Sundar Pichai

Oversaw Argon's general release on October 13 and Carbon's public release on November 10.

Google released Gemini 4 Carbon publicly on November 10, making its strongest model available to paid developers, businesses and Google AI Ultra subscribers. Carbon is built for long, multi-step work such as complex coding, scientific research and finding software vulnerabilities.

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In office

Google will spend US$15 billion building data centres in Malaysia in 2027 and 2028. The company says it will pay for all the electricity its campuses use, cover the cost of connecting them to the grid, and work with utility Tenaga Nasional Berhad to add more than 1 gigawatt of clean energy capacity.

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Testified in remedies trial; overseeing appeal strategy

Google told the D.C. Circuit on October 19 that its default-search deals with Apple and Mozilla were lawful competition, not exclusion, in its last brief before oral argument. The company is appealing both the 2024 finding that it illegally maintained a search monopoly and the remedies Judge Amit Mehta ordered in 2025.

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Overseeing Google's $17 billion Wyoming buildout

Crusoe spent more than a year assembling land, permits and a power plan for a data center campus in southeast Wyoming. It never signed the tenant the project needed. On November 6, Google bought the site.

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Overseeing company-wide AI strategy

Google donated three agent-infrastructure projects to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation on November 5: Agent Substrate, gVisor and OpenRL. Agent Substrate, which snapshots idle agents to storage and restores them in under 500 milliseconds, reached version 1.0 and is generally available on Google Kubernetes Engine.

Updated 6 days ago

Announced EmbeddingGemma 2 publicly

Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2 on October 6. The 740-million-parameter model turns text, code, images, video, and audio into lists of numbers that can be compared in one shared space. It runs on a phone or laptop, and its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license.

Updated Oct 22

Overseeing Google's nuclear power investments

Google and Constellation Energy signed a 20-year power purchase agreement on October 6 covering 3,590 megawatts on the PJM grid, the largest US power market. Of that, 890 megawatts is new capacity from efficiency upgrades at 11 reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Updated Oct 22

Signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence

Federal agencies are moving at different speeds to replace 'artificial intelligence' with 'Super Intelligence.' NASA pushed its second round of website and title changes live on October 16, two weeks early, while other agencies have made only partial switches.

Updated Oct 20

Signed the accord

Six leading AI developers signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on September 29, pledging internal controls, an internal monitoring team, an external auditor, and board review. Anthropic is the first signatory to act, giving six staffers from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier models, employee-like access to test its models and publish findings.

Updated Oct 17

As of September 2026: Oversees Google's largest single European investment

Google announced a €13 billion ($15.1 billion) plan to build AI data centers across four Finnish sites, its largest single investment in Europe. The 2027-2028 construction phase covers new campuses in Hamina, Kajaani, Muhos, and Vaala.

Updated Sep 10

As of September 2026: Publicly promoted the Atlas launch

Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas on Tuesday, a free online database that predicts the effects of all 9 billion possible single-letter changes to human DNA. The 1-petabyte resource, built on the AlphaGenome AI model, is the most complete catalogue of human genetic variation ever built.

Updated Sep 9

As of August 2026: Leading Google's push to embed Gemini across its products

A billion people now open Google's Gemini assistant each month. Google said Tuesday the app passed that mark, its 14th product to reach a billion users and, by its own count, the fastest to get there.

Updated Aug 12

As of August 2026: Directing company-wide push to run Gemini across products

Apple has been first to nearly every chip-manufacturing shrink for years. On August 12, 2026, Google beat it to the 2-nanometer mark, putting the chip inside the Pixel 11 weeks before Apple's next iPhone.

Updated Aug 12

As of July 2026: Defending a roughly $180-190 billion 2026 spending plan

Tesla and Alphabet reported second-quarter results after U.S. markets closed on July 22. They are the first of the seven mega-cap tech firms Wall Street calls the Magnificent Seven to open the season.

Updated Jul 22

As of July 2026: Driving a product-wide push to make Gemini the default layer across Google.

When Google launched Gemini 3 Flash in December 2025, it bet that a fast, cheap model could become the default brain of Search, the Gemini app, and developer tooling. That bet compounded. Google shipped Gemini 3.1 Pro in February 2026 and Gemini 3.5 Flash in May; the latter reached general availability on July 14 and is now the default across every major Google surface.

Updated Jul 15

As of July 2026: Overseeing Google Quantum AI initiatives

Quantum computers can already outperform classical supercomputers on specific tasks, as Google's Willow chip demonstrated when it solved in five minutes a problem that would take the fastest machines 10 septillion years. The breakthrough, announced in October 2025, marks the first verifiable quantum advantage, achieved with Google's Quantum Echoes algorithm, which is 13,000 times faster than supercomputers. But scaling from 100-qubit systems to the million-qubit machines needed for real-world applications requires control hardware that doesn't exist, and current laser systems are tabletop-sized, power-hungry, and impossible to replicate thousands of times over.

Updated Jul 9

As of June 2026: Pushing the competing Gemini agent stack

For 40 years, an operating system was a passive surface: apps ran on it, users clicked through it, and the OS arbitrated memory and files. On June 2, 2026, Microsoft moved Windows out of that role.

Updated Jun 2

As of May 2026: Leading Google's AI repositioning around Gemini and agentic tools

For most of computing's history, every line of production code at a major software company was typed by a human. On April 24 at Google Cloud Next 2026, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said 75 percent of new code at the company is now generated by artificial intelligence and reviewed by engineers. That share was 25 percent in October 2024.

Updated May 31

As of May 2026: Publicly promoted the Gemma 4 launch

For two years, the most capable artificial intelligence models lived behind paywalls and API meters. Google made that harder to justify on April 2, 2026, when it released Gemma 4: four open models ranging from 2 billion to 31 billion parameters. The models handle text, images, video, and audio under a fully permissive Apache 2.0 license with no usage restrictions. The competitive response was nearly immediate. Meta released Llama 5 just six days later, significantly ahead of its previously signaled Q3 2026 target. Chinese lab DeepSeek followed on April 24 with its V4 model, a 1.6 trillion-parameter system also shipped as open-source under an MIT license. What began as a bilateral licensing contest between Google and Meta has become a six-way open-model race.

Updated May 30

As of May 2026: Oversaw Google's largest-ever acquisition

Wiz was founded in January 2020 by four veterans of Israel's military intelligence Unit 8200. Six years later, Google paid $32 billion in cash — the largest deal in Google's history, the largest cybersecurity acquisition ever, and more than the combined cost of its eight next-biggest purchases.

Updated May 30

As of May 2026: Leading Google's vertical AI integration push

Sundar Pichai opened Google I/O 2026 with a Gemini model that can run a user's desktop. The keynote unveiled Android XR smart glasses too. Aluminium OS, a laptop platform merging Android and ChromeOS, will ship as 'Googlebooks' from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.

Updated May 19

As of May 2026: Overseeing Google's pivot to power-first data center infrastructure

Google spent $4.75 billion over a year ago acquiring Intersect Power, owning power plants that feed its AI data centers. Amazon bought a Pennsylvania nuclear campus; Microsoft restarted Three Mile Island in September 2024; Meta announced nuclear deals with Vistra, TerraPower, Oklo unlocking up to 6.6 gigawatts for American AI. Tech giants now control the grid.

Updated May 16

As of May 2026: Leading $4.75B Intersect acquisition

Alphabet just paid $4.75 billion for a power company, securing 10.8 gigawatts of capacity—enough to power 8 million homes. Tech giants spent 2024 locking down nuclear reactors and signing multibillion-dollar energy deals because there's not enough electricity for AI.

Updated May 16