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The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai

7 Apr 2026 38 published claims 3 attributable people

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01 / belief

I think what Elad is getting at is a feeling where I saw a tweet go by that someone was saying, "What you have to realize to explain what's currently going on in the Valley is that every tech executive has severe AI psychosis right now, and is spending a huge amount of time writing code and talking to AI and things like that.

“I think what Elad is getting at is a feeling where I saw a tweet go by that someone was saying, "What you have to realize to explain what's currently going on in the Valley is that every tech executive has severe AI psychosis right now, and is spending a huge amount of time writing code and talking to AI and things like that.”
Speaker
John Collison
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

05 / belief

I think Waymo is a good example of this question I have, which is Google does cut projects, and there's various things you've tried where you said, "We're actually not going to fund this part of X all the way, or we're going to retire this product.

“I think Waymo is a good example of this question I have, which is Google does cut projects, and there's various things you've tried where you said, "We're actually not going to fund this part of X all the way, or we're going to retire this product.”
Speaker
John Collison
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

07 / belief

In other words, I think the market for software engineering and coding is dramatically bigger than anybody thinks, and it's the wrong metric to say token budget versus engineers.

“In other words, I think the market for software engineering and coding is dramatically bigger than anybody thinks, and it's the wrong metric to say token budget versus engineers.”
Speaker
Elad Gil
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

09 / belief

I/O is going to radically change. It's tough to… I think you can paralyze yourself thinking 10 years ahead, but we are fortunate to be in a moment where you can think a year ahead and the curve is so steep.

“I/O is going to radically change. It's tough to… I think you can paralyze yourself thinking 10 years ahead, but we are fortunate to be in a moment where you can think a year ahead and the curve is so steep.”
Speaker
Sundar Pichai
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

12 / belief

I think the more you're able to evaluate things at that deeper technology level, I think you tend to make those decisions better, or at least that's how I have tried to do it.

“I think the more you're able to evaluate things at that deeper technology level, I think you tend to make those decisions better, or at least that's how I have tried to do it.”
Speaker
Sundar Pichai
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

13 / belief

Look, I think even within the company, there's a set of us living on the bleeding edge, firing agents, seeing what these things can do, see the agents pick up skills, do stuff, and also look back three months ago, what they could do now.

“Look, I think even within the company, there's a set of us living on the bleeding edge, firing agents, seeing what these things can do, see the agents pick up skills, do stuff, and also look back three months ago, what they could do now.”
Speaker
Sundar Pichai
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

16 / belief

In terms of living now and having a visceral feel for it, I think the closest, I would say, is if you're coding, and you give it a complex task, and you never open the ID, and you're in some agent manager world, and you see it do it, and how powerful it is.

“In terms of living now and having a visceral feel for it, I think the closest, I would say, is if you're coding, and you give it a complex task, and you never open the ID, and you're in some agent manager world, and you see it do it, and how powerful it is.”
Speaker
Sundar Pichai
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

23 / belief

Look, I think effectively the consumer interfaces are going to have full coding models underneath, and the right harnesses and the right skills and the ability to persist and run somewhere securely in the cloud, locally and in the cloud.

“Look, I think effectively the consumer interfaces are going to have full coding models underneath, and the right harnesses and the right skills and the ability to persist and run somewhere securely in the cloud, locally and in the cloud.”
Speaker
Sundar Pichai
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

24 / belief

I would say that, but I think in generally, at least, we might have gotten the decision wrong, but our approach, at least, was to say, if you got excited about something and had the conviction, you were willing to commit the capital to see it through.

“I would say that, but I think in generally, at least, we might have gotten the decision wrong, but our approach, at least, was to say, if you got excited about something and had the conviction, you were willing to commit the capital to see it through.”
Speaker
Sundar Pichai
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

26 / prediction

Maybe for a while, you would check it in the conventional way, but you switch over, a crossover. But I expect '27 to be a big year in which some of those shifts happen pretty profoundly.

“Maybe for a while, you would check it in the conventional way, but you switch over, a crossover. But I expect '27 to be a big year in which some of those shifts happen pretty profoundly.”
Speaker
Sundar Pichai
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

27 / belief

I think the root of your question is, if you think of Search as a prompt that is not longer than one line, returning a bunch of different ranked results, as opposed to just telling you the right answer or something.

“I think the root of your question is, if you think of Search as a prompt that is not longer than one line, returning a bunch of different ranked results, as opposed to just telling you the right answer or something.”
Speaker
John Collison
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

29 / preference

I think one of the ways we have thought about it and we've been disciplined about, or at least to me, matters a lot, is to make those early technology bets in a deep way.

“I think one of the ways we have thought about it and we've been disciplined about, or at least to me, matters a lot, is to make those early technology bets in a deep way.”
Speaker
Sundar Pichai
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

31 / evaluation

I think all of us running companies, regardless of how AGI-pilled you are, then comes this error band of how bullish can you be, what's the margins you can afford because there are extraneous factors which can go wrong in the world, which are outside of control.

“I think all of us running companies, regardless of how AGI-pilled you are, then comes this error band of how bullish can you be, what's the margins you can afford because there are extraneous factors which can go wrong in the world, which are outside of control.”
Speaker
Sundar Pichai
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

35 / commitment

We built Transformers and used it immediately in Search to improve language understanding, understanding web pages, understanding your queries, kept building better models.

“We built Transformers and used it immediately in Search to improve language understanding, understanding web pages, understanding your queries, kept building better models.”
Speaker
Sundar Pichai
Publisher
Cheeky Pint

36 / evaluation

That is another layer on top of all these things, the cost of mistakes when you're running these services, we have to work through it. But I think because of it, when we solve it, I think we will bring it in a more robust way, which will help.

“That is another layer on top of all these things, the cost of mistakes when you're running these services, we have to work through it. But I think because of it, when we solve it, I think we will bring it in a more robust way, which will help.”
Speaker
Sundar Pichai
Publisher
Cheeky Pint
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