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Google is pursuing Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in the rapidly expanding public cloud market, where demand for artificial intelligence models and services is soaring.

Revenue for Google Cloud, which includes corporate productivity apps and infrastructure, increased by 63% to $20.03 billion, exceeding StreetAccount’s estimate of $18.05 billion. That is by far the fastest growth rate since Google began disclosing cloud results in 2020.

Google is competing fiercely with OpenAI and Anthropic in the market for AI models in addition to providing a complete infrastructure suite for AI workloads as an alternative to Nvidia’s graphics processing units, or GPUs. The company is also witnessing rapid growth from its in-house tensor processing units, or TPUs.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai stated during the company’s Wednesday webcast with analysts that “our enterprise AI solutions have become our primary growth driver for cloud for the first time.”. According to Pichai, revenue from products developed using Google’s generative AI models increased by 800%.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, saw a 10% surge on Thursday, making April the stock’s best month since the internet search company went public in 2004. Amazon posted a gain of 0.8%. Microsoft experienced a 4% decline. The market leader in cloud infrastructure, AWS, saw a 28% increase in revenue to $37.6 billion.

Nearly $1 billion less was the consensus among analysts surveyed by StreetAccount. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy stated during his company’s earnings call that AWS customer spending on the Bedrock service for creating AI agents and applications increased by 170% from the fourth quarter, consuming more tokens in the first quarter than in its history.

The findings were released the day after AWS announced that OpenAI models would be available on Bedrock and that a new Bedrock service would allow customers to create complex agents that are integrated with their current infrastructure. Jassy stated, “OpenAI has reported that they’re already seeing unprecedented demand for this new product, and we’re seeing heavy customer interest as well.”.