

That's our colleague, Miles Crouppa.

He says Google's been developing powerful AI for years, but that the company has continually

decided not to make it public.

Google has many reasons for holding back this kind of technology, but it's kind of an

interesting scenario to think about.

What if Google had been first to the market with this stuff?

And now Google is trying to catch up.

Welcome to the journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Kate Limebaugh, it's Friday, March 17th.

Coming up on the show, how Google fell behind in AI.

Google uses a lot of artificial intelligence.

It finds you faster routes through Google Maps, labels your pictures in Google Photos, and

finishes your sentences in Google Docs and Gmail.

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