Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to all employees on Tuesday, local time, explaining the company’s rush to release artificial intelligence products. He claimed that it reflected the “momentum” within the company.
In the email, Pichai describes a series of new announcements and products that will be unveiled at the annual CloudNext conference, which kicks off this week.
Pichai also highlights other changes within the company, such as YouTube’s partnership with the music industry to develop principles for generative artificial intelligence.
In an email, Pichai wrote, “I see progress everywhere I look at Google.”
Google was shaken by the emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT at the end of last year and has since developed and launched generative AI products, including its Bard chatbot, at a breakneck pace.
In April, Google announced that it was merging one of its key AI research teams with DeepMind, which is developing a new AI model called Gemini that could pose a threat to OpenAI.
In the email, Pichai also revealed a new hardware product that will be launched “in a few months”.
Google declined to comment.
Here’s the full text of the email:
Hello everyone!
We've got an exciting week ahead of us, and there's a lot of excitement across the company about new product announcements.
This morning at our Cloud Next conference, we shared how we're helping Google Cloud customers leverage artificial intelligence to solve problems and carry out new ways of doing things. We're not only using the latest generative AI technology in our own products, but we're also making it available to businesses and developers. Tens of thousands of developers have used more than 100 models in VertexAI, Google Cloud's platform for building generative AI applications. Now, we're extending VertexAI's capabilities to enable customers to customize, integrate, and deeply deploy the underlying models into applications.
We also shared some news about Duet AI, our intelligent AI collaboration partner that helps you get work done efficiently in Workspace and GoogleCloud. More than a million people have already tested DuetAI in Workspace for writing emails and documents, creating custom forms, and generating images in slideshows. Thanks to their feedback, we've been able to quickly improve the product since its release at I/O. DuetAI is now fully available in Workspace, and the preview version in GoogleCloud has been expanded and integrated with more products and services. It can now help organizations code at a professional level, build and extract database information, and even become a cybersecurity consultant. You guys can watch the keynote at Go / Cloudnext23 to learn more about all the announcements at the CloudNext conference.
Google Cloud has had a huge impact on many people and organizations. Through hard work and thoughtful investment by the team, ThomasKurian, Google Cloud CEO, and his team have built Google Cloud into a true industry leader, and we're just getting started.
I see this progress everywhere within Google: from the research teams at Google Research and GoogleDeepMind, to our latest efforts to improve the search generation experience with new inline definitions, AI-powered overviews, and lower latency, making it easier for people to find and understand information from the web. Since expanding Bard to more countries and languages last month, we've received more helpful feedback. I've also personally found the image questioning feature integrated with GoogleLens to be very useful. On the YouTube side, the team is working with the music industry to develop AI features that support creative expression. And in a few months, our Devices and Services team will be launching our newest product. This momentum is the result of hard work by teams across the company, thank you all!
Next month, we'll celebrate Google's 25th anniversary. It's inspiring to see Google employees continuing the optimism, ambition, and speed of the early days, and continuing to do important work. Looking forward to celebrating this milestone in our birthday month, and to the important work that awaits us.
Sandal.