Pichai sees platform shift as AI brings tech research to life
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Artificial intelligence has brought about a significant platform shift, allowing people, businesses and communities all over the world to access decades of research, Sundar Pichai , CEO of Google and Alphabet, has said.Google is shipping products faster across frontier AI models, products and features, Pichai told global media persons prior to Google I/O annual developer conference, of which ET was a part, late on Monday."In our biggest markets, like the US and India, AI overviews are driving over 10% growth in the types of queries that show them. And what's particularly exciting is how this growth increases over time. It's one of the most successful launches in search in the past decade," he said.On Tuesday, Google is rolling out AI mode for search in the US, with advanced reasoning capabilities to answer longer and complex queries. The search giant has been betting big on AI in the last couple of years. It recently announced a $75-billion investment for an AI data centre. It is now doubling down on its effort by integrating AI across its products and services.With the new launches, the AI race is heating up between Google, Microsoft and OpenAI as they compete with their new AI coding agents, data centre capabilities, and newer AI models that can handle multimodal data such as audio and video.Pichai told media persons that the Gemini app now has over 400 million monthly active users and the AI overviews in search has more than 1.5 billion users, which is currently available in select countries like the US. The firm will be expanding it and making it available in more than 200 countries and territories, he added.Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind Technologies, said during the call that an updated version of Gemini 2.5 Flash will be available from June.
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