Alphabet (including Google)
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Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Sector | Software & IT Services |
| Website | https://abc.xyz/ |
Between 2015 and 2025, Alphabet (including Google) researchers released10,067 AI research articles
- #1in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 116.68citations per AI article on average (#15 in PARAT, #8 in the S&P 500)
- 3,420highly cited articles (#1 in PARAT, #1 in the S&P 500)
- -16.5%growth in Alphabet (including Google)'s public AI research (2020–2023)
- 3,982articles at top AI conferences (#1 in PARAT, #1 in the S&P 500)
- 52.8%of Alphabet (including Google)'s total public research was AI-focused
Alphabet (including Google)'s top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 2734 | 204.8 | -5.17 |
| NLP publications | 2151 | 171.6 | -11.91 |
| Robotics publications | 530 | 102.6 | -13.69 |
| AI safety publications | 763 | 162 | -24.58 |
| Large language model publications | 2019 | 214.1 | 0.24 |
Between 2015 and 2025, Alphabet (including Google) filed4,783 AI-related patents
- #6in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 15.8%growth in Alphabet (including Google)'s AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 2,401AI-related patents were granted to Alphabet (including Google) (2017–2020)
- 25.9%of Alphabet (including Google)'s filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Alphabet (including Google)'s filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Computer vision patents | 984 | 2.24% |
| Speech processing patents | 653 | 41% |
| Control patents | 423 | -10.7% |
| Measuring and testing patents | 360 | 15.48% |
| Analytics and algorithms patents | 325 | 46.68% |
Top use cases across Alphabet (including Google)'s filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 2209 | 10.15% |
| Telecommunications patents | 819 | 10.75% |
| Transportation patents | 406 | 0.33% |
| Life sciences patents | 342 | 22.7% |
| Business patents | 297 | 1.9% |
5,924
AI jobs
According to our data, Alphabet (including Google) currently employs about 5,924 AI workers (#5 rank in PARAT, #4 in the S&P 500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
89,655
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Alphabet (including Google) currently employs about 89,655 Tech Team 1 workers (#6 rank in PARAT, #6 in the S&P 500).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.