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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, said in a recent interview that he is thinking about a research project artificial intelligence (AI), similar to the Manhattan Project during World War II, after the return of President-elect Trump in the White House next month
“I think there is an opportunity to work as a country together,” Pichai said in an interview with Semafor. published thursday night “These big physical infrastructure projects to accelerate progress is something we would be very excited about.”
His remarks come nearly a month after the bipartisan US-China Security and Economic Review Commission (USCC) proposed a similar initiative to finance the development of AI. The program would be part of a larger push to stay ahead of China’s technological developments.
“China has focused on the development of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum technologies, biotechnology and battery energy storage systems,” the congressional commission wrote in the report “The United States has also realized the importance of technological competition with China and has significantly altered the political environment.”
Google released its new AI model last year in an attempt to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and others. A new version, Gemini 2.0, was premiered on wednesday.
“With new advances in multimodality, such as native image and audio output, and the use of native tools, it will allow us to create new AI agents that bring us closer to our vision of a universal assistant “, Pichai. he said in a note at the launch of the model.
He told Semafor that “we already have enough capable models”.
“We can build many, many use cases on top of it,” the top Google executive continued. “That progress is going to be very real. With Gemini 2.0, we’re laying the groundwork for it to be more agentic.”
Earlier this month, Trump announced he selected Venture capitalist and key ally David Sacks will be the White House’s AI and cryptocurrency czar, a newly formed role.
i like other technology and business leadersPichai seeks to forge closer ties with Trump supporters his victory in last month’s election. The Google chief was also expected to meet with the president-elect on Thursday, The Information informed.
“In 2015, I put the company in this first AI direction. As part of that, we said we would take a deep and comprehensive approach to AI, from world-class research, building the infrastructure … from silicon,” Pichai said in the interview. “That’s the foundation.”
