New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said the company is giving up potential short-term revenue from its Cloud business to ensure its researchers have enough computing power to develop advanced artificial intelligence models.

The decision highlights the growing pressure on technology companies to balance commercial demand with the resources needed to compete in the AI race.

Speaking to Alex Kantrowitz on the Big Technology Podcast, Pichai explained that Google was making deliberate choices about how to distribute its limited computing resources. Rather than directing all available capacity towards paying Cloud customers, the company is reserving some of it for its AI research teams.

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