DeepMind CEO called it wartime when ChatGPT hit 100 million users and Google went all out
Demis Hassabis declared AI competition “wartime” in 2023, when Google (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) had fallen behind OpenAI, pushing both companies to transform their research and engineering operations into comprehensive competitive efforts. Google backs up its wartime stance with a CapEx forecast of between $175 billion and $185 billion by 2026 (nearly double the $91.45…