By Lisa Hornung
Publication Date: 2026-01-12 19:36:00
Jan. 12 (UPI) — Alphabet, Google‘s parent company, became the fourth company to reach a $4 trillion value Monday.
The company’s stock rose 2% Monday after Apple announced it chose Google’s Gemini to power its artificial intelligence features.
Nvidia and Microsoft breached the $4 trillion mark in July, and Apple crossed it in October. Alphabet passed $3 trillion in September. Since then, Apple and Microsoft have dropped below $4 trillion.
Analyst Deepak Mathivanan upgraded Alphabet’s stock on Jan. 8, CNBC reported.
“We believe the technological advantages of the Gemini assistant app — powered by Google’s ‘grounding’ assets — vs. ChatGPT (powered by Bing and partner integrations) are underappreciated,” Mathivanan wrote. Google “arguably, has the strongest footprint across several layers in the AI tech stack, and the company’s decade-long investments have enabled deep competitive moats.”
In November, Google released Ironwood, the seventh generation of its tensor processing…