Sundar Pichai
Indian-American business executive, CEO of Google LLC & Alphabet Inc.
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Sundar Pichai - Wikipedia
13 hours ago - Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015, after previously being appointed chief product officer by then CEO Larry Page. On October 24, 2015, he stepped into the new position at the completion of the formation of Alphabet Inc., the new holding company for the Google company family. He was appointed to the Alphabet Board of Directors in 2017. As of May 2025, his net worth is estimated at US$1.1 billion.
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Search Engine Land
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai: Search will profoundly change in 2025
Buckle up, again? Google Search will continue to change profoundly in 2025, according to Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who was interviewed during the 2024 New York Times DealBook Summit.
Published December 6, 2024
The Economist
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Who was the best CEO of 2025?
2 days ago - Even by the standards of the past few turbulent years, 2025 was a taxing time for chief executives. The return of Donald Trump to the White House brought trade war and plenty of chaotic policymaking besides. The battle for technological supremacy between China and the West became fiercer.
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google ceo pichai tells employees to gear up for big 2025: ‘the stakes are high’
r/singularity on Reddit: Tech Google CEO Pichai tells employees to gear up for big 2025: ‘The stakes are high’
November 14, 2024 -
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/google-ceo-pichai-tells-employees-the-stakes-are-high-for-2025.html
TPU is so back. AGI is coming
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Google is just so well positioned to reap the rewards from AI. Really they have been building the company for this from pretty much the start. There is no company that has anywhere near the reach that Google enjoys. Take cars. Google now has the largest car maker in the world, VW, GM, Ford, Honda a bunch of others ones now using Android Automotive as their vehicle OS. Do not confuse this with Android Auto. Google will just put Astra in all these cars. Compare this to OpenAI that has zero access to automobiles. Same story with TVs. Google has Hisense, TCL, Samsung and a bunch of other TV manufactures using Google TV as their TV OS. Google will have all these TVs get Astra. Compare this to OpenAI that has zero on TVs. Then there is phones. The most popular OS in the world is Android. Google has over 3 billion active devices running Android and they will offer Astra on all of these phones. Compare this to OpenAI that does not even have a phone operating system. Then there is Chrome. The most popular browser. Compare this to OpenAI that does not have a browser. Google will be offering Astra built into Chrome. But that is really only half the story. The other is Google has the most popular applications people use and those will be fully integrated into Astra. So you are driving and Astra will realize you are close to being out of gas and will tap into Google Maps to give you the gas station ad right at the moment you most need it. Google will also integrate all their other popular apps like Photos, YouTube, Gmail, etc. Even new things like the new Samsung Glasses are coming with Google Gemini/Astra built in. There just was never really a chance for OpenAI. Google has basically built the company for all of this and done the investment to win the space. The big question is what Apple will ultimately do? They are just not built to provide this technology themselves. I believe that Apple at some point will just do a deal with Google where they share in the revenue generated by Astra/Gemini from iOS devices. Same thing they are doing with the car makers and TV makers. They will need to because of how many popular applications Google has. Astra will also be insanely profitable for Google. There is so many more revenue generation opportunities with an Agent than there is with just search. BTW, it will also be incredibly sticky. Once your agent knows you there is little chance you are going to switch to a different one. This is why first mover is so important with the agent and why Google is making sure they are out in front with this technology. Plus the agent is going to know you far better than anything there is today so the ads will also be a lot more valuable for Google. The other thing that Google did that helps assure the win is spending the billions on the TPUs starting over a decade ago. Google is not stuck paying the massive Nvidia tax that OpenAI is stuck paying. Plus Google does not have to wait in the Nvidia line. That is how Google can offer things like Veo2 for free versus OpenAI Sora https://www.reddit.com/link/1hg6868/video/sopmwriocd7e1/player?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=OpenAI&utm_content=t3_1hg6868 Or how Google is able to offer Gemini Flash 2.0 for free. But this is a very common MO for Google. They offer this stuff for free and suck out all the money and hurt investment into competitors. Then once the competition is gone Google will bump up the ads and/or subscription price. Plus the fact that people are not going to want to switch Agents it will also allow Google to bump up the ads without losing material customers.
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It's interesting that this is coming out now. What many people, even major Google fans, may not know, is that the original founders purchased a farm after selling the company. The weird part? Since introducing AI into the farm's workflow, their cattle have been grazing on some new type of grass. Apparently, the steaks have never been higher.