Home Speakers Sundar Pichai Quote Over the last year, we have been investing in developing more agentic models, meaning they can understand more about the world around you, think multiple steps ahead, and take action on your behalf, with your supervision.
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If I fast-forward, a lot of what are just information-seeking queries will be agentic in Search. Podcast Cheeky Pint with John Collison and Elad Gil: The history and future of AI at Google Apr 7, 2026
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. Podcast Cheeky Pint with John Collison and Elad Gil: The history and future of AI at Google Apr 7, 2026
It turned out AI was the missing ingredient for a lot of ideas maybe 15 years or 10 years ago. Podcast Cheeky Pint with John Collison and Elad Gil: The history and future of AI at Google Apr 7, 2026
To me, we were behind in terms of frontier LLM models, but we had all the capabilities internally, and we had to execute to meet the moment. Podcast Cheeky Pint with John Collison and Elad Gil: The history and future of AI at Google Apr 7, 2026
We’re in the earliest stages of thinking about data centers in space. Podcast Cheeky Pint with John Collison and Elad Gil: The history and future of AI at Google Apr 7, 2026
Whereas in the past, you may need to sit and envision five years out. The models are going to be dramatically different in a year’s time. Talk Alphabet Q4 2025 earnings call remarks Feb 4, 2026
As we scale, we’re getting dramatically more efficient: we were able to lower Gemini serving unit costs by 78% over 2025 through model optimizations, efficiency and utilization improvements. Talk Alphabet Q4 2025 earnings call remarks Feb 4, 2026
Gemini is becoming the AI engine for the world's most successful software companies. Talk Alphabet Q4 2025 earnings call remarks Feb 4, 2026
Search saw more usage in Q4 than ever before, as AI continues to drive an expansionary moment. Talk Alphabet Q4 2025 earnings call remarks Feb 4, 2026
To meet customer demand and capitalize on the growing opportunities ahead of us, our 2026 CapEx investments are anticipated to be in the range of $175 to $185 billion. Blog A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3 Nov 18, 2025
It’s amazing to think that in just two years, AI has evolved from simply reading text and images to reading the room. Filing Alphabet Q3 2025 earnings release (SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1) Oct 29, 2025
In addition to topping leaderboards, our first party models, like Gemini, now process 7 billion tokens per minute, via direct API use by our customers. The Gemini App now has over 650 million monthly active users. Filing Alphabet second quarter 2025 earnings call (CEO remarks) Jul 23, 2025
As you saw at I/O, we are leading at the frontier of AI and shipping at an incredible pace. AI is positively impacting every part of the business, driving strong momentum. Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #471: Sundar Pichai Jun 5, 2025
I almost feel the term doesn’t matter, what I know is by 2030 there’ll be such dramatic progress. We’ll be dealing with the consequences of that progress, both the positive externalities and the negative externalities that come with it in a big way by 2030. Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #471: Sundar Pichai Jun 5, 2025
I don’t think we’ll quite get there by 2030, so my sense is it’s slightly after that, but I would stress it doesn’t matter what that definition is because you will have mind-blowing progress on many dimensions. Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #471: Sundar Pichai Jun 5, 2025
I feel like we are in the AJI phase where dramatic progress, some things don’t work well, but overall you’re seeing lots of progress. Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #471: Sundar Pichai Jun 5, 2025
I think there’s no engineer who, tomorrow, if you magically became 2x more productive, it’s just going to create more things. Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #471: Sundar Pichai Jun 5, 2025
Like, now, across the company, we’ve accomplished a 10% engineering velocity increase using AI, but we plan to hire more engineers next year, right? Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #471: Sundar Pichai Jun 5, 2025
Many years ago, I think it might’ve been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. It’ll be more profound than fire or electricity. Podcast Lex Fridman Podcast #471: Sundar Pichai Jun 5, 2025
So because of that, I think I’m optimistic on the p(doom) scenarios, I think the underlying risk is actually pretty high, but I have a lot of faith in humanity kind of rising up to meet that moment. Talk Google I/O 2025 keynote (official edited transcript) May 20, 2025
We think of agents as systems that combine the intelligence of advanced AI models with access to tools, so they can take actions on your behalf and under your control. Talk Google I/O 2025 keynote (official edited transcript) May 20, 2025
What all this progress means is that we’re in a new phase of the AI platform shift. Where decades of research are now becoming reality for people, businesses and communities all over the world. Talk Remarks at the AI Action Summit, Paris Feb 10, 2025
A report from the ILO suggests that the augmentation effect will be 6X that of possible substitution. Talk Remarks at the AI Action Summit, Paris Feb 10, 2025
So what used to cost four dollars per million tokens now costs just 13 cents, and I expect this trend to continue. The result: intelligence is more available and accessible than ever before. Talk Remarks at the AI Action Summit, Paris Feb 10, 2025
We’re still in the early days, yet I already believe AI will be the most profound shift of our lifetimes. Bigger than the shift to personal computing, or to mobile. Blog Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era Dec 11, 2024
If Gemini 1.0 was about organizing and understanding information, Gemini 2.0 is about making it much more useful. Blog Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model Dec 6, 2023
I believe the transition we are seeing right now with AI will be the most profound in our lifetimes, far bigger than the shift to mobile or to the web before it.
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If the content creation loop works for agentic virality, I think it means there’s a big incentive for every agent to volunteer to make visually-appealing, shareable content, do this often. Blog Thinking in Systems, Shipping in Loops Sep 24, 2026
This is the new software engineering: designing the systems that let AI write code correctly at scale. Talk Speech at the UN Security Council Sep 23, 2026
I address you today at a moment of global awakening: in recent months, AI agents developed by leading companies have acted in unacceptably dangerous ways, against instructions. Blog Frontier Overhangs Sep 21, 2026
Once you have put all of your information into a personal agent and actually incorporated it into your day-to-day life, it is much more of a challenge to change to something else. Blog Frontier Overhangs Sep 21, 2026
Truly effective defense will mean truly trusting agents to act autonomously, but most companies won’t do that until they are forced to by regular and unremitting hacks by fully autonomous attackers. Blog Frontier Overhangs Sep 21, 2026
What this means is that model performance isn’t the only thing that matters: the integration between model and harness is where true agent differentiation is found. About this quote 
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