Sundar Pichai is having what may be his best week at work in a couple of years. I met the Alphabet and Google CEO in Mountain View Wednesday afternoon amidst a string of victories big and small for the company, from a Nobel prize ceremony to a groundbreaking new AI model to a breakthrough in quantum computing.
Entering his 10th year as CEO, Pichai is always even keeled, whether under pressure or taking a victory lap. But as he walked into a cozy meeting room, he seemed to have subtle bounce in his step and a lightness that may be linked to a kind of vindication.
Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, it’s been a bumpy ride at Google — at least from the outside. The conventional wisdom was that Google somehow missed the ChatGPT moment and was panicking. The AI models it did release made widely-publicized mistakes. But Pichai told me he never doubted the company’s long term plan, choosing to stay the course and play the long game.
- Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a recent interview that he is eyeing a research project on artificial intelligence (AI), similar to the Manhattan Project during World War II, after President-elect Trump returns to the White House next month.
- “I think there is a chance for us to work as a country together,” Pichai said in an interview with Semafor published Thursday night. “These big, physical infrastructure projects to accelerate progress is something we would be very excited by.”
Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a recent interview that he is eyeing a research project on artificial intelligence (AI), similar to the Manhattan Project during World War II, after President-elect Trump returns to the White House next month.
