Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's next leap depends on building "much larger base models"

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Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's next leap depends on building "much larger base models"

The Decoder · Jul 23, 2026, 11:19 AM UTC

Alphabet has raised its 2026 investment forecast to as much as $205 billion, saying demand continues to outpace spending. Google Cloud grew 82 percent in the second quarter. CEO Sundar Pichai says Google needs a larger base model for its next leap in AI and has kicked off an ambitious Gemini 4 training run.…

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