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Google's parent company, Alphabet, hit a new milestone on Friday: a $2 trillion market cap.  

Google is now the world's fourth most valuable public company, right behind Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft, which has a market cap of just over $3 trillion and overtook Apple earlier this year for first place. 

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Megacorps was so 2000late, now we are into Terracorps.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Long live the Terran Empire!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (5 children)

How the hell is Nvidia worth more?

Why is this kind of market cap even possible?

This makes no sense on all fronts...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

I think that they're considered to be well-positioned to extract a ton of money from companies that want to do parallel computing, AI and suchlike.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Between crypto mining and AI, there are a lot of companies buying Nvidia hardware.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

NVIDIA has double the PE Ratio. It’s an indicator that people are just hyped up about AI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Not just AI. There's whole new verticals that use GPUs now. Specifically vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They're the main server hardware supplier around, especially when it comes to new tech areas like generative technology and things that require a lot of computation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I know why. But you'll have to wait until next year to ask AI me why.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tainted by the blood of Palestinian children

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm out of the loop, what's Google's involvement in that?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (10 children)

In short, Google fires all employees that as much as think about supporting Palestine.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Look up Project Olympus and Israel's use of AI (Lavender/The Gospel). Many inside the company have good reason to believe that Google/Amazon is powering the AI that is leading to the indiscriminate killings.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

So Apple became the first trillion dollar company and ~5 years later Google becomes ~~the first~~ A* 2 trillion dollar company. That rate of growth sounds inflated and unrealistic.

[edit] updated to reflect corrections based on u/[email protected] 's pedantry

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Google becomes the first 2 trillion dollar company.

Except no, because Google is still worth less than nVidia, Apple, and Microsoft. So one of them was the first $2 trillion company.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

the android keyboard is still laggy as fuck so i can't type for shit on my phone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Moneywise maybe but its losing real life value very fast!

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