Google is playing a different AI game than everyone else, and Wall Street may be missing the point
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If the real story is Alphabet’s AI pull-through into Cloud rather than model leaderboard scores, the control point shifts to integrated infra plus services. Enterprise buyers should evaluate Google on end-to-end workload fit and data gravity, not just model benchmarks.
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