Editor’s be aware: At present, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared the next be aware to workers.
Hello Googlers,
It has been an thrilling few days for AI throughout our merchandise. We noticed NotebookLM with Audio Overviews go viral, added extra methods to discover data in Search and Lens, and launched a revamped Google Procuring for the AI period. We additionally simply shared an enormous milestone in our work to assist medical doctors use AI to detect diabetic retinopathy: 600,000 screenings and counting, and we’re increasing entry to extra folks throughout India and Thailand. There’s much more to come back.
AI strikes sooner than any expertise earlier than it. To maintain growing the tempo of progress, we have been making shifts to simplify our constructions alongside the best way, together with the creation of Google DeepMind and the becoming a member of of the Platforms & Gadgets groups. As a subsequent step, Prabhakar and I’ve been pondering by way of find out how to construction our Information & Data group for the Gemini period, and at this time we shared the next modifications:
- The Gemini app group led by Sissie will be a part of Google DeepMind underneath Demis. Because the identify suggests, the Gemini app is the direct client interface to the most recent and biggest Gemini fashions. Bringing the groups nearer collectively will enhance suggestions loops, allow quick deployment of our new fashions within the Gemini app, make our post-training work proceed extra effectively and construct on our nice product momentum.
- The Assistant groups targeted on units and residential experiences will transfer to Platforms & Gadgets to allow them to sit nearer to the product surfaces they’re constructing for and convey our AI-powered house initiatives into one group and give attention to enhancing consumer expertise.
In parallel to this, Prabhakar has determined it’s time to make an enormous leap in his personal profession. After 12 years main groups throughout Google, he’ll return to his laptop science roots and tackle the function of Chief Technologist, Google. On this function, he’ll companion carefully with me and Google results in present technical route and management and develop our tradition of tech excellence. Nick Fox, a longtime Googler and member of Prabhakar’s management group, will likely be stepping as much as lead Okay&I, which incorporates our Search, Advertisements, Geo, and Commerce merchandise.
Prabhakar’s management journey at Google has been exceptional, spanning Analysis, Workspace, Advertisements, and Okay&I. He led the Gmail group in launching Sensible Reply and Sensible Compose as early examples of utilizing AI to enhance merchandise, and took Gmail and Drive previous 1 billion customers. Throughout Okay&I, Prabhakar and group have achieved important progress and innovation: from launching AI Overviews, a groundbreaking development in Search that advantages lots of of thousands and thousands of customers worldwide to introducing new search modalities like Circle to Search, video understanding, and “store what you see” in Lens — all whereas enhancing core Search performance. Maps and Procuring have remodeled with AI-driven options like immersive view and digital try-on. And in Advertisements, we’ve made actual progress with AI-powered advert codecs and streamlined marketing campaign administration, whereas persevering with to innovate with Efficiency Max to empower thousands and thousands of companies.
I’m so grateful to Prabhakar for the robust basis and management bench he’s constructed throughout Okay&I. That features his unbelievable senior leaders and Nick who is able to hit the bottom operating in his new function as SVP of Okay&I!
Over the previous few years, Nick has been instrumental in shaping Google’s AI product roadmap and collaborating carefully with Prabhakar and his management group on Okay&I’s technique. And all through his profession, Nick has demonstrated management throughout practically each side of Okay&I, from Product and Design in Search and Assistant, to our Procuring, Journey, and Funds merchandise. He was additionally a pioneering chief in Advertisements, the place he helped set up a rigorous high quality and user-focused method that is still key to our success. Nick has launched modern client merchandise like Google Fi and spearheaded advanced initiatives corresponding to RCS messaging. I steadily flip to Nick to sort out our most difficult product questions and he persistently delivers progress with tenacity, pace, and optimism.
Congratulations to Nick, and a heartfelt thanks to Prabhakar for his management by way of quite a few expertise shifts and for constructing a robust basis for the long run.
– Sundar
