Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome

In what’s become a bit of a Decoder tradition, Nilay Patel spoke with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in person after I/O. The conference this year was all about AI, particularly a slew of actual AI products, not just models and capabilities. To Sundar, this marks the beginning of a new era for search and the web overall. So it had to be asked: what happens to the web when AI tools and eventually agents do most of the browsing for us? #Podcast #Google #Technology

00:00 Introduction
00:18 Key announcements from Google I/O
01:56 The AI platform shift
04:13 The next phase of AI
15:23 Search and web platforms
20:29 The future of web development
21:46 AI Mode and publisher concerns
28:06 The role of agents in the future web
34:08 Antitrust pressures
39:04 Future of AI and robotics

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