Google’s Own AI Researchers Jockey for Access to Its Computing

In the race to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence, Alphabet Inc.’s Google has an enviable position: The company has a healthy cloud computing business, makes its own chips, and has struck deals to share them with companies like Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc.

Google’s success has made its computing resources so valuable, though, that its own AI researchers have to get in line.

Last summer, Andrew Dai, then a researcher in Google’s AI lab, discovered a blind spot in Gemini, the company’s flagship AI model. While playing a board game, Dai took pictures of the board ...