CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly advised Google staff that 2025 might be a “vital” yr for the corporate.
CNBC reviews that it obtained audio from a December 18 technique assembly the place Pichai and different executives placed on ugly vacation sweaters and laid out their priorities for the approaching yr.
“I believe 2025 might be vital,” Pichai mentioned. “I believe it’s actually essential we internalize the urgency of this second, and wish to maneuver quicker as an organization. The stakes are excessive.”
The second, in fact, is one the place tech firms like Google are making heavy investments in AI, and usually with combined outcomes. Pichai acknowledged that the corporate has some catching as much as do on the AI aspect — he described the Gemini app (based mostly on the corporate’s AI mannequin of the identical title) as having “sturdy momentum,” whereas additionally acknowledging “we have now some work to do in 2025 to shut the hole and set up a management place there as properly.”
“Scaling Gemini on the patron aspect might be our greatest focus subsequent yr,” he mentioned.
