Sundar Pichai says AI needs speed, affordability, and broad deployment
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the future of AI isn't just about bigger models, it's about making AI faster, more affordable, and available to billions.
Efficiency and scale of deployment matter as much as raw model size, he shared ahead of Google I/O.
Google's Gemini 3.5 flash faster cheaper
Google's new Gemini 3.5 Flash delivers almost top-tier performance but is four times faster and up to one-third to one-half the cost than frontier models.
AI use on Google platforms has skyrocketed: monthly token processing jumped from 480 trillion to a massive 3.2 quadrillion in just a year.
Plus, new tools like Gemini Spark (for automating tasks) and Gemini Omni (for multimodal content) are rolling out, while Google teams up with big names like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft to push AI even further.