Overview

• Sundar Pichai dismissed suggestions that he was the wrong leader for Google, citing steady progress on AI-powered products since committing to an AI-first strategy.
• He pointed to the merger of Google Brain and DeepMind and early Tensor Processing Unit investments as foundational moves for training models such as Gemini.
• Pichai told a Bloomberg Tech audience that Google’s next CEO would rely on “an extraordinary AI companion” to enhance decision-making.
• He described AI as a tool to boost engineer productivity and said he has tested “vibe coding” with AI assistants to build web pages through simple prompts.
• Pichai cautioned that timelines for achieving artificial general intelligence remain uncertain despite Google’s vast compute and research scale.