Google has recently announced its reformation to align its company structure with its newest focus: AI development. This is to answer the world’s growing demand for the development of responsible artificial intelligence technology.
In a recent blog post, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed Google employees about the important changes that the company will be undergoing. According to Pichai, the changes are meant to streamline the company processes and bolster its movement toward execution—something that the company has already been working on since 2023.
“These changes continue the work we've done over the past year to simplify our structure and improve velocity and execution—such as bringing together the Brain team in Google Research with teams in DeepMind, which helped accelerate our Gemini models; unifying our ML infrastructure and ML developer teams to enable faster decisions, smarter compute allocation, and a better customer experience, and bringing our Search teams under one leader,” Pichai said in a statement published on the major platform’s website.
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Google Is Undergoing Major Changes In Favor of AI Developments
The changes were presented to Google employees in four segments. The first segment is titled “Models and Research” where Pichai announced the consolidation of Google DeepMind (formed last year by merging the Google Brain team and DeepMind) with Google's Research team. This internal department will focus on building and developing AI models for the company.
The second segment entitled, “Responsible AI”, discussed the merging of Responsible AI teams in Research to Google DeepMind. This further emphasized Google’s efforts in developing Responsible AI and maintaining the company’s standardized process that ensures their products will always be evaluated by AI testing and Evals teams within the department.
“Beyond these changes, our teams have also been working hard to improve our processes and are making good progress:” Pichai noted. “We’re standardizing launch requirements for AI-powered features and increasing investments in “red team” testing for vulnerabilities and broader evaluations to help ensure responses are accurate and responsive to our users’ prompts. This is vital, ongoing work.”
The third segment is called “Platforms and Devices” which was announced as the merging of Google’s Devices and Services Platforms and Experiences (DSPA), its P&E department, and Google Research teams focused on computational photography and on-device intelligence. The new department referred to as Platforms & Devices was created with the purpose of developing better Android and Chrome ecosystems for clients and customers.
The last segment, “Mission First”, is Pichai’s final note to Google employees about the importance of putting the company’s goals before anything else that is trivial to the purpose of the company. According to Pichai, Google fosters a workplace culture that prioritizes open communication, and it is something integral to preserving Google’s main mission: organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible and useful for everybody.
“We have a duty to be an objective and trusted provider of information that serves all of our users globally. When we come to work, our goal is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Pichai stated. “That supersedes everything else and I expect us to act with a focus that reflects that.”
The Future of AI
Google’s AI platforms continue to be one of the world’s leading advancements in AI technology. Undeniably, its products and services are used by a large number of the global population. Google One boasts 100 million subscribers, Chrome is used by billions of people, and Android has surpassed 3 billion active devices. The recent internal reformation may usher in a new era of Google-developed AI tech, and the evolution of the AI landscape as a whole.