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Sundar Pichai

Chief Executive Officer & Director, Alphabet Inc. (Google)

Search every verified Sundar Pichai interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Sundar Pichai appeared on the Big Technology Podcast in October 2026, where he discussed Google's position in AI development, stating that the company is committed to investing in the compute resources needed to remain at the AI frontier. He noted that Google's cloud business is foregoing short-term revenue to support frontier AI research and that demand for compute is stretching into 2027. Pichai also described AI as being in its early stages and expressed optimism about its potential benefits, while acknowledging the need to address associated risks. In late September 2026, Pichai participated in a White House AI luncheon with President Donald Trump and other technology executives, where he said the industry agreed that American leadership in AI is important for national security and that companies were committing to a set of processes and controls for product safety. During the event, Trump referred to Pichai as a "monster" in a remark that drew attention; Pichai responded with humor, saying he hoped for "a better tagline than I'm a monster." At the Gemini at Work event in October 2026, Pichai reported that nearly 80% of Google Cloud customers are actively using the company's AI products and that the Gemini app has reached one billion users. He also stated that jobs will evolve as AI develops, citing historical examples of technological change, and argued that the most likely outcome is one that is "incredibly beneficial."

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“The ground zero for us is making sure we are investing in the compute that's needed to be at the AI frontier. So that is, you know, in 2015 I set the company to be AI first. So AI is that key horizontal ingredient across everything we do all the way from search to cloud to way more to everything we do. So I think that is ground zero for us. Making sure both for research and developing the models that we have enough c”

“Look, I think we are deeply committed to driving the state-of-the-art and actually push what this technology can go where it can go all the way from transformers. That's what that's the journey we've been on. So you will see us continue to do that. I think when you're at the frontier, you get an earlier look into the kind of emerging capabilities earlier than others, which helps you better prepare for the future. We ”

“We have one billion users now on the Gemini app, and we are seeing a clear shift. They are not just asking Gemini to know things. They are using Gemini to do things. For businesses, you are already ahead of the curve on agents. Last year at Gemini at Work, we announced Gemini Enterprise, a front door for building agents for different purposes and tasks. And today, nearly 90% of Fortune 100 use Gemini Enterprise at wo”

“Enterprise adoption is moving faster than most people realize. Nearly 80% of all Google Cloud customers are actively using our AI products. And they are not just using it. They're using it intensely. Nearly 500 Enterprise customers have each processed over one trillion tokens on our platform in the last year. This kind of scale tells us we are moving from a period of experimentation to fully integrating AI into your ”

“Well, first of all, uh really proud to be here today. As an industry, I think this moment is historic and consequential. And I think there are extraordinary benefits to this technology. You can see it in the GDP growth we see. We have to make sure we are addressing the risks. And the President has asked us as an industry to step up. And we want to make sure we're putting out products safely. And as Mark said, we are ”

“Well, jobs are going to change. Jobs have always changed. It could being a computer used to be a job. It used to be bubbling full of people doing calculations. But now digital computers do those tasks. I don't think anyone is pining to go back and do calculations all day to do bank interest rates, which is what they used to do. So, I think we'll see an evolution of roles. And as President has mentioned, it's not as t”

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