
“I want people to know that we made them dance,” said Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella in a recent interview, when discussing his company’s success in beating Google to the punch on artificial intelligence.
For Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) — Google’s parent company — it doesn’t matter who gets the early start, but rather who wins the race.