Google's parent company Alphabet has surpassed Apple to become the second-largest company by market capitalization worldwide.

Deep Tide TechFlow News, January 08, Google parent company Alphabet has surpassed Apple to become the second-largest company by market capitalization globally, reflecting that Alphabet has emerged as one of the most prominent winners in the artificial intelligence field. Alphabet’s stock price rose 2.4% on Wednesday, with a closing valuation of $3.89 trillion. This leapfrogged Apple, which closed Wednesday with a market cap of $3.85 trillion; earlier, Apple’s stock experienced six consecutive days of decline, losing nearly 5% in value, approximately $200 billion. On Thursday, this divergence further widened, with Apple opening down 1.2%, while Alphabet rose 1.1%.

This is the first time since 2019 that Alphabet’s market cap has exceeded Apple’s. Nvidia remains the most valuable stock with an estimated valuation of about $4.6 trillion. Recently, Alphabet’s stock has surged rapidly, increasing by over 65% during 2025, making it the best-performing among the “Big Seven” US stocks.

This strong performance largely reflects the growing market consensus that Alphabet has significant advantages in multiple key areas of artificial intelligence. The company’s latest GeminiAI model has received widespread praise, helping to ease market concerns about competition from companies like OpenAI; at the same time, its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips are also seen as a potential major driver of future revenue growth. (Jin10)