Alphabet (GOOGL) is one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com visitors lately. So, it might be a good idea to review some of the factors that might affect the near-term performance of the stock.Over the past month, shares of this internet search leader have returned +8.3%, compared to the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +3.1% change. During this period, the Zacks Internet - Services industry, which Alphabet falls in, has gained 6.9%. The key question now is: What could be the stock's future direction?While medi ...

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) fourth-quarter 2023 results, scheduled to be released on Jan 30, are likely to reflect gains from its strengthening cloud service offerings.The company’s cloud services arm — Google Cloud — has become the key catalyst behind its business growth.Alphabet’s cloud offerings include Google Cloud Platform and Google Workspace, which have been continuously gaining momentum in the booming cloud computing market. Google’s growing investments in infrastructure, security, data management, analytics ...

品玩1月26日讯，据 TheVerge 报道，Google Cloud 与AI 模型存储库 Hugging Face 建立了新的合作伙伴关系，让开发人员无需支付 Google Cloud 订阅费用即可构建、训练和部署 AI 模型。 现在，使用 Hugging Face 平台的外部开发人员将能够“经济高效”地访问谷歌的张量处理单元 (TPU) 和GPU 超级计算机，其中包括数千台 Nvidia 的热门且出口受限的 H100。 Hugging Face 是比较流行的 AI 模型存储库之一，存储开源基础模型，例如 Meta 的 Llama 2 和 Stability AI 的 Stable Diffusion。它还拥有许多用于模型训练的数据库。该平台上托管了超过 350,000 个模型，供开发人员使用或将自己的模型上传到 Hugging Face，就像程序员将代码放在 GitHub 上一样。Hugging Face 的估值为 45 亿美元，去年Google、亚马逊、Nvidia 等公司帮助筹集了 2.35 亿美元。 谷歌表示，Hugging Face 用户可以在“2024 年上半年”开始使用人工智能应用程序构建平 ...

前有Transformer八子叛逃，后有OpenAI五年丢30名高管，如今又是DeepMind团队成批出走。 是谷歌单纯难留，还是AI人才出走已成趋势？ 从DeepMind出走的员工有的流向了微软、OpenAI等大厂，也有的自立门户，成立了新的AI初创公司。 这些AI公司一成立便获得了英伟达、Index Ventures、A16Z等多家知名机构的支持，筹集了巨额资金，活得风生水起。 真就聚是一团火，散是满天星。 1、半年成立三家 Holistic：洽谈2.17 亿美元的融资 1月24日，据Yahoo报道，DeepMind的两名资深科学家 Laurent Sifre 和 Karl Tuyls宣布，他们将离开公司，组建一家名为 Holistic 的人工智能初创公司。 Holistic正计划为企业软件业务开发人工智能技术。  有传言称，两人目前已发出离职通知，正式离开日子暂时未知，正在洽谈一轮约 2.17 亿美元的融资，以帮助建立他们的人工智能模型。 Laurent Sifre于 2014 年加入DeepMind，正是发表“DeepMind 2016 年关于围棋游戏中人工智能系统功能”这一论文成果的合著者之一。 此 ...

Alphabet (GOOGL) is scheduled to report fourth-quarter 2023 results on Jan 30.For the quarter under review, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenues is pegged at $70.71 billion, indicating an improvement of 12% from the year-ago reported number.The consensus mark for earnings is pegged at $1.60, indicating 52.4% growth from the previous year’s reported figure. The figure has been stable over the past 30 days.The company surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate in three of the trailing four quarters while mis ...

Investors often turn to recommendations made by Wall Street analysts before making a Buy, Sell, or Hold decision about a stock. While media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm employed (or sell-side) analysts often affect a stock's price, do they really matter?Let's take a look at what these Wall Street heavyweights have to say about Alphabet (GOOGL) before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to use them to your advantage.Alphabet currently has an average brokera ...

【新智元导读】OpenAI 董事会的 Adam D'Angelo 被曝曾邀请竞争对手加入董事会，阿尔特曼的地位又危险了，而另一方面，谷歌似乎被 OpenAI 压得喘不过气。 阿尔特曼的地位又危险了？ 据知情人士透露，上个月，OpenAI 董事会的 Adam D'Angelo 致电 Databricks 的首席执行官 Ali Ghodsi，询问 Ghodsi 是否考虑加入 OpenAI 董事会。 ▲ Adam D'Angelo 本来找知名公司高管加入董事会这种事并不罕见，但问题是 Databricks 在某种程度上算是 OpenAI 的竞争对手。 Ghodsi 将 Databricks 定位为「OpenAI 的对手公司」，业务为帮助其他公司开发人工智能应用。 ▲ Ali Ghodsi Ghodsi 和 Databricks 的一些高管，都曾公开或私下里向客户表示，从长远来看，出于性能和安全方面的考虑，企业最好开发自己的 AI 模型（或定制开源模型），而不是依赖 OpenAI 的闭源模型。 通常情况下，一家公司不会邀请竞争对手的代表加入自己的董事会，所以不管 Ghodsi 最终有没有加入，D'Ang ...

Analysts on Wall Street project that Alphabet (GOOGL) will announce quarterly earnings of $1.60 per share in its forthcoming report, representing an increase of 52.4% year over year. Revenues are projected to reach $70.71 billion, increasing 12% from the same quarter last year.Over the last 30 days, there has been a downward revision of 0.5% in the consensus EPS estimate for the quarter, leading to its current level. This signifies the covering analysts' collective reconsideration of their initial forecasts ...

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google is leaving no stone unturned to enhance its Android offerings, which have been one of the key growth drivers of the company. Alphabet’s shares have gained 54.4% in the past year compared with the Zacks Computer & Technology sector’s growth of 46.6%.In this regard, Google recently announced that the “Photo Stacks” feature of Google Photos is now getting added to Android.The feature automatically groups similar photos within a short time frame, resulting in one image in the main grid ...

IT 之家 1 月 24 日消息，谷歌近来频繁进行裁员，去年 1 月至今该公司已裁去 1.2 万名员工，而今年 1 月谷歌 CEO Sundar Pichai 更是透露将进一步裁去“千名员工”。 如此裁员行动引发谷歌公司内部员工强烈震动，部分员工选择主动跳槽，并在各大社交媒体平台上发布长文“控诉”谷歌。 一位据称曾在谷歌任职 18 年的前软件工程师 Ian Hickson 日前在自家博客发文，声称谷歌公司内部文化已经“逐渐变质”，从关注用户利益逐渐转变为只考虑公司内部利益及决策者的利益，而透明度也消失了。 Ian Hickson 表示，在 15 年前“不作恶”是公司的指导原则，然而如今谷歌虽然还在强调相关原则，但每重复一遍实际上都是在打自己的脸。在员工士气已达历史最低点的当下，谷歌只是想着怎么通过裁员追求短期利润，不再有“梦想家”、不再优先考虑公司未来应该怎么做。 前谷歌 AR 软件主管 Mark Lucovsky 也在去年中旬发文抨击谷歌，声称他离职的主要原因是谷歌高管们“频繁人事变动”、“办公室政治”以及领导层“朝三暮四”不愿兑现承诺。 其他一些员工也表达了对谷歌领导层的不满。一位前谷歌工程经理 Ke ...