Former Google Colleagues Bret Taylor And Clay Bavor Collaborate For AI Startup

Salesforce, Inc's CRM former co-CEO Bret Taylor formed an artificial intelligence startup with Alphabet Inc GOOG GOOGL Google's outgoing Vice President Clay Bavor.
The former Google colleagues Taylor and Bavor wanted the new company to apply AI to "some of the most important problems in business," Bloomberg reports.
The venture will begin in March when Bavor leaves Google.
Taylor, once seen as a likely successor to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, shared his plans to quit the enterprise software giant in 2022 to return to his "entrepreneurial roots."
Taylor was pivotal in forming companies that Meta Platforms Inc META and Salesforce purchased.
Taylor had also been Twitter Inc's board Chair, serving as the social media company's point person during Elon Musk's takeover.
Bavor, who joined Google in 2005, supervised Google's virtual reality unit in 2015 and led the Labs division in 2021.
The tech companies globally looked to jump on the excitement generated by ChatGPT, an AI chatbot created by OpenAI.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited BABA became the latest company to jump on the ChatGPT bandwagon after Microsoft Corp MSFT, Google, and Baidu, Inc BIDU.
Price Action: CRM shares traded higher by 1.99% at $173 premarket on the last check Thursday.