Google CEO Says Search Engine Will “Change Profoundly” In 2025

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, said that Google as a search engine will “change profoundly” next year, during an interview at the New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

According to the New York Times, the CEO addressed AI development, competitor’s performance and the expectations the company has for the next year.

The tech giant has been facing criticism regarding its dominance, and concerns regarding its performance compared to other AI startups and the current antitrust cases the company is handling, but Pichai showed optimism.

“I think you’ll be surprised even early in ’25 the kind of newer things search can do compared to where it is today,” said Pichai during an interview with journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin. He also acknowledged the challenges the company faces as AI startups like OpenAI and Perplexity have developed their own advanced AI-powered search engines.

Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, said earlier this year that Google is falling behind in the AI race, and Pichai referred to this as well: “I would love to do a side-by-side comparison of Microsoft’s own models and our models any day, any time.” He also implied that they have not developed their own models as they rely on OpenAI’s technology.

Pichai assured that their current main focus is AI and that they remain confident in the near future.

Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, projected a rosy image of his company’s leadership in artificial intelligence, rejecting criticism from rivals and downplaying antitrust fights that could force the technology giant to split itself up. https://t.co/IQtZK6H3It pic.twitter.com/9SgTro9sNR

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This week, Google released it’s new AI video tool Veo and announced that next week users will be able to test the newest version of Imagen 3, the AI image generator tool.