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Published · transcript-backedSundar Pichai: belief
7 Apr 2026 Cheeky Pint The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
“The Chinese models are very good, but I think outside of China, it's a very good open-source model.”
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- Sundar Pichai
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- 7 Apr 2026
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- Cheeky Pint
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…Exactly. Who has to compute right now and how much can you actually scale relative to overall industry capacity? If everybody has roughly pro rata up to some number, you've effectively put a ceiling on how much far ahead somebody can pull versus everybody else. Do you think that's a correct statement or an incorrect statement? I think it's a reasonable framework to think about it that way. There are things which are… I'm coming here as we just shipped Gemma 4. It's a really good open-source model. The Chinese models are very good, but I think outside of China, it's a very good open-source model. The frontier to Gemma 4 is both huge and not so huge in terms of time. Gemma 4 is based on Gemini 3 architecture. It's a very weird thing. You're talking about a set of weights which can fit on a USB stick. Yeah, it's amazing.…
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