Google CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed that the company is working on the third generation of the Gemini AI model, having already released multiple versions of Gemini and Gemini 1.5. While talking about these AI models at the earnings call post Q3 2024 results announcement, Pichai also said that the company has “aggressive” plans next year.
When asked about the change of perception from “Alphabet was not as innovative on AI as they should” to “moving pretty quickly rolling out new products”,
Pichai said the company, “given the important moment, had to gear up to build models from scratch that could be productionised at scale on our architecture. And that’s what the Gemini era was about.”
But now I think we are in much more of a virtuous cycle with a lot of velocity in the underlying models. We’ve had two generations of Gemini model. We are working on the third generation, which is progressing well. And teams internally are now set up much better to consume the underlying model innovation and translate that into innovation within their products.
Pichai also noted that all the seven Google products, which have 2 billion users each, “have done their first versions of incorporating Gemini, and there is [an] aggressive road map ahead for 2025.”
Pichai on how restructuring is helping the company
Talking about restructuring at Google, Pichai said that there’s a lot more that the company can do in terms of incorporating AI in its products.
“And we are also enabling smaller teams to ship newer experiences and Notebook LM was the first instantiation of those types of efforts as well,” he said.
Through it all, within, we had to do this when the company evolved from desktop to mobile. We are restructuring the company. Effectively, if you think of Google as a neural network, we are forming new synapses, which work much better to adapt to this moment. And I think that sets us up well for the year ahead. And we are bringing all of this innovation to the outside world through cloud as well. And so we are going to do that. And so that’s an additional opportunity at this moment.