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CEO Alphabet Sundar Pichai During the Google I/O Developers Conference, Mountain View, California, May 10, 2023.
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Google The executives encourage employees to act with greater urgency of using artificial intelligence as the company is looking for ways to cut costs.
This was a message at the All Hands meeting last week in which the CEO participated Sundar Pichai And Brian Salutsa, who manages the teams that build a technical basis for the flagship products of Google.
“Whenever you are experiencing an extraordinary investment period, you respond by adding numerous numbers, right?” According to writing, according to audio, the resulting CNBC. “But at this point AI I think we must achieve more by using this transition to ensure higher performance.”
In it Report of income Last week, Alphabet said he plans to spend $ 85 billion on capital costs in 2025, which compared to $ 75 billion he oriented at the beginning of the year. This is the topic that resonates the technology where the internet giants are racing for the construction of expensive data centers to launch large AI models and loads while reducing costs elsewhere.
“We compete with other companies in the world,” Pichi said at the meeting. “There will be companies that will become more effective at this point in terms of employee performance, and so I think it is important to focus on it.”
In June, Amazon CEO of Andy Yassi – Note The company’s corporate labor force is reduced in the coming years as it accepts more generative tools of AI and agents. In an e -mail, Jasi staff wrote that employees should learn how to use AI tools and experimenting and finding out “how to do more with Scrappier teams.”
MicrosoftPresident who oversees developers’s instruments, Julia Loussan, – told the staff In June, “use AI is no longer a must.” Shop CEO Tobi Dolls – Note In April, there is a “fundamental expectation” that employees use the II in their daily work, and, before asking “to obtain additional quantities and resources, teams must demonstrate why they can’t get what they want to do with AI.”
While in the last quarters the number of alphabet is noted in the last quarters, it is still lower than the peak since 2023, when the company had almost 191,000 staff. At the end of June the number was just over 187,000 Financial supply Last week. Google has eliminated about 6% of its labor in early 2023 and has since implemented cuts in different groups, offering incusions staff since the beginning of the year.
“We will experience a much higher investment period, and I think we need to be savings with our resources, and I would like to be more productive and effective as a company,” Pici said, adding that he was “very optimistic” about how Google works.
Google refused to comment on the comments.
“We feel urgency”
At the Saluzzo meeting, he highlighted a number of tools that the company builds for software engineers, or Swes to help “all on Google to be more.”
“We consider the urgency to be truly and urgently get the II in more workflowing processes to meet the upper needs so that you see a much faster increase in speed,” Saluts said.
Saluzzo said Google has AI’s portfolio available to employees, “so people can go faster.” He mentioned an internal site called “AI Savvy Google”, which has courses, tool sets and training sessions, including some for individual products.
Google Engineering Education team that develops courses for internal and external use, In partnership with Deepmind on a training session called “Construction with Twins”, which the company will soon be promoted, said Saluts. He also referred to the new internal coding tool called Cider, which helps software engineers with different aspects of the development process.
Since May, when the company first introduced the cider, 50% of users press the service weekly, said Saluts. As for AI Google’s internal tools, Saluts said that employees should “expect they are constantly improving” and that “they will become quite an integral part of the majority.”
Google made a great splash on the AI coding market earlier this month, tearing Key performers in high -profile launching windows as part of an agreement of $ 2.4 billion. Windsurf co -founder and CEO Varun Mohan joins Google with other senior research and development staff.
Write referred to Mohan’s “acquisition” and said at the meeting, about the founding team and Windsenzurf engineers, “I think they will also help in the field.”
