Google CEO Sundar Pichai was ‘excited’ after ChatGPT launch, says ‘credit to OpenAI for…’

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Wired Google had been ‘thinking about AI from very beginning’.Picahi also noted that he pivoted the company to be ‘AI-first’ and spent a lot of money on AI research which resulted in their own LLM LaMDA. However, the Google CEO noted that while the company was thinking about AI in their products they needed the technology to mature a bit before using it.

He said, “Obviously, we were thinking about running large consumer products. But we definitely felt that the technology needed to mature a bit more before we put it in our products" The Google CEO was all praise for ChatGPT maker OpenAI noting that the Sam Altman-led company showed a ‘product-market fit’ when it made its chatbot public late last year.

He also said that it was an ‘exciting moment’ for him since Google was also building the underlying technology. He said, “So credit to OpenAI for the launch of ChatGPT, which showed a product-market fit and that people are ready to understand and play with the technology.

In some ways, it was an exciting moment for me, because we are building that underlying technology and deploying it across our products." However, the Indian-origin tech leader during the Wired interaction said that the technology arc for AI is long and he is ‘very comfortable' about where Google is positioned. On the competition in the AI space with OpenI and Microsoft, Pichai said that there has ‘always been competition’ and it is not new.