On November 16th local time, at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting held in San Francisco, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that China would become a leader in the field of artificial intelligence and that the United States needed to cooperate with China in AI regulation and innovation.
In a public interview at the conference, Pichai stated that China's scale in the AI field is "amazing": "To some extent, as a certain fact, China will be at the forefront of the AI field
Pichai added that in order to promote the development of AI, it is necessary to establish a strong cooperative relationship between China and the United States: "In the long run, in fields like AI, progress can only be achieved through in-depth exchanges between the United States and China... This is inevitably an important component of work
Pichai also compared the importance of global joint regulation of AI to addressing climate change. Pichai believes that AI technology will rapidly expand globally, so its security issues require joint attention from all countries: "Just like global warming, if AI issues in one country, other countries on the network will also be affected
In the interview, Pichai also talked about Google's undisclosed large model Gemini. Pichai stated that the company is currently committed to releasing the 1.0 version of Gemini as soon as possible, followed by a more complex version: "I am very excited about the upcoming innovation, and we founded Google for this moment
At the I/O Developer Conference in May this year, Google revealed for the first time that it is developing a universal AI Gemini. According to previous foreign media reports, Gemini aims to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT and will combine the technology behind the AI Go tool AlphaGo with the big model, which may have stronger abilities in planning and problem-solving than GPT-4.
Previously, according to external speculation, Google was expected to launch Gemini later this year. However, just after Pichai's interview, foreign media reported that Google would delay the release of Gemini until the first quarter of next year. If the news is true, it will not be conducive to the competition between Google, Microsoft, and their partner OpenAI in the AI field, especially when Google's stock price plummeted due to the slowdown in cloud service growth in the previous fiscal quarter, but Microsoft and OpenAI are facing continuous good news in the AI field.