Alphabet is one of TIME’s 100 most influential companies of 2026.

Alphabet was just named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies list.

In the story on Google’s push to the front of the AI race, TIME’s Andrew R. Chow writes: “In 2016, Sundar Pichai had declared Google would be an ‘AI-first company,’ and began cultivating a series of projects—custom chips, Cloud, YouTube, and deep AI research—that seemed to have nothing to do with Google’s core search product. All of these bets have paid off, and then some.”

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