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Alphabet hits USD 4 trillion market valuation: Google’s parent entity Alphabet briefly surpassed the USD 4 trillion market valuation, joining the ranks
of tech titans that includes NVIDIA, Microsoft and Apple. The surge comes on the back of renewed investor confidence in Alphabet’s push for artificial intelligence, cloud computing and enterprise services, the Economic Times reported.
According to a report by Reuters, Class-A shares rose as much as 1.7 percent to hit a record high of USD 334.04. Throughout 2025, Alphabet’s shares surged nearly 65 percent.
Earlier this year, a Reuters report said that Samsung Electronics plans to double this year the number of its mobile devices with AI features powered by Gemini.
Alphabet last week crossed Apple in market capitalisation for the first time since 2019, becoming the second most valuable company in the world.
One of the key drivers of recent growth is the adoption of Google’s AI models. In November last year, Google launched the latest version of its artificial intelligence model Gemini.
Google highlighted that Gemini 3 has been designed for strong multimodal understanding and is a powerful model for “vibe coding.” The company claimed that Gemini 3 outperforms its predecessor on every AI benchmark, topping the LM Arena leaderboard with a score of 1501 points, which demonstrates PhD-level reasoning, earning top marks on Humanity’s Last Exam and GPQA Diamond.
Gemini 3 Pro also excelled in multimodal reasoning, scoring 81 percent on MMMU-Pro and 87.6 percent on Video-MMMU, showcasing how Google’s frontier model can solve complex problems across various topics, including science and mathematics.
Apple will tap Google's Gemini models for its revamped Siri coming later this year under a multi-year deal that deepens the tech giants' partnership in the artificial intelligence era and bolsters Alphabet's position in the race against OpenAI, as per Reuters.
Meanwhile, Google announced that it will be adding more shopping functions to its AI-powered chatbot by partnering with giant retail shops such as Walmart, Shopify, and other major players in the retail sector to transform its Gemini app into a virtual retailer and assistant.
It will be possible for users to proceed with payments within a Gemini chat after discovering products from some businesses and many payment providers without closing the Google Gemini chat, as announced by both Google and Walmart.
Last year, Google announced an investment of USD 15 billion over five years to set up an artificial intelligence data centre in Andhra Pradesh. The tech major has also partnered with the Adani Group and Airtel to build the infrastructure for the project, which also includes the construction of a new international subsea gateway.
