Sundar Pichai

So it feels like eons ago.

You know, those three years feel like a long time ago now.

But I think it's staggering to see how much both the technology is making progress.

We've made progress as a company.

And I think it's a very dynamic moment in the industry.

I think our models are at the frontier in some areas.

And there are areas where we are behind the frontier.

And so it's a combination.

I think if you look at...

You know, overall capabilities, including text, multimodality, voice, or audio, reasoning in general, overall intelligence, I think we are very capable.

When it comes to agentic coding with tool use and instruction following, long horizon tasks, I think we are a bit behind at this moment.

but we are hard at work and the space is so dynamic.

All of the leading labs have their own pre-training cycles.

So you have these cadences and they may not exactly match up.

I think the moment is intense enough that if you're slightly off, you know,

Three months ago, people were like, we are ahead and no one could catch up with us.

And then now the conversation flips, but that's part of the territory of being at the frontier.

I think we are the only large company which is actually at that frontier, right?

So one way to think about it is there are, in this moment,

There are a couple of startups which have made extraordinary progress.