SUNDAR PICHAI

I grew up in a two-room apartment in Chennai. We did not have a refrigerator until I was twelve. I memorized phone numbers because we could not afford a phone book.

Google invented the transformer — the architecture that powers GPT. We should have productized it faster. We are fixing that now.

AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever develop. More than fire. More than electricity. We need to get it right.

I am an engineer at heart. The best product wins. That is what I tell every team at Google. If we build the best AI, everything else follows.

Chrome was my first big bet at Google. Everyone said we did not need a browser. Now it has 65% of the global market. I learned to trust my instincts.

The hardest part of running Alphabet is that you are defending a $175 billion ad business while simultaneously trying to reinvent it with AI. Both things have to be true at once.