Pichai's Prediction: AI to write Google's next 25 years, lift people's lives
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As Google looks ahead, the Indian-origin tech mogul has been reflecting on the commitment from the original founder’s letter in 2004: “to develop services that improve the lives of as many people as possible — to do things that matter.”
Google CEO mourns death of Luiz Andre Barroso, creator of modern data centre
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Barroso, a 22-year veteran of Google died on September 16 at the age of 59.
From dad to son, Pichai recollects how Google transformed lives in last 25 yrs
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Celebrating Google’s rich history of events (the company will officially celebrate its 25th birthday later this month), Pichai said it's time for some gratitude, and a moment to reflect.
What an incredible moment: Sundar Pichai on India’s historic Moon feat
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“What an incredible moment! Congratulations to @isro for the successful landing of #Chandrayaan3 on the moon,” Sundar Pichai said in a post on X.com.  “Today India became the first country to successfully achieve a soft landing on the southern polar region of the moon,” he added.
Google to set up global fintech operation centre in Gujarat: Pichai
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After meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Friday during his three-day state visit to the US, Pichai made the announcement, saying that the company will continue to invest in India through its $10 billion digitisation fund. In 2020, Google had announced to invest a whopping $10 billion.
Ashwini Vaishnaw meets Sundar Pichai at Google HQ, discusses India Stack
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Pichai last met Vaishnaw during his India visit in December, saying it was important for the government to create regulatory frameworks that help companies innovate on top of those local laws of the land. "Met @sundarpichai at the @Google HQ. Good discussion on India Stack and Make in India programme," tweeted Vaishnaw.
YouTube's revenue falls as ads slow down for 3rd quarter in a row
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YouTube logged $6.69 billion in advertising revenue for the quarter that ended March 31, compared to $6.87 billion during the same period last year. The company, however, is seeing growth in Shorts as watch time and monetisation is "progressing nicely". People are engaging and converting on ads across Shorts.
Sundar Pichai creates 'Google DeepMind' to build robust AI systems
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This group, called 'Google DeepMind', will bring together two leading research groups in the AI field: the Brain team from Google Research, and DeepMind. "Their collective accomplishments in AI over the last decade span AlphaGo, Transformers, word2vec, WaveNet, AlphaFold, sequence to sequence models, distillation, deep reinforcement learning, and distributed systems and software frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX for expressing, training and deploying large scale ML models," Pichai explained in a blog post late on Thursday.
Sundar Pichai promises more capable Bard AI chatbot soon
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Bard was released for the public on March 21 but failed to garner the attention won by OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing chatbot. We clearly have more capable models. Pretty soon, we will be upgrading Bard to some of our more capable Pathways Language Model (PaLM) models, which will bring more capabilities; be it in reasoning.
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