Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Gemini and the coming age of AI

Pichai, who previously oversaw Chrome and Android, is famously product obsessed. In his first founder's letter as CEO in 2016, he predicted that "[w]e will move from mobile first to an AI first world." In the years since, Pichai has infused AI deeply into all of Google's products, from Android devices all the way up to the cloud. Despite that, the last year has largely been defined by the AI releases from another company, OpenAI. The rollout of DALL-E and GPT-3.5 last year, followed by GPT-4 this year, dominated the sector and kicked off an arms race between startups and tech giants alike.