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Bridgewater Says Google Surpassed OpenAI
webA December 2025 newsletter summary of Bridgewater's institutional analysis on AI competitive dynamics; relevant for tracking industry capability claims and investment-driven narratives around AI adoption, but not primary AI safety research.
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Bridgewater Associates, the $92B hedge fund, argues that Google's Gemini 3 has made Google the clear leader in AI, surpassing OpenAI for the first time since GPT-3.5. The report also highlights risks to Nvidia's GPU dominance from Google's TPUs and predicts a wave of existential corporate AI spending as businesses fear disruption.
Key Points
- •Bridgewater co-CIO Greg Jensen declares Google 'the clear leader in the AI race' following Gemini 3's release, ending OpenAI's dominance since GPT-3.5.
- •Google's proprietary TPUs are identified as a significant threat to Nvidia's GPU market share and high gross margins.
- •Bridgewater predicts a 'corporate panic' phase where businesses facing existential disruption will spend 'whatever it takes' to adopt AI.
- •The analysis comes from a major institutional investor largely outside the AI ecosystem, offering a relatively independent financial perspective.
- •The piece reflects Wall Street's increasing focus on AI competitive dynamics as an investment and macro-economic theme.
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"Google is now the clear leader in the AI race."
Matt Robinson Dec 11, 2025 4 1 Share Hey, it’s Matt . This week on AI Street :
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The $92 Billion Hedge Fund on AI’s Future
As AI extends further into the economy and markets, it becomes harder to find a viewpoint that sits mostly outside its influence. That’s why I read with interest recent research from Bridgewater Associates on where the hedge fund sees AI heading.
Written by co-CIO Greg Jensen and AIA Labs Chief Scientist Jas Sekhon , the article makes several noteworthy points:
Google Has Dethroned OpenAI
“[The launch of Gemini 3] marks the first time since the launch of GPT-3.5 three years ago that OpenAI doesn’t have a leading model. ... Google is now the clear leader in the AI race.”
Google’s TPUs Threaten Nvidia’s Grip on AI Compute
“Google’s possession of another AI ecosystem not reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs creates a significant risk to Nvidia’s ability to sustain such high market share and gross margins.”
Corporate Panic Will Drive Spending
“The next phase will come when a major business outside of the AI ecosystem realizes that its entire business model is about to collapse... At that point, every business will have to spend existentially to adopt AI technologies.”
Spending “Whatever It Takes”
"Given the immense potential of AI technologies, we believe companies will spend whatever it takes to keep up ... Stock market corrections, or modest increases in credit spread, don’t change the underlying reality of this dynamic.”
Pre-Training "Scaling Laws" Are Accelerating
“Google cracked the challenge... Our rough approximation is it appears to have used at least 2-3 times more compute than GPT-4o and GPT-5... and possibly an order of magnitude more."
The Economy Will Grow Faster Than Markets Expect
"We think the boost to the global economy in the next two years is underappreciated in most markets... it is these developments that are likely to be the central driver."
Takeaway
The whole article is worth reading, but one other point to highlight is that we’re still so early in this AI world.
“Current frontier AI models are still not easy to work with, and require technical skills, subject matter expertise, and meaningful work to get large gains out of them. But with the capability jump that Gemini 3 brings, the
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