And to me, that's the North Star, that's our mission.
He said that for India, like other emerging countries, technology shifts are an opportunity to catch up or leap ahead.“Great example in India.
We are committed to bringing the same AI tools.
Seeing a lot of developing activity on existing AI tools.
India will be well positioned as the shift to AI happens,” he said.
Just a day before Alphabet was scheduled to hold its annual Google developers' conference, OpenAI on May 13 launched its new AI model GPT-4o, short for “omni,” which will power the ChatGPT chatbot and will be available to users including those who use the free version.Was Open AI trying to steal Google's thunder by announcing upgrades to Chat GPT ahead of the Google I/O event? Well, the CEO of Google and Alphabet Sundar Pichai believes “one event happened over a day, does not matter over time.”“From my perspective, this inflexion point we are on with AI, the opportunity that I see, you want to zoom out, the fact that one event happened over a day, does not matter over time,” he said on the sidelines of the Google developers' conference on May 15.Pichai explained that it’s important to have a perspective as work is underway on the most profound technologies that humanity will ever work on. “As a company, we have been investing in it over a long time. We are developing state of art models and working to deploy them to billions of people in a way where we can make a difference in their lives. And to me, that's the North Star, that's our mission. We stay focussed on that.”Reflecting on the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-4o and ChatGPT’s desktop version, the Google CEO said these are "micro-moments" and that it’s good to see other companies innovate as he loves to see innovation. “We are as divided by innovation as you all are. It pushes us to do better. It’s good for the world. For me, it was a great week to be in technology,” he said.Pichai also spoke about the adoption of artificial intelligence in emerging nations. He said that for India, like other emerging countries, technology shifts are an opportunity to catch up or leap ahead.“Great example in India. India was never going to cross developed worlds in personal computing penetration. But for mobile, more people got access than in prior generations. People didn't have landlines, but most people got mobiles,” he said.He explained that with each tech shift, there is a better opportunity to drive penetration and That is genuinely true with AI.“AI tools..for a lot of our products, India is the number one country, in terms of user base. We are committed to bringing the same AI tools. Seeing a lot of developing activity on existing AI tools. Exciting moment. India will be well positioned as the shift to AI happens,” he said.
