By Brent D. Griffiths
Publication Date: 2025-12-05 09:30:00
The “Godfather of AI” thinks it’s about time that Google caught up in the AI race.
“I think it’s actually more surprising than it’s taken this long for Google to overtake OpenAI,” Geoffrey Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who previously worked at Google Brain, told Business Insider in a Tuesday interview.
Google is coming off the heels of its widely praised launch of Gemini 3, an update that some in tech said elevated the giant beyond OpenAI’s GPT-5. Google’s Nano Banana Pro AI image model has also proven to be a hit.
Three years after Google reportedly declared a “code red” after the release of ChatGPT, recent reports indicate it’s now OpenAI that is sounding the alarm.
“I think that right now they’re beginning to overtake it,” Hinton said of Google’s position relative to OpenAI.
On top of the successful launch of its latest AI model, shares of Google rose on reports that it might broker a billion-dollar deal to supply Meta with…
