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Ben Gilbert: uncertainty

6 Oct 2025 Acquired Google Part III: The AI Company

“I don’t know, but at steady state it probably will be something like 25%, maybe up to 50%.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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uncertainty
Recorded
6 Oct 2025
Publisher
Acquired

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…Google’s dedicated AI offerings in chatbot was initially the immediately obviously inferior product, and now it’s arguably on par with several others. They own 90% of the search market. I don’t know what they own of the AI market, but it’s not 90%. Is it 25%? I don’t know, but at steady state it probably will be something like 25%, maybe up to 50%. But this is going to be a market with several big players in it. So even if they monetized each user as great as they monetize it in Search, they’re just going to own way less of them. Or at least it certainly seems that way right now.…

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