Google Sharpens Focus To Regain Edge In AI Race

With Brin in lead, it aims to catch up with new tools and shift in strategy

- Shouvik Das

On Tuesday, Google chief Sundar Pichai opened his keynote at the company's keenly-watched annual developer conference, I/O, with a statistic—the number of developers working with the tech giant's artificial intelligence tools has swelled 5x in the past year to 7 million.

Pichai, accompanied by a slew of key executives, made over 15 announcements across all fronts—a new AI model with more reasoning capability for better generative performance, an 'AI Mode' for its mammoth search engine, an AI-driven 3D video conferencing platform called Beam, live speech translation on Google Meet, a network of AI agents for businesses called 'Project Mariner', a new video generator called 'Flow' that can also create matching audio with coherent dialogues, live search of everything around, and more.