Sundar Pichai on Google layoffs, AI plans and when his company ‘got it wrong’
Hindustan TimesSundar Pichai asserted that artificial intelligence has been a key focus of Google parent Alphabet since 2016. Acknowledging recent hiccups like the controversy over images generated by Google's Gemini, Sundar Pichai said, “We got it wrong. As soon as it’s ready, we will get it out to people.” Sundar Pichai on Google's future and how search has changed Talking about Google's future, he said that getting search right is essential to the company since ads placed among search results push $300 billion in annual revenue. I think it’s part of what will define search in the next decade ahead.” Sundar Pichai on difficult conversations at Google On making tough decisions at Google, Sundar Pichai said, “The reality I think is quite different. I think the larger the company is, you are making fewer consequential decisions, but they need to be clear and you have to point the whole company to that.” Sundar Pichai on Google layoffs Google has been recently laid off dozens of engineers who protested the company’s cloud contract with the Israeli government and Sundar Pichai described this as an unacceptable disruption of daily business.