Sundar Pichai: belief

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…For context, I guess humans pick it up in the low hundreds of milliseconds, is that correct? In terms of where it actually impacts? That's right. I think we've actually, last I checked the dashboard and the metrics, we've actually improved Search latency by 30% in the last five years. But think about the functionality progression that's happened. This is why in Gemini, we deeply think about that parade of frontier of making sure the capability to speed, and the flash models are at like 90% the capability of the pro models, but much faster, much more effective to serve, and the vertical integration helps and so on. How do you think about the future of Search, actually? Because a lot of people now are talking about chat as a new interface. Obviously, Gemini is incorporated, or Search has incorporated Gemini or AI results in the context of Google. But a lot of people are not talking about agentic flows, and everybody's going to have a personal agent who, instead of typing in a query, it'll go and do something for you. Instead of asking about trips, it'll go and plan a trip for you. What do you view as the future of Search? Is it a distribution mechanism? Is it a future product? Is it one-of-N ways people are going to interact with the world?…

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