Google's CEO Sundar Pichai unfazed by AI challenges, sets future goals: Report

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Google cuts jobs globally, but expands hiring in India and Mexico Pichai admitted that errors pertaining to Gemini's image generation feature and said, "From the ground up we are retraining these models...as soon as it’s ready, we will get it out to people". Pichai revealed that the feature will be re-released in a few weeks. Pichai is set to share a vision for the company’s future at Google I/O--the company’s annual developers conference next week.

Google layoff: Fired employee posts ordeal on Linkedin— ‘longest 5 mins in life’ Further Pichai confronted a question on his leadership style. Amid all the strategic challenges Alphabet faces, several former and current employees have slammed Pichai for being "too cautious and consensus-driven". Pichai responded saying, "I think the larger the company is, you are making fewer consequential decisions, but they need to be clear and you have to point the whole company to that".

Google layoff: Sundar Pichai-led Alphabet's arm fires entire Python team— report Backing the significance of building consensus, the Alphabet CEO said, "...it allows you to have maximum impact behind those decisions". Last month, Google also fired dozens of engineers who protested the company’s cloud contract with the Israeli government, in what Pichai describes as an unacceptable disruption of daily business. “It has nothing to do with the matter or the topic they’re discussing.