Even Google’s CEO needs help keeping up with Google.
On the Sources podcast released Wednesday, Sundar Pichai described to host Alex Heath how he delegates some of the information-gathering that comes with running the tech giant.
“It could easily take me an hour a day to kind of catch up, what’s happened in the last 24 hours, right?” Pichai said. “But now I have agents running which summarize and bring that information to me. I can still go deeper, and I do so often.”
Pichai said that his AI agents give him a way to “understand the model development arc,” figure out how Google’s computing resources are being used, and follow threads spread across numerous internal chat groups without having to read through every conversation himself.
“Similarly, there are agents with telemetry into our compute usage by product area, efficiency, utilization,…