# Professor Vasant Dhar comments on Google's new AI product offerings

1 Faculty News October 4, 2016 ![San Jose Mercury News logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_043391.jpg?itok=uo-uvv5A)>

Excerpt from [The Mercury News](http://www.techwire.net/market-news/google-releases-home-assistant-device-wi-fi-router-system-and-more.html) -- "For Google, the Assistant provides snapshots of users’ lives, a richer source of data than what the firm gathers by monitoring people’s Google searches, [Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar) said. 'At the end of the day that’s what everyone’s competing for, they’re competing to know everything about you,' Dhar said. 'Facebook’s doing the same thing through a different channel. Facebook is killing it. It’s a space that Google really needs to be in.'"

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