Why is Google spending $32 billion to acquire Wiz?

Should regulators approve Google's proposed $32 billion purchase of Wiz, a cloud security startup, it'll become Google's largest acquisition ever, dwarfing the $12.5 billion Google paid for Motorola in 2012. Google later sold Moto to Lenovo, but Wiz might not suffer the same fate. That's because Wiz isn't in the business of manufacturing smartphones. Wiz might be a lot more important than that, considering the age of AI that we're now entering.

While significant effort is being devoted to advanced AI models run on devices with limited resources, like mobile phones, we'll still need cloud processing for the more advanced AI features that companies like OpenAI and Google release. At the same time, AI is becoming increasingly more personal, whether it runs on-device or in the cloud. Then there's AI use in the enterprise, which might become even more sophisticated in the near future.

Cloud security will be more important than ever, and it makes a lot of sense that Google is looking to bolster the security of its Google Cloud product by buying one of the hottest cloud security startups in the world.

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