Sundar Pichai on AI
8 quotes from Sundar Pichai on the wall, 2018 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include CNBC, Google (The Keyword), Sundar Pichai (X). Topics: hype, culture, money. Open on the wall.
- 2026
Companies are already blowing through their annual token budgets, and it's only May
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, speaking at Google I/O 2026 about rising enterprise AI costs.
- 2025
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on X, responding to news that the Gemini app passed 5 billion AI-generated images, sharing his own Nano Banana image, September 2025.
No one sends traffic to the web in the way we do
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, in an interview with Nilay Patel on The Verge's Decoder podcast, May 2025, responding to criticism that AI Overviews hurt publishers.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome
- 2024
Internalize the urgency of this moment
Sundar Pichai at Google's 2025 strategy meeting with employees on 18 December 2024, audio obtained by CNBC.
Google CEO Pichai tells employees to gear up for big 2025: 'The stakes are high'
That's completely unacceptable and we got it wrong
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in a letter to staff published by Semafor on February 27, 2024, addressing biased and inaccurate Gemini AI image outputs.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls AI tool's responses 'completely unacceptable'
- 2023
This moment is uncomfortably exciting
Sundar Pichai, in a company-wide email after Bard's rushed launch, described the moment for Google's AI efforts, as reported by CNBC and India Today, February 2023.
- 2022
Something more profound than electricity or fire
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, speaking on AI at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2018.
AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating - vox.com
- 2018
More profound than electricity or fire
Sundar Pichai, 2018.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is more profound than electricity or fire