Summary
- During Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote at I/O in May, he discussed the company’s new “AI mode” search and its plans to “graduate” features from AI Mode to the main search experience.
- AI was also discussed in terms of what happens to the web when AI tools and agents do most of the browsing for users.
- The conversation also covered the current state of search, the history of the AI platform, and the future of AI.
- Pichai believes that the AI platform is much more important and has a much broader impact than previous platform shifts and will allow people to create new things.
- AI will also make it easier to move from one format to another, and he believes people are producing a lot of content and consuming a lot of content.
- When asked if people are completely convinced that phones and laptops are legacy platforms, he responded that computing will be available and that people will no longer have to make choices.
This is an exciting time to be a consumer and a developer, and Pichai is confident that Google will continue to innovate and create new opportunities.