Edison Investment Research

Technology: Google – One armed bandit Pt II

There remains little opportunity for Google in China On the back of AlphaGo’s victory over the world champion Go player, Google is renewing its charm offensive in China. Go is a very popular game in Asia and so when Google’s AlphaGo machine was able to beat the world champion 4-1, it created big waves with the Chinese media. Against that backdrop, Sundar Pirchai, Google’s CEO has been in China nominally to visit Nie Weiping Go School which plans to issue a challenge to Alpha Go.

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