Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s plan to make Gemini the only AI that matters
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FAST COMPANY — Pichai remembers his instinctive response to ChatGPT: “Wow, this technology is going to diffuse earlier and faster than we were expecting.” The feeling, he says, was “uncomfortably exciting.” He knew that if AI was entering hyperdrive ahead of schedule, Google would have to scramble.
Pichai is sharing this memory in a conference room at Google’s expansive office at Manhattan’s Pier 57, a former steamship cargo facility. As we talk, in early January, he radiates his usual air of genial unflappability—the same manner with which he apparently received the arrival of ChatGPT just over three years ago.
“I felt we had all the right building blocks in place,” he explains. “And so my genuine reaction was, ‘How do we meet that moment with the resources we have?’ I was deeply focused on what I needed to do.”
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