During the Q1 earnings call, Alphabet and Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, claimed that the company has deployed AI for a significant chunk of programming. From 25% in late 2024, Google’s usage of AI-generated coding is up by over 30% now amid OpenAI and Chinese DeepSeek rivalry.
Responding to an investor call from Mark Shmulik of Bernstein on how Google’s Gemini AI’s internal deployment, Pichai remarked, “Internally, there has been an extraordinary amount of focus and excitement, both because I think the early use cases have been transformative in nature and because I think it still feels like early days and there’s a long way to go.” He further assured the investors that Google is “continuing to make a lot of progress there in terms of people using coding suggestions.”
Pichai added,
I think the last time I said the number was, like, 25% of code that’s checked in. It involves people accepting AI-suggested solutions. The number is well over 30% now.
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Responding to a query on AI-powered search from Ken Gawrelski of Wells Fargo, the Google boss stated that “Within Search, AI Overviews are scaling up and working for our entire user base, but an AI Mode is the tip of the tree for us pushing forward on an AI-forward experience.” He added, “There will be things that we discover there that will make sense in the context of AI Overviews. So I think it will flow through to our user base.”
Pichai continued, “But you almost want to think of what the most advanced 1 million people are using Search for, the most advanced 10 million people and then how 1.5 billion people use Search for. And we want to innovate and so I think this allows us to do that.” He continued, “But the true north through all of this is user feedback, user satisfaction, and user experience. And so that will determine where this all works out in the future.”
#TechWithMC | Over 30% of Google’s new code now AI-generated; working on deeper coding experiences: Sundar Pichai @tsuvik reports 👇https://t.co/8OGvOU7mK3#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SundarPichai
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