How Google Is Quietly Becoming an AI Superpower | Short Documentary

Google invented the core technology behind modern AI.
So how did it almost lose control of the revolution it started?

In 2017, a little-known research paper from inside Google introduced the Transformer — the architecture behind ChatGPT, Gemini, image generators, and much of today’s generative-AI boom. What followed wasn’t just an innovation wave, but an AI arms race.

This is Part 1 of a three-part documentary on Google’s rise, stumble, and re-emergence in artificial intelligence.

In this episode, we trace how Google laid the foundations of modern AI, why ChatGPT triggered an internal “Code Red”, and how the company suddenly found itself under pressure from systems built on its own ideas.

But Google’s AI strategy was never just about chatbots.

Part 2 explores where Google is actually placing its bets: AI for science, medicine, robotics, autonomous systems, and the physical world — systems designed to understand reality, not just talk about it.

Part 3 looks ahead to the hardest questions: artificial general intelligence, safety, energy and infrastructure limits, and who controls AI as it begins to act in the world rather than sit behind a screen.

By the end of the series, you’ll be able to decide whether Google is falling behind — or quietly building something far bigger than anyone expected.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

🎵 Music Credits

'Signal to Noise' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

⭐ Chapters

0:00 – Short Documentary Introduction
1:33 – Demis Hassabis: An AI Genius
2:24 – Strategic Location for DeepMind and Demis Hassabis Vision
3:43 – DeepMind and its Google Acquisition
4:05 – The Transformer: Redefined the world as we know it
4:24 – The Introduction of ChatGPT
5:26 – ChatGPT's rising threat to search: Google declares CODE RED
6:23 – Microsoft Integrates AI into Search
6:44 – Google's response: Bard
7:31 – Google Bard's $100B mistake and downfall
8:16 – Google Releases Gemini, their new frontier AI model
9:37 – Gemini's benchmark struggles
10:00 – Gemini bias struggles and backlash


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