The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet. He sits down with John and Elad Gil to discuss Google’s resurgence in the AI race, managing a massive $180 billion CapEx budget, and why 2026 is the year of the supply crunch. They cover the constraints of memory and power, why he believes the US economy will grow significantly due to AI, and the internal cultural shift back to "Googley" optimism. Sundar also shares details on long-term bets like data centers in space, why he wishes he had funded Waymo even faster, and the small thing inside Google that still ignites his passion for building.
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Key moments
00:00:18 The history of Google and AI
00:05:17 Speed and Search
00:12:12 Google’s AI comeback
00:27:03 Stripe network intelligence
00:27:53 Bottlenecks
00:41:25 Capital allocation
01:00:44 How Google works