The "Godfather of AI" thinks it's about time that Google caught up in the AI race. "I think it's actually more surprising than it's taken this long for Google to overtake OpenAI," Geoffrey Hinton , a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto who previously worked at Google Brain, told Business Insider in a Tuesday interview. Google is coming off the heels of its widely praised launch of Gemini 3, an update that some in tech said elevated the giant beyond OpenAI's GPT-5. Google's Nano