Gemini Hits 750M Users, Claude Rejects Ads & Perplexity's Microsoft Pivot

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Google's AI dominance is growing. On this episode of AI RADAR, we break down Alphabet's Q4 earnings where Sundar Pichai revealed **Gemini** now has **750 million monthly active users**. Also, **Anthropic** takes a hard stance: **Claude** will remain ad-free forever, calling ads "incompatible" with helpful AI. Meanwhile, **Perplexity** shakes up the cloud market with a **$750M deal with Microsoft**, shifting some workload to Azure. Finally, we touch on **ChatGPT**'s recent outages and Google DeepMind's new world-building AI, **Project Genie**. Sources: • The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/te... • Anthropic Newsroom: https://www.anthropic.com/news • Binance News: https://www.binance.com/en/squ... • TechRadar: https://www.techradar.com/comp... • Google Blog: https://blog.google/technology...

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