From Hewlett-Packard to Google, the tales of bootstrapped companies that have turned into giants has inspired generations of entrepreneurs. In 2019, Aiden Gomez and Nick Frosst left Google to create an A.I. Several months later, they went back to Google and asked if it would sell them the enormous computing power they would need to build their own A.I. The big companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon, he added, are controlling the chips. “They’re controlling the computing power,” he said.

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Persons: Google Bard, Aiden Gomez, Nick Frosst, Sundar Pichai, ”, David Katz, Cohere’s, They’re, “ Organizations: Hewlett, Packard, Google, today’s, Radical Ventures, Microsoft Locations: Toronto