Hitting back at Microsoft chief Satya Nadella, Google CEO Sunder Pichai said “I would love to do a side-by-side comparison of Microsoft’s own models and our models any day, any time.”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has challenged Microsoft’s Satya Nadella to a unique face-off, pitching for duel between the AI models of the two tech giants. Earlier this year, Nadella, while speaking on the Norges Bank Investment Management’s podcast, had said that “Google should have been the default winner in the world of big tech’s AI race.”
Hitting back at the Microsoft chief, Sunder Pichai said “I would love to do a side-by-side comparison of Microsoft’s own models and our models any day, any time.”
The Google CEO was speaking at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit where he also addressed the rapid pace at which AI development is taking place and the changed coming to Google Search in 2025.
“We are getting ready for our next generation of models. I just think there’s so much innovation ahead. We are committed to being at the state of the art of this field.” said Pichai.
Pichai predicted that only “elite teams” will standout in the AI space in 2025, saying “when I look at 2025, the low-hanging fruit is gone. You know, the curve, the hill is steeper. I think the elite teams will stand out in 25 so I think it’s an exciting year from that perspective.”
On a query whether AI development would hit a wall in 2025, Pichai said “I think the models are definitely going to get better at reasoning, completing a sequence of actions more reliably… I think so you will see us push the boundaries.”
“I expect a lot of progress in 25, so I don’t fully subscribe to the wall notion, but you know, when you start out quickly scaling up, you can throw more compute and you can make a lot of progress, but you’re definitely going to need deeper breakthroughs as we go to the next stage. So, you can perceive it as there’s a wall, or you perceive it as there are some small barriers,” Sunder Pichai added.