On November 17, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, said that he expected China to be at the "frontier" of artificial intelligence and said it was important for the United States to cooperate with Asian countries in artificial intelligence regulation and innovation.
Pichai said in an interview on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in San Francisco that the scale of China's artificial intelligence projects is "shocking" and that "in some ways, China will be at the forefront of artificial intelligence. There is no doubt about it."
He added: "This requires the establishment of a strong cooperative relationship. Judging from my experience at Google in prioritizing the development of artificial intelligence technology, I believe that if China and the United States do not have in-depth exchanges in artificial intelligence and other aspects, it will be impossible to make progress in the long term. This kind of exchange must become an indispensable part of this process."
In addition to Pichai, executives from Microsoft, Citibank, Tesla and other large multinational companies attended the meeting.
Pichai compared the need for global cooperation on AI safety to the importance of working together to combat climate change. He explained that if there is a problem with one country's AI technology, then there will be a problem with everyone on the Internet.
The CEO also talked about Google's upcoming release of Gemini, a large language model trained on a massive data set that will compete with other state-of-the-art models to answer prompts with natural language responses. Pichai said that the company's current focus is to launch the "1.0" version of Gemini "as soon as possible" and then release subsequent versions with more complex technology.
"I'm very excited about the innovation that's coming, and we built the company for this moment," Pichai said.