Mountain View on May 10, 2023, the CEO of the alphabet during the Google I/O Developers Conference in California.
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Google Officers are motivated to act with more urgency in their use of artificial intelligence because the company looks for cost cuts.
This was the message in an all-hands meeting last week, including the CEO. Beautiful pichai And Brian Saluzo, who runs the teams that produce a technical foundation for Google’s major products.
“Anytime you go through the period of extraordinary investment, you respond by adding lots of headcounts, right?” Pichai said, according to the audio received by CNBC. “But in this AI moment, I think we have to complete more by taking advantage of this infection to run high productivity.”
In its Earning report Last week, Alphabet said that it plans to spend $ 85 billion on capital expenditure in 2025, the first target in the year above $ 75 billion. It is a subject that is echoing in technology, where internet giants are running to create expensive data centers to run large AI models and workloads, as well as cuts expenses elsewhere.
“We are competing with other companies in the world,” Pichai said in the meeting. “There will be companies that will become more efficient through this moment in terms of employee productivity, which is why I think it is important to focus on it.”
In June, Heroic CEO Andy Jassi Said The company’s corporate work will shrink in the coming years as it adopts more genetic AI tools and agents. Employees in an email, Jassi wrote that employees should learn how to use and use the AI tool and find out how to “do more with the scrapier teams.”
MicrosoftDeveloper Tools, Chairman to oversee Julia Lucon, Told the staff In June that “using AI is no longer optional.” Shopify CEO Tobi enjoy Said In April, there is a “fundamental expectation” that employees are using AI in their day-to-day work and, “For more headcounts and resources”. Before asking, teams should display why they cannot find what they want to use AI. ,
While the headcut of the alphabet is still in the recent quarters, it is still below the summit since 2023, when the company had 191,000 full -time employees. According to Alphabet’s quarterly, this number was just more than 187,000 in the end of June. Financial filing Last week. Google abolished its 6% workforce in early 2023 and has been cut into various groups since then Procurement Employees from the beginning of the year.
“We are going to undergo a lot of investment periods and I think we have to be frugal with our resources, and I will try to be more productive and efficient as a company,” Pichai said, she is “very optimistic” how Google is doing.
Google refused to comment on the comment.
‘We feel urgent’
In the meeting, Saluzo highlighted several devices, which is made for company software engineers, or SWES, to help everyone on Google “.
“We really feel immediately to meet the need for more than the coding workflows to quick and immediate AI to address the top requirements so that you can see the growth in the velocity very fast,” Saluzo said.
Saluzo said that Google has a portfolio of AI products available to employees “so people can go fast.” He referred to an internal site called “AI Savi Google”, which includes courses, toolkit and learning sessions, including some individual product areas.
Google’s engineering education team, which develops courses for internal and external use, Participated with Deepamind on a training called “Building with Gemini”, which the company will soon start promoting, said Saluzo. He also referred to a new internal AI coding tool called cider that helps software engineers with various aspects of the development process.
Since May, when the company introduced the cider for the first time, 50% of the users tap on the service on a weekly basis, the Saluzo said. Regarding Google’s internal AI Tools, Saluzo said that employees should “expect to improve continuously” and “Most Swee would become a beautiful integral part of the work.”
Google made a big splash in the AI coding market earlier this month, Scratch The high-profile startups perform a major execution as part of the $ 2.4 billion deal. Windsurf co-founder and CEO Varun Mohan is joining Google along with other senior research and development staff.
Pichai mentioned Mohan’s “acquisition” and said at the meeting, “I think they will help a lot in the field as well,” Windsurf’s founding team and engineers. “
