2025-12-07 09:01:03
The Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton thinks Google is “beginning to overtake OpenAI” in the AI race.
Speaking to Business Insider, Hinton said he believes Google is now making major strides on the ChatGPT maker after lagging behind for several years, calling it “more surprising” that the company hadn’t already pulled ahead.
His comments follow Google’s well-received launch of Gemini 3, an AI upgrade that many in the industry argue outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-5 across reasoning and multimodal tasks.
The company has also notched another hit with Nano Banana Pro, its lightweight image model designed for on-device generation.
The momentum has flipped the script from 2022, when Google reportedly declared a “code red” after ChatGPT’s explosive debut, but now, reports suggest OpenAI is the one feeling the pressure.
Hinton pointed to Google’s end-to-end hardware and research ecosystem – from its in-house AI chips to its global data center footprint – as a decisive advantage.
A potential billion-dollar deal to supply Meta with these chips only strengthens that position.
Hinton said. “My guess is Google will win.”
He also noted Google’s long history of foundational AI breakthroughs, including inventing the transformer architecture that underpins nearly every modern large language model.
For years, however, Google moved cautiously following Microsoft’s notorious 2016 “Tay” meltdown, wary of reputational damage.
That restraint, Hinton suggested, slowed its public rollout of chatbot technologies.
The interview coincided with Google’s C$10 million donation to the University of Toronto to establish the Hinton Chair in Artificial Intelligence, matching the university’s contribution.
Hinton, who left Google in 2023 to speak more openly about AI risks, said the chair will support the next generation of fundamental research – the same kind that helped spark today’s AI boom.
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