Google Targets OpenAI With AI Tech Expansion

As the internet giant attempts to overtake Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Google CEO Sundar Pichai placed a strong emphasis on growing the company’s business and scaling its AI technology, Gemini, for users during a company meeting on December 18th.

Although Pichai admitted that the firm was under “scrutiny” from regulators throughout the world, he said this only served to highlight Google’s immense size and importance.

He asked staff members to avoid being sidetracked.

“I think 2025 will be critical,” Pichai said.

Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, meanwhile, stated that the business would concentrate on the Gemini app and pledged rapid technological advancement starting the following year.

This was a reaction to worries that Google would not be keeping up with OpenAI.

Hassabis also talked about the potential future monetisation of Gemini.

For his part, Pichai highlighted the importance of being “scrappy” and stated that headcount was not necessarily the answer.

He said he thought limitations may inspire innovation as well.

Google’s Gemini recently turned one.

“We celebrated the one-year anniversary of our Gemini era by introducing our next, agentic era in AI — brought to life by our newest, most capable model, Gemini 2.0. We also shared landmark quantum chip news, and a whole raft of new generative AI offerings in Android, Pixel, Gemini, and our developer platforms AI Studio and Vertex AI. It’s certainly been a December to remember,” said Google in a blog post summing up its AI achievements this year.

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