Sundar Pichai Discusses Google’s Position in the A.I. Race

– So the last time we had you on the show was in 2023. Bard — R.I.P. — had just come out. And, I think at the time, the perception was that Google was catching up in A.I. How are you feeling about your position in the race these days? – I think there are a few places in the world where — which are driving the frontier of the technology. I think we are, we are right there. I think we are finding success across various segments. Consumers, enterprises, developers globally. I think our models are at the frontier in some areas. You know, and there are areas where we are behind the frontier. And so it’s a combination. You know, overall capabilities, including text, multimodality, voice or audio. Reasoning in general, overall intelligence, I think we are very capable. When it comes to agentic coding with tool use and instruction following long-horizon tasks, I think we are a bit behind at this moment, but we are hard at work.