In 2024, Alphabet spent 49.32 billion U.S. dollars on research and development across its many properties. This is an increase of over 3.8 billion U.S. dollars compared to the company's R&D expenses in the previous year.
Annual research and development expenditure of Alphabet from 2013 to 2024
(in million U.S. dollars)
Characteristic
R&D expediture in million U.S. dollars
2024
49,326
2023
45,427
2022
39,500
2021
31,562
2020
27,573
2019
26,018
2018
21,419
2017
16,625
2016
13,948
2015
12,282
2014
9,832
2013
7,137
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Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate created in 2015 as the parent company of Google and several other companies previously owned by or tied to Google.
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