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Alphabet Inc. is the parent company of Google, the world's most widely used search engine and digital advertising platform. The company generates the majority of its revenue from advertising across Google Search, YouTube, and its advertising network. Alphabet also operates Google Cloud, which provides enterprise cloud computing services, and Other Bets, which includes ventures like Waymo (autonomous vehicles), Verily (life sciences), and DeepMind (artificial intelligence research). YouTube, with over 2 billion monthly logged-in users, is the world's largest video-sharing platform. Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 while they were PhD students at Stanford University, Alphabet is headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company's investments in AI, particularly through DeepMind and Google Brain, position it as a leader in the development of artificial intelligence technologies.