CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly instructed Google workers that 2025 will likely be a “important” 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 will likely be important,” Pichai stated. “I believe it’s actually vital we internalize the urgency of this second, and wish to maneuver sooner as an organization. The stakes are excessive.”
The second, after all, is one the place tech corporations like Google are making heavy investments in AI, and usually with blended outcomes. Pichai acknowledged that the corporate has some catching as much as do on the AI facet — he described the Gemini app (based mostly on the corporate’s AI mannequin of the identical identify) as having “robust momentum,” whereas additionally acknowledging “now we have some work to do in 2025 to shut the hole and set up a management place there as properly.”
“Scaling Gemini on the patron facet will likely be our largest focus subsequent yr,” he stated.
