Message from Sundar Pichai
We’ve made extraordinary progress to ship on our full AI stack. We’ve received superb expertise, world-class compute, and merchandise that carry AI to extra folks than another firm. And also you noticed the unbelievable momentum at earnings throughout all our companies, together with Search, YouTube, and Cloud. Our Gemini fashions are in excessive demand amongst builders and companies, and the Gemini app reached 950M+ month-to-month customers. In the meantime, our AI analysis continues to drive field-defining breakthroughs (like final week’s Gemini Robotics advances).
Now we have to speed up all this work and keep centered on the AI frontier. On the similar time, there’s by no means been a extra necessary second to form the way forward for AGI and science. Right now Demis, Koray and I are sharing just a few adjustments to our Google DeepMind groups that can allow us to do each.
AGI and science: Demis has described us as standing within the foothills of the singularity, and has been spending a number of his time engaging externally. He and I’ve been lengthy discussing a job that permits him to place his full consideration on actively shaping the way forward for AGI. It’s work that’s vitally necessary to Alphabet and humanity, and I can’t think about a greater particular person than Demis to do it. So, transferring ahead, Demis will turn into the Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, whereas persevering with to guide Isomorphic Labs. He’ll stay carefully related to Koray, Josh, and our GDM groups, advising throughout fashions and analysis. I’m so excited for Demis — that is really his life’s work and goal. You’ll be able to learn Demis’s observe to GDM under.
Google DeepMind: We’re constructing robust momentum: Flash is in excessive demand, our Cyber mannequin is stay, and Gemma fashions have surpassed 900M+ downloads. We’re dedicated to being on the frontier, and are tremendous centered on the areas the place we have to enhance. I’m actually excited for our upcoming mannequin releases and the progress we’re seeing. Now we have to proceed to maneuver quick and with clear goal right here. Koray, the present Chief Expertise Officer of GDM and our Chief AI Architect, will step up as SVP of Google DeepMind, reporting to me. He’ll oversee Gemini mannequin growth, Frontier AI analysis, and the Gemini app and developer groups. Koray has been at DeepMind since its early days, and over his 13 years there, he has began our deep studying staff and led the way in which on breakthroughs like WaveNet and DQN. I stay up for seeing him lead GDM into this subsequent chapter.
Lastly, after an unbelievable 27-year run, Jeff Dean is at a second the place he desires to strive one thing new, and we’re excited to help him in that. Jeff and Google Senior Fellow Sanjay Ghemawat are launching an unbiased public profit company to speed up discoveries in ML, science, and engineering. Jeff and Sanjay helped to drive a few of the most vital expertise transitions, from our early search infrastructure to the neural networks that helped create the fashionable AI period. On a private observe, it’s been a privilege to work alongside Jeff and Sanjay, and I want all of them one of the best! We’ll proceed to work with them as a founding investor and Cloud companion, and collaborate on a analysis framework for ML techniques and associated infrastructure advances.
We’re at a dynamic second with a lot alternative forward. With as we speak’s adjustments we’ll preserve driving our momentum. Onwards!
-Sundar
