I understand CEOs need to promote their companies, but it's notable that Google - arguably the world's leading information technology company - fell behind in AI development under Pichai's leadership. Now he's touting Google's internal capabilities, yet Gemini is being outperformed by relative newcomers like Anthropic and OpenAI.
His position seems secure despite these missteps, which highlights an interesting double standard: there appears to be far more tolerance for strategic failures at the CEO level compared to the rigorous performance standards expected of engineering staff.
To be fair the paper that helped launch LLMs to a new level was from Google. “All You Need Is Attention”, Keras… They fell behind when it comes to marketing AI maybe…
His position seems secure despite these missteps, which highlights an interesting double standard: there appears to be far more tolerance for strategic failures at the CEO level compared to the rigorous performance standards expected of engineering staff.