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Google CEO Pichai urges US to lead in AI development

Monday 13 - 14:20
By: Dakir Madiha
Google CEO Pichai urges US to lead in AI development

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, called on the United States to take the lead in artificial intelligence during a Sunday appearance on 60 Minutes. He advocated developing AI boldly and responsibly so every American benefits. The interview capped a flurry of AI advances for Google, including rapid upgrades to its Gemini models and expanded open-source offerings.

Google accelerated its AI trajectory with Gemini 2.5 Pro in March 2025, a reasoning model that topped the LMArena leaderboard with a one-million-token context window. It launched Gemini 3 Pro in November 2025 and Gemini 3 Flash in December. Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini 3.1 Pro in February 2026, more than doubling prior reasoning performance to 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2 and leading 12 of 18 benchmarks, with native SVG and 3D code rendering.

On April 2, Google released Gemma 4, its strongest open models yet under Apache 2.0 license. Built on Gemini 3 research, the four sizes run from mobile devices to data center GPUs, supporting agentic workflows, vision, audio, and over 140 languages.

Google faces stiff competition from OpenAI's GPT-5 series and Anthropic's Claude models on coding and creative reasoning benchmarks. It countered by embedding Gemini across products like Personal Intelligence linking Gmail, Drive, and Agenda, plus Search Live in over 200 countries since March 2026. A January deal with Apple will base future Apple Foundation Models on Gemini for an enhanced Siri later this year.

Google I/O 2026, set for May 19-20, fuels talk of Gemini 4 previews, though none confirmed. Alphabet plans $175-185 billion in 2026 capital spending, nearly double 2025's, mostly for AI infrastructure. Pichai stressed to 60 Minutes that the stakes extend beyond products.

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