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Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai

Photo: Photographer: Lukasz Kobus (European Commission), CC BY 4.0

Born1972-06-10

Occupationchief executive officer, computer scientist, executive

EmployerAlphabet Inc., Google

Positionchief executive officer

EducationPrince Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Stanford University, The Wharton School, Vanavani Matriculation Higher Secondary School

AwardsGlobal Citizen Awards, Padma Bhushan in trade and industry

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In terms of allocating TPUs, look, our first priority is making sure we are allocating what we need to compete at the frontier in terms of AGI development and so that is the foundation for everything we do.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
And just like AI Overviews, AI mode is driving an incremental increase in search queries overall, and we are now sending billions of clicks to websites every week through AI features in Search.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
On the speed of model releases, I do think you will see us continue to pick up pace.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
So take the time to find the thing that excites you more than anything else in the world, not the thing your parents want you to do, or the thing that all your friends are doing, or that society expects of you.
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Don't lose that impatience.
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If you can do that, history will remember the Class of 2020, not for what you lost, but for what you changed.
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You will make the world better in your own way, even if you don't know exactly how.
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The ability to ask a computer anything, anywhere, the very thing I've spent my last decade working on, is not amazing to you.
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The more access my family had to technology, the better our lives got.
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It's because they don't realize that the progress of one generation becomes the foundational premise for the next, and it takes a new set of people to come along and realize all the possibilities.
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Be open, be impatient, be hopeful.
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The long arc of history tells us we have every reason to be hopeful.
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The only thing that got me from there to here, other than luck, was a deep passion for technology and an open mind.
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The reason I know you'll prevail is because so many others have done it before you.
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My father spent the equivalent of a year's salary on my plane ticket to the US, so I could attend Stanford.
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It's very conventional for every generation to underestimate the potential of the following one.
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The important thing is to be open-minded, so that you can find what you love.
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It took me a while to realize that the Internet would be the single best way to make technology accessible to more people.
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In terms of allocating TPUs, look, our first priority is making sure we are allocating what we need to compete at the frontier in terms of AGI development and so that is the foundation for everything we do.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
And just like AI Overviews, AI mode is driving an incremental increase in search queries overall, and we are now sending billions of clicks to websites every week through AI features in Search.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
On the speed of model releases, I do think you will see us continue to pick up pace.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
So take the time to find the thing that excites you more than anything else in the world, not the thing your parents want you to do, or the thing that all your friends are doing, or that society expects of you.
YouTubeWatch6:34
Don't lose that impatience.
YouTubeWatch3:09
If you can do that, history will remember the Class of 2020, not for what you lost, but for what you changed.
YouTubeWatch6:57
You will make the world better in your own way, even if you don't know exactly how.
YouTubeWatch3:30
The ability to ask a computer anything, anywhere, the very thing I've spent my last decade working on, is not amazing to you.
YouTubeWatch2:49
The more access my family had to technology, the better our lives got.
YouTubeWatch3:43
It's because they don't realize that the progress of one generation becomes the foundational premise for the next, and it takes a new set of people to come along and realize all the possibilities.
YouTubeWatch2:07
Be open, be impatient, be hopeful.
YouTubeWatch6:52
The long arc of history tells us we have every reason to be hopeful.
YouTubeWatch1:50
The only thing that got me from there to here, other than luck, was a deep passion for technology and an open mind.
YouTubeWatch6:25
The reason I know you'll prevail is because so many others have done it before you.
YouTubeWatch1:17
My father spent the equivalent of a year's salary on my plane ticket to the US, so I could attend Stanford.
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It's very conventional for every generation to underestimate the potential of the following one.
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The important thing is to be open-minded, so that you can find what you love.
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It took me a while to realize that the Internet would be the single best way to make technology accessible to more people.
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And so picking up pace and releasing models almost at a monthly cadence is part of our road map as we are building Gemini for as well.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
For the next generation of frontier, you're going to need a much larger base models.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Gemini continues to be a key driver of growth and is deeply integrated across all of our cloud products, including Gemini Enterprise, data analytics, cybersecurity and Google Workspace.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
A lot of our Cloud serving is done on TPUs.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
It's been incredible to see that over 1.7 million unique viewers globally watched World Cup-related videos on YouTube during the FIFA World Cup 2026.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Our agentic development platform, antigravity allows anyone to build in the agent first era.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
So if you take an area like cybersecurity or data analytics, people are deploying solutions in which models are an ingredient in that solution, right?
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
We are now training Gemini 4, and we're being very ambitious with it.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
We have been shipping helpful new features like this at an incredible clip.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
So it feels like, if anything, over the past year, we've gotten more bullish on the opportunities ahead.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
So we're applying Gemini models really across our entire ad infrastructure, whether it's ad quality, advertising tools, adds and new AI experiences.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
So all of that looks like extraordinary opportunities with extraordinary returns for executing well on those opportunities.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Since launching at IO in May, there's been a 40% increase in daily active users, creating videos on the Gemini app.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Cloud revenue grew 82% powered by strong demand for AI infrastructure and AI solutions and Cloud backlog grew to $514 billion.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
So I think we are very, very well positioned there.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Demand for our models is translating to strong token usage across developers and enterprise customers, and we continue to be supply constrained, a sign of momentum and rapid adoption.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
More than 9 million developers are building each month with our models across our APIs and key developer products.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
We are also bringing the power of conversational AI directly into the YouTube experience.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
So Flash does very well on all of that.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
The early engagement is encouraging.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
And so I think if anything, the dynamics look healthier than where we were about a year ago.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Next, the Gemini app, which now has 950 million monthly active users with daily active users tripling in the last year.
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Over the last 12 months, more than 2,000 enterprises consumed over 100 billion tokens.
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We have started our most ambitious pretraining run yet for Gemini 4 and are excited by the progress we are seeing at the frontier.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
But given the extraordinary demand to balance the external demand even for most cloud customers, we are using both TPUs and GPUs, mainly for serving our models.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
In Q2, agent development kit, our framework for building and deploying enterprise AI agents reached nearly 70 million total downloads.
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First, our VIrgo network, which is designed to meet the needs of modern large-scale AI workloads.
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Waymo introduced its newest vehicle or high to public riders.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
We saw 17% revenue growth in search and other and YouTube ads grew 13%.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
We are seeing tons of demand for our workhorse Gemini Flash series because it hits the sweet spot of performance and cost.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Look, I mean, 2 things I'd say, first of all, we are -- we really think about the Pareto frontier.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
I am very excited by the progress I'm seeing internally on Gemini 4, and I'm confident that people will be pleased when we are putting it outside.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Wing has safely completed more than 1 million home deliveries, and we continue to grow our presence through partnerships with Walmart, DoorDash and Papa Jones.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Look, I think the frontier is incredibly dynamic space, and it's fiercely moving forward.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Our AI investments are redefining what's possible across every part of our business.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
And so that's what gives us the confidence to undertake those investments.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
We continue to make Search more helpful and Intuitive.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
We recently brought together AI Overview in AI mode into one seamless search experience that combines our frontier capabilities with the best of the web.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Our continued momentum is driven by our integrated AI portfolio, consisting of chips, models, data, security and agent platforms, all designed to work together.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
But it's very important to us to have the best frontier models out there as well as models, which are very performant and low cost.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Users love new agent features like Daily Brief and our personalized agent, Gemini Spark, which is now available in the U.S. and internationally.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
And third, our new agent optimized Axion CPU, provides 30% better performance per dollar compared to peer offerings.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
We are really focused, putting a lot of effort into Gemini 4.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
And so obviously, having our own models allows us to really optimize these solutions and bring an integrated offering, but we will also provide other models as part of these solutions.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
So we see the progress just in 6 weeks from the prior version to the new version, and you will see more continued iterations on that as well.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
We are seeing strong diversified demand across products, customers, geographies and industries.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Thank you so much for the question.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
So I would say from an ROIC standpoint, I think we are taking a full stack approach.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
These models have been downloaded over 900 million times, and our latest GM4 models have been downloaded over 300 million times since launching in April.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
And so the model is just an ingredient in those solutions.
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More than 140 million users engaged with Ask YouTube on the watch page in June 2026.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
And then we have our AI part campaigns like AI Max that help advertisers actually adapt and find the opportunities beyond keyword.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
And we are also seeing strong demand for TPUs stand-alone systems from other customers.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Thanks to our engineering and hardware optimizations this quarter, we reduced the cost of AI mode responses to its lowest level since launch even as we have brought more advanced AI capabilities.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
This really highlights how much people turn to Google in moments that matter.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
One of the strongest parts of our growth comes from the rapid adoption of our Gemini Enterprise platform.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
And we obviously use it extensively.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
We are driving growth with partners with transactions on Google Cloud Marketplace growing over 7x year-over-year.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
If you think about an area like customer service, you need really good voice quality, you need live streaming, you need the ability to reason on that or if you're a professional services firm, you need high-quality summarization, content generation, et cetera.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
Antigravity is a powerful tool for users and enterprises and it's completely accelerated how we build internally.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
We are winning new customers, more than doubling our acquisition velocity year-over-year.
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In terms of the frontier, we are both very committed and very confident of being at the frontier.
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Today, 90% of Fortune 100 are Google Cloud security users.
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We are deepening our relationships with existing customers who are expanding their usage and exceeding their commitments by more than 50%.
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We have a really exciting ads road map as well ahead of us on the brand side, on the direct response side.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
As a big football fan, I was particularly excited to see Search usage hit an all-time high during the World Cup this year.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
It's great to see the wide adoption of Gemini Enterprise with nearly 90% of Fortune 100 using it.
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This is the first vehicle powered by the sixth generation Waymo Driver and we'll welcome more riders in the coming months.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
And we have seen a more than 45% quarter-over-quarter increase in the number of AI workloads scanned and protected by our security platform.
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Nearly 500 cloud customers have each processed more than 1 trillion tokens in the last year and usage is so much deeper than that.
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We are continuing our strategy of investing in promising companies and internal efforts that bring pioneering AI research into the real world.
GOOGL Q2 2026 earnings call2026-07-22Transcript
All of this momentum is driving growth in our paid token usage.
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As just one example, a team in Chrome is now on track to accelerate delivery by 8 times compressing a 2-year time line into 3 months through model-driven refactoring.
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And the incremental opportunities they are bringing to us while a short-term cost over a few months may be very high in the lifetime of the deal as we bring more capacity on, is highly ROI positive, right?
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You may be just as frustrated by my generation's approach to climate change or education.
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By contrast, you grew up with computers of all shapes and sizes.
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On top of all that, I missed my family, my friends and my girlfriend, now my wife, back in India.
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We didn't get our first telephone till I was ten.
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I never imagined I'd be giving a commencement speech with no live audience from my backyard, but it's giving me a much deeper understanding for what our YouTube creators go through.
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They had to overcome new challenges, and in all cases, they prevailed.
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These two moments would profoundly shape the rest of my life.
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Fifty years ago, the class of 1970 graduated in the midst of Vietnam War.
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When you see the appetite and the desire for people to make their lives better by gaining access to technology, that is what compels me to go beyond.
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You have the chance to change everything.
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For the first time in my life, I could use a computer whenever I wanted to.
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I didn't have regular access to a computer until I came to America for graduate school.
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At a time when you should be celebrating all the knowledge you have gained, you may be grieving what you have lost.
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It was my first time ever on a plane.
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And as soon as I did, I changed course and decided to pursue my dreams at Google.
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It'll create the next technology revolution and enable you to build things my generation could never dream of.
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Believe me when I say I saw none of this coming when I first touched down in the state of California 27 years ago.
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And I certainly never thought I'd be sharing a virtual stage with the former president, a first lady, a Lady Gaga and a Queen B, not to mention BTS.
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I grew up without much access to technology.
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And our television, when we finally got one, only had one channel.
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A phone call back home was more than $2 a minute, and a backpack cost the same as my dad's monthly salary in India.
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And for all the talk about the warm California beaches, that water was freezing cold.
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And at that same moment, the Internet was literally being built all around me.
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So imagine how awestruck I am today to be speaking to you on a platform that has millions of channels.
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A hundred years ago, class of 1920 graduated into the end of a deadly pandemic.
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So when I graduated, I knew I wanted to do something to bring technology to as many others as possible.
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In bleak moments like these, it can be difficult to find hope.
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But when I eventually landed in California, things weren't as I had imagined.
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The year I arrived at Stanford was the same year the browser Mosaic was released, which would popularize the World Wide Web and the Internet.
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to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics
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I don't think this is the graduation ceremony any of you imagined.
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For me, it was technology.
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The summer I left was the same summer that a graduate student named Sergey Brin met a prospective engineering student named Larry Page.
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