Professor Geoffrey Hinton's comments come after Google received positive reviews for its Gemini 3 model. Some experts believe that this upgrade has put Google ahead of OpenAI's GPT-5. The company also made its mark with Nano Banana Pro, an image generation model that is highly appreciated by users.

Three years after Google was said to have raised red flags when ChatGPT launched, it’s now OpenAI’s turn to sound the alarm. “I think they’re starting to get ahead now,” Hinton said of Google’s position relative to its rivals.

Google’s rally was also supported by news that the company could sign a multi-billion dollar deal to supply AI chips to Meta, which would also boost its stock price. According to Professor Hinton, making its own chips is a “huge advantage” that helps Google maintain its competitive edge. “Google has a lot of excellent researchers, big data and a strong data center system. My prediction is that Google will win,” he said.

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"Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton predicts Google will surpass OpenAI in the artificial intelligence race. Photo: The Canadian Press

During his years at Google Brain, the “godfather of AI” witnessed a period when Google was at the forefront of the AI ​​industry but was cautious about commercialization. “Google was in the lead for a long time. Google invented the transformer architecture, had large-scale chatbots before many other competitors,” he recalled. However, according to him, the company was cautious after Microsoft’s failure with the Tay chatbot in 2016, which had to be quickly removed after posting a series of racist content. “Google has a good reputation and is worried about something like that happening,” he said.

CEO Sundar Pichai previously admitted that Google delayed the launch of its chatbot because it didn’t meet expectations. “We weren’t at the point where we could launch it for public adoption. There were too many issues with the product at that point,” Pichai said. The company has also had a number of bumpy launches in recent years: from having to pause its AI image generator because it reflected skin tone incorrectly, to AI search results offering absurd advice like putting glue on a pizza to keep the cheese from falling off.

Mr. Hinton left Google in 2023 due to concerns about the speed of AI development and has since repeatedly warned about the risks this technology could pose to society, from the ability to surpass human intelligence to the risk of replacing many jobs. In 2024, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with several other researchers.

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