Sundar Pichai talks search, AI, machine learning and more in first Founder’s letter


Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has written his first “Founder’s Letter” that talks about his future vision of the company’s future. He said that the company is working towards creating a smart assistant that can follow you anywhere.

Talking about Search, Pichai said that is the “very core of the company”.

It’s easy to take Search for granted after so many years, but it’s amazing to think just how far it has come and still has to go. I still remember the days when 10 bare blue links on a desktop page helped you navigate to different parts of the Internet. Contrast that to today, where the majority of our searches come from mobile, and an increasing number of them via voice. These queries get harder and harder with each passing year—people want more local, more context-specific information, and they want it at their fingertips.

Moving away from search, Pichai also offered insights on Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. He stressed on Google’s long-term investment in the two fields is responsible for many current innovations like voice search, translation, and spam filtering.

Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the ‘device’ to fade away. Over time, the computer itself-whatever its form factor-will be an intelligent assistant helping you through your day. We will move from mobile first to an AI first world.

He also mentioned Google’s efforts to add more and faster ways to access content, such as launching Accelerated Mobile Pages for faster mobile news sites and YouTube Red, its ad-free version of its video service with original content.

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Author: Sneha Bokil

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