Google's Porat on the US-China AI Race

Alphabet and Google President and Chief Investment Officer Ruth Porat said the US is one year-plus ahead of China in AI models, but cautioned this lead is not to be taken for granted. Porat said working with the Trump administration on a bold and responsible regulatory framework will play a critical role in the AI race in a conversation with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker at Bloomberg House in Davos.
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[robertwang]

Well if you look back in the last 30 years, the Chinese did not invent many things like EVs, drones, robodogs, high speed trains, subways, mobiles, many electronics, GPS, 6G, stealth, hypersonic ICBMs, etc. But they have taken it to the next level and the adoption is vast due to their manufacturing might, tooling engineering, mass production expertise etc.
They are bigger than the next 8 combined for a reason. They adopt, refine, improve, bring to mkt way faster than anyone else. Just look at their EV development time is less than 1/2 of Western automakers and the software in their EVs is way superior than ICE automakers.
That tells you a lot.

[LeeWoods]

Really impressed with Ruth's answers. Often you catch these videos of really high profile executives who do not seem very knowledgeable of their own products; I say this as someone that follows a lot of Google Blogs and all the news coming out of Google.

I'm also happy that during her time as CFO she did not kill the Pixel phone program, I used Fine phones since the Galaxy Nexus.

The one product she could have given a little more time is Google Stadia. The technology was great, I think what hurt them with the hardcore gamers was the pricing model.

[cacogenicist]

Not impressed with the guy asking questions. He seems to be way out of his depth. Just some random business schmuck without any technical interest.

And an actual conversation about the China-US AI race would have been a lot more interesting -- which probably would have been best with an engineer and not a CIO.

[sagittariusann]

Just one year-plus ahead? I thought she was going to say the US was 10 years ahead

[sneakymove]

China's DeepSeek R1 is on par with 01 now, she clearly not informed.

[ar-futurist]

Marc Porat from General Magic is my hero!

[dfv]

Hasn't she heard of DeepSeek? China is way ahead in models.

[rwgamer]

Those boots don't match what's upstairs.

[troophq]

As an IT professional for 30+ years I have real concerns around the lack of controls governments are placing around the development and use of AI. This needs to be a concerted effort at a whole of country level the benefits and negatives noted and investigated in depth and the appropriate safety measure put in place.

[_Safety_Third_]

Look at the ridiculous boots on this overpaid goober 🤣

[KsazDFW]

The interviewer seems is so obviously fishing for some sort of condemnation of Musk from Ruth... and she’s not falling for it. Typical media.

[zdlily]

바둑의 승부는 반드시 바둑판 위에서 결정될 필요는 없고, 마치 비행기가 활주로 위에서만 착륙할 필요가 없는 것과 같습니다.

[briancase]

Look. You could fix healthcare way easier than by deploying AI. Just outlaw for-profit healthcare. But that will never happen or be proposed at Davos, let's face it. But, it infuriates me when these rich people look at healthcare and act perplexed like "wow, it's so hard and so expensive." It doesn't need to be.

[Lululemon]

She seems like a good representation of Google

[KsazDFW]

The interviewer seems to be fishing for some sort of condemnation of Musk here…. Typical media.

[Craig-EWI]

This interviewer needs a different career path. CIO Porat is so knowledgeable. A good interviewer could have gleaned so much more.

[DavidPat]

Google the predictions from 5 years ago . China is always the boogie man but theres more than a trillion dollars of AI value that has grown in the US in that time...

[breaktherules]

such awful questions...the journalist tries to picture Trump as the absolute evil and asks stupid questions. no real interest in AI...

[MalvinderKaur-ex]

any disease which is carried in blood cannot be assesd otherwise, like diabetic it has to have a blood drop to be assesed

[MalvinderKaur-ex]

Google is nice and i always have said that because they have certain way of doing things and have assembled certain very very good points like knowledge information GPS you tube of course they were given plenty of resources means monies to do that they did it very well that is what i mean when given resources it is used well. not all "Gadhe' do that.i like the way they painstakingly carry on gathering information and that is needed for lot of new programs to be made which are good for human beings complete make over of certain new things.