Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a recent interview that after President-elect Trump returns to the White House next month, he will use artificial intelligence (AI) similar to the Manhattan Project during World War II. He said that he is paying attention to the research project.
“I think we have an opportunity to work together as a country,” Pichai said in an interview with Semaphore. published Thursday night. “These large-scale, physical infrastructure projects that accelerate progress are extremely exciting to us.”
His remarks came nearly a month after the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) proposed a similar effort to fund AI development. The program will be part of a larger push to stay ahead of China's technological development.
“China is focused on developing emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum technology, biotechnology, and battery energy storage systems,” the parliamentary committee wrote in its report. “The United States has similarly recognized the importance of technological competition with China and has significantly changed its policy environment.''
Last year, Google released a new AI model to compete with the likes of OpenAI's ChatGPT. The new version, Gemini 2.0, Released on Wednesday.
“New advances in multimodality and the use of native tools, such as native images and audio output, will enable us to build new AI agents that bring us even closer to our universal assistant vision,” said Pichai. . I said it in a note at the time of model release.
“We already have a model that is good enough,” he told Semaphore.
“We can build so many use cases on top of that,” the top Google executive continued. “The progress will be very real. In Gemini 2.0, we are laying the foundations for becoming more agentic.”
Earlier this month, President Trump announced the selection of venture capitalist and key ally David Sachs for a new White House AI and crypto position.
Like other technology and business leaders, Pichai has sought to forge a closer relationship with Trump following his election victory last month. The head of Google was also scheduled to meet with the president-elect on Thursday, The Information reported. reported.
“In 2015, I took the company in an AI-first direction. As part of that, we took a thorough, full-stack approach to AI, from world-class research to building infrastructure. I said I would do it…” Pichai said in an interview. “That's the basics.”
