Sundar Pichai & Marc Benioff: Future of AI

0:05 All right, Ohio gozaimasu and good morning everybody. Did anybody like Metallica last night? What about Benson Boone? Did you see him? Great. Yeah, Metallica. They were really on. I'm tired. Yeah, I really slept with one eye open last night. Um okay, we have a great uh morning for you. Are you all excited to meet Sundar?

0:36 All right, Sundar, where are you? We need you, Sundar. Come on out, Sundar. Here he comes. Sundar, everybody. Good to see you. All [applause] right, man. Well. Great. All right, we're so thrilled to have Sundar this morning. And it is going to be a great interview [clears throat] we're going to do here. We're going to spend 38 minutes, uh 40 minutes, as much time as you want. Well, as much time as you want. So, it's true. It is as much time as I want.

1:08 Okay. Very, very excited to be here. It's a beautiful theater. It is a beautiful You know, I we're talking backstage. This was a famous theater for me because all of the Apple product launches that I loved were all here. Yeah. And Steve Jobs was here and I kind of feel like he left a little bit of his magic behind on the stage and it's just a great place to be. Good karma. Absolutely. So, anyway, Sundar, you know, we know each other very well and we have been to many, many different kind of programs together and also a lot of personal events, some wonderful happy situations, some sad situations. We've had every possible situation together.

1:54 And I think, you know, when I was thinking about this interview on the way in, what occurred to me was, um, you know, does everybody really know you? And I would really like just to take a few minutes and try to let people know who you are because, as I was saying backstage, you're from my very favorite part of India, from the south. Um, everybody knows I like a good masala dosa. And Makes two of us, though.

2:25 One thing I love about the south is, you know, the the the the women are in charge of the household, the mothers are in charge, and, um, and the gurus are the women. Um, I met an incredible guru in Trivandrum, you know, in Kerala, in the backwaters of the Arabian Sea, named Amachi. It was amazing, had a huge impact on my life. But that idea of growing up in South India and the the values of South India, the mystique and the energy and the matriarchy. How how Tell us about that and then, you know, let's let's and then let's get you all the way from that point when you were there in IIT and and Stanford, but first let's go back to South India and then just give everyone a flavor for Sundar.

3:11 Wow, I didn't expect it to stop there, but, uh, definitely a trip down, uh, nostalgia. I mean, you're right, it's a special place, obviously, and you know, my mom had, uh, you know, I learned my love of reading from my granddad, her father, and my mother. Uh, you know, she used to be a voracious reader. Uh, she you know, she with the financial circumstances never went past high school, but she was she used to read a lot. And so, that's where my love of learning and knowledge kind of, uh, you know, came.

3:45 I think growing up there, you know, obviously strong family values, extraordinary focus on learning and knowledge and acquiring, uh, wisdom over the years and it's not an accident. I think it kind of led me to Google over time given what our mission is and so on. But I you know yeah I had to wait for every piece of technology for a long time in my life. Waited 5 years to get a rotary phone and when the phone came >> 5 years for rotary phone. It was a government made it at that time and there was a long waiting list.

4:15 But the but the minute the phone came to the house we were one of the first in the neighborhood. People would come to the house call their families. It kind of like created a community around it. So for me it was you know incredible to see how getting access to technology can have this profound shift in your life. I had to wait for a long time to get access to a computer. So that's what led me to this journey.

4:40 >> were you when you first had access to a computer? You know I'd seen and had like you know you could get an hour of use maybe like once every two to three months. But when I came to Stanford is when could walk down to a lab and there were workstations and like I could open Emacs and I was you know it was a whole world. >> That's where access was opportunity. >> Yeah, that's right and that's what always reinforced to me that you know all of us are in this world of you trying to give people access to technology and and you see that step change that comes with it. And and it's a journey and with AI I think we have a chance to do a step even more.

5:19 You mentioned South India. I called the Prime Minister of India this on Sunday night. You know I used to take this train >> Modi. Prime Minister Modi. I used to take this train through the south of India and there's this town called Visakhapatnam. It's a beautiful coastal town growing up and we announced our Yeah, there you go. >> [applause] >> We announced our largest ever AI investment outside the US. A $15 billion 1 gigawatt plus data center 80% powered by clean energy with subsea cables going in.

5:56 That that the chance to transform a region like that with that with a kind of investment it really meant a lot to be able to call the Prime Minister who really cares about developing the country. And this has been his vision. I know you know him well, too. And so anyway, it's extraordinary to see the impact of all this. Very exciting. And it's a great way to give back. So you really see that this kind of technology giving access to even to be developed in this I nod to South India there. Yeah. Very good.

6:25 It sounded like there's a lot of folks here from India or in Visakhapatnam. Stand up if you're from India, actually. Would you well be welcomed? Wow, look at that. >> [cheering and applause] >> Thank you, everybody. Welcome. So okay, well, let's let's talk about that. So here we are. I I well, I think I've started the conversation in the right way. Would you agree? That we have to connect to India to understand you.

6:55 And here you are. You're growing up in South India. You're getting You're getting a vision for technology, the idea that access is opportunity. Um you're now in pursuit of IIT, probably the fine one of the finest institutes in India for technology. You know, when when did you make that decision that technology was going to be your passion? Look, I mean I I was uh uh very interested in physics. I was fascinated with semiconductors and computers. And so to me it was literal, and I literally wanted to be This place was called Silicon Valley, so it's the best advertising ever, right?

7:31 You know, as a kid growing up, you know, you're interested in semiconductors. It's wonder that you could turn sand in the into this thing uh which is the Uh, you know, substrate of uh the digital age. And so for me, I literally wanted to be in Silicon Valley because that's what I was interested in. And you know, I was very inspired by the One Laptop Per Child project from MIT. What Negroponte was working on. This is the One Laptop Per Child where they're going to try to put this kind of low-cost computer in the hands of every child in the world that would especially targeting India. Yeah. And it was going to be a very, very low-cost computer was It was Nicholas was really the visionary behind it. That's right. And I you know, I have to you know, in some ways I I can directly link that to my work on Chromebooks many years later. Right. So, the fact that >> That must have been now that I mean, One Laptop Per Child, that was in the mid-90s, I think. Right? 94, 95, 96. I I don't remember the exact dates.

8:36 You were right and around the time I came to the US, but what's extraordinary is his vision of making that possible. Uh, I think made a lot of progress, quite couldn't get there. But you know, for me it always you know, it later played out not just in Chromebooks, but we eventually ended up giving pretty much everyone a mobile phone, which is a computer in their hands with Android, too. You know, now you have all around the world, be it in the US, be it in Brazil, be it in Indonesia, be it in India, Africa. Was there also a browser on that Android phone? That's right. What's that word I was saying? There's a browser on that phone.

9:12 >> There's a browser called Chrome. >> there. We're going to get there. Yeah. Looking forward to it. >> I'm going there. Oh, I'm looking forward to it. Uh, look I but but I think that inspired me. And and so in some ways uh, you know, the chance and the thing that attracted me to Google was literally the mission statement. And I I'm very serious about it. The phrase to make information universally accessible and useful. That phrase is why I joined Google.

9:44 Cuz it resonated so much with me. Right? This is about giving access to information, knowledge to everyone in the world. And and and that journey continues across all of us. I think AI is the ultimate expression of that, right? It's really giving a true knowledge, a collaborator, a companion, however you want to think about it. The access to everyone in the world regardless of where you're from. Uh and and and so it's a great equalizer, I think.

10:14 Well, it's an amazing vision now and you're in pursuit of IIT with this inspiration. You go sail through IIT. It's amazing. And then somehow you know you want to go to Stanford. Was that When did that occur? I mean, you know, you have I mean, it's a you know, it's a fortunate opportunity and uh for me, you you know, I had the chance to go to a few places. Stanford happened to be in Silicon Valley, so it was uh it was uh everything was uh straightforward. The only thing I felt maybe misled was the professor who emailed me said it's really nice and warm and beautiful weather.

10:51 But I think kind of coming from South India when people say warm, I remember the first time I went to the ocean and I was so excited and I went into the water and I was like, "No, this is not warm." This is not This is not the backwaters of the Arabian Sea. No, okay. It's a bit different. Having said that, you know, it is the birthplace of uh semiconductors and uh the story surround you know, Fairchild and National I mean, you you see the history back and uh so it's a real special place. So, I felt home when I came here.

11:24 Well, you're you're helping me remember all of my great times in South India, too, and the warmth and the energy and the mysticism and all that. and remember a lot of times being there and uh spending time, you know, with Amachi and also a friend of mine there, Amrita Swarup Ananda as well. And it's just an incredible place, and it is a it feels a long way from here. Yeah. But I guess it's it's actually much closer because here we are together right now. And so now here you are, you've kind of gone through that whole experience. You're all the way to IIT, and now you're on your way to Stanford. What are your What is your family thinking at this point?

12:04 Uh look, I um I mean I mean now you step back, you know, I I just became an empty nester this year, and you have you have this incredible access to your kids, and it's still very very hard. I can't believe in those days uh when I came here, it was probably $2.30 per minute to call back home. Yes. Right? And and uh so you know, if you ever think the the curve of how technology makes things more accessible, yeah, it was you know, used to write letters back then because it was so expensive to call. Now, you know, I'm fortunate enough, you know, I see my parents regularly, and I'm uh you know, staying close touch with them.

12:45 But, you know, they talk about, you know, just just like you kind of disappear from their uh life. But so I'm glad we we're working all, you know, I look at there's a product we're working on called uh Google Beam, and which really when you when two people talk, you feel like physically they are in the same place. Part of the reason I'm motivated by all that is like you know, you you know, you realize people today, you know, imagine veterans being deployed and being away from their families or something like that. So, I think it's important to connect people.

13:19 All right. So, here we are. Now we're at Stanford. The favorite son has left the home. There's it's a But a distance. Yeah. Um you're lonely it sounds like at Stanford. Uh, you're missing the masala dosa. You're You're in Palo Alto. You know, freezing. I was missing my girlfriend then my wife now. >> girlfriend now your wife, very nice. She was she went to uh college with me and so yeah, all of that. Very good. >> I spent all my money calling her pretty much, yeah.

13:50 Literally true. Very good. Do you want to say more about that? What were those calls like? At some point we have to bring it to Agent Force and >> [laughter] >> We really don't actually. This is better than that. We've been talking about that for days. I I have been talking about that. >> Yeah, we're already on board the Agent Force phenomenon. We got that. But this is more interesting. The girlfriend, the wife, the phone calls.

14:16 Freezing in Palo Alto. Uh, I I definitely didn't expect uh all of this so Bathing bathing in the Pacific Ocean. Which which you know, I only did it once by the way. Uh, super cold. Still haven't quite uh quite gotten used to it. Uh, Where are we now? Look, I mean uh But no, I think it's important that we talk First of all, we have a great you can see we have a great connection, number one. But number two, this is the this is the Sundar I know. So that's what I'm trying to do is I think a lot you know, my like I said, at my right hand I was just thinking to myself a lot of people they just don't have the opportunity to realize the person that I know so well, your heart, you know, your your your your life, your connection.

15:02 And you know, now okay, so anyway, let's just get back to the story. You're in Stanford now, right? And now all of a sudden you kind of see this new world and it is a different world. You're you are in Palo Alto. It's it's not just cold. There's a whole thing going on, right? And so what is your biggest surprise now that you're in Palo Alto besides the weather? Oh, I mean look I um I think you know I mean we take this for granted uh in in the valley and in a place like Stanford and uh I mean it's I mean America's truly a land of opportunity in a way that phrase I think very few people really understand you know deeply and uh it's extraordinary uh you can come here and you know if you're willing to work hard pursue your dreams uh anything is possible right? And it was kind of obvious to me once I came in uh you know if you're passionate about something you meet other people who are passionate about it. Uh this is a place of dreamers and builders. You're excited about something people want to build on that idea.

16:07 Uh you know it's almost like they want to compost that with you. That is so unique uh unique about about the place we live in and so that struck me as a you know this this optimism uh this real desire to make the world better. Uh you know and and sometimes we all are so used to it sometimes I think you know we get jaded with technology or something we forget that. I feel it now when I travel around the world and you go to places where they don't have access to this technology they so want to be a part of it. Here we have it right? And and and you know I think we've gone through these waves but that is the essence of this place I think and you brought it back to the is the theater in which Steve Jobs did some of those uh you know path breaking announcements but I think that's the spirit of this place. I felt it at Stanford um and I I feel it today.

17:03 So now here you are you're you're feeling it. You are connected to the energy of Silicon Valley the magic of what's happening. Stanford kind of the heart of it all near the garages where these great companies have started like HP like Apple. You're starting to meet these cast of characters. It's like going to Disneyland, right? You're meeting Donald Duck. You're meeting You're meeting Mickey Mouse in person for the first time. And now you're in Stanford and are you at this point thinking Okay, I heard about this company Google.

17:34 It's 2004. This is where I'm heading. Is that the Is that the direction at this point? >> um I was in I was [clears throat] in Stanford in the '90s and uh you know, this was the time uh when uh Mosaic and late you know, Mosaic had launched and uh ironically, I think Larry and Sergey were at Stanford at the same time. I don't think I knew them or uh we didn't overlap. >> You didn't know them at the time.

17:58 >> Uh no, I didn't know them at the time. You know, my I I was I was focused on different things. I was very interested in semiconductors. That was my area of research. Uh that's what I was working on. Uh I was so excited to have access to all that. I almost didn't realize there was this thing called the internet which was happening. So, but you know, a few years later uh you know, had the chance to get to know a few people and when the internet was really taking off when I I started using Google early uh the first time I started using it, I realized this is going to give more access to information to more >> be what? '96, '97, '98?

18:40 >> wasn't there. Google started in '99. I first used it in about 2000. Right, 2000, 2001. And but I could instantly feel like you have this thing which is going to give access to technology to more people than anything before. Uh you could use it. You could feel it. The fact that And where was that first time that you used Google in 2001? Where were you? Uh I was I was still in Palo Alto. Um you know, but I was uh like working in the semiconductor industry. It's it's interesting to see back as we're going through this moment in the AI, everything is coming back to chips, uh you know, which which turns out to be the uh might be the real driver of intelligence, right? And and uh and it's not an accident that Google works on TPUs, too, right? So, it all comes back uh full circle. But, that's the context in which I I used, but you know, it's just that when I used it, I instantly felt like this is where I want to be and spoke to some people, uh ended up at Google.

19:42 Um and soon started working on Chrome. Yeah. And you went to Google, it was about 2003, 4? 2004. So, 2004. So, you've transitioned now from semiconductors. What semiconductor company were you at? I actually don't know. >> For a long time, I was at Applied I was at Applied Materials. >> At Applied Materials. So, you're at a great company, Applied Materials. And now you've decided to go from Applied Materials semiconductors to the internet with Google. And you go that's a pretty big leap, actually, from semiconductors to the browser.

20:13 Okay, I wanted to be closer to um you know, when you're working in the semiconductor industry, sometimes you can feel far removed from the people I I I wanted to be much closer to where technology was impacting people. And and so, I wanted to be closer to the consumer. And and that's the chance with uh uh Google. 2004 was about the time in which you had this the web was changing from just content pages to real rich applications. This was web 2.0. It was Ajax.

20:45 Uh Gmail had launched, Google Maps, Flickr. Uh you could really see the web evolve. You were pioneering software as a service, too, at the time. I mean, like look all all of this was uh coming together and >> You're 5 years into Salesforce at that time. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Actually, we're going public and Google is going public in 2004. Now actually that you mention it, Google and Salesforce both went public that year, 2004. That's right. I went back and looked at our first partnership. I wasn't involved between Google and Salesforce was 2007. Yeah. That was the first contract I could find.

21:17 >> the first partnership. The first partnership was I was presenting, okay, ahead of our IPOs, and Larry and Sergey were in the front row. And I was presenting on our product strategy, but I also presented on our 111 model. Yeah. Which >> Which is the 1% equity, 1% profit, 1% time. And Larry and Sergey came up to me afterwards, and they said, "You know what? We're going to do that, too. And we're going to create google.org, and we're going to do the 1% also. And I want to thank them for that, and thank, you know, thank you, and thank Google for that, because it created a huge foundation with a huge amount of good.

21:58 And that was the very first time I had met Larry and Sergey, and it was it was an it was an incredible moment. So, and it just at that moment, you were kind of coincidentally joining Google. That's right. And >> So, was it before the IPO or after? Uh just, I think I joined, and the IPO happened like 2 weeks later. Fantastic. So, they joined You joined the company is going public. >> That's right. Now, is it at that point Now, who was CEO at that point? Was it Eric or Larry?

22:27 >> It's Eric. Eric. And is that when you said to Eric, "I'm going to take your job, Eric?" No, no, no. >> [snorts] >> The The The thing I did recall, it was in 2004, around 2006 is when uh you know, the thing with Eric I I still remember that. Oh, me and a few others, we wanted to build a browser, and Eric had gone through the browser wars before. Uh you know, it was super familiar with it.

22:54 Uh I remember vividly Eric telling us, "Are you crazy? You know what it takes to build a browser? We're not building a browser." We still did it anyway, but uh you know, but he was super generous and once we we kind of bootstrapped a browser, a small team, and then we demoed it to him and Larry Sergey. And once he saw how good it was, he became one of the biggest supporters of it. But that's how Eric and I interacted.

23:23 All right. Well, now you're squarely at Google and it's a storied career for the next 21 years from starting on this kind of incredible team that built the marquee browser Chrome all the way today as the CEO. Reflecting on that, you know, two decades, what what what is your thought across this arc from South India now to the this leadership journey at at Google? Okay, I think you know, technology is one of the biggest enablers we know, right? You know, it drives innovation at a fundamental level.

23:56 If anything, that journey is you know, accelerating, right? And they I think we are living in the middle of it. Sometimes we may not fully feel it. But the pace at which it's evolving and and I feel and I'm sure Mark feels that way. You know, our job is to be good stewards of this technology. Bring it in a way that really benefits society at scale, right? And and so this journey to harness technology in a way that positively impacts humanity. I think I think that's that's what we need to do. We obviously do it in the context of building companies, but companies with a purpose, companies which give back. I think both Salesforce and Google share that deeply and you inspired the Google journey there.

24:42 I think there is no better technology to do that than AI, right? And and [clears throat] one of the first things you know, when I became CEO was to we had gone through a decade of being a mobile-first company and you you I wanted to drive the shift uh, to being an AI first company. So, that's what we did in 2017. Uh, uh, you know, in in fact, in 2017 at Google I/O, we spoke about this concept of AI first data centers.

25:09 And, you know, we announced our first generation of TPUs in 2017. >> [clears throat] >> And and so, but it's been a journey. I think in many ways Larry and Sergey were visionary around always understanding the true potential for AI. I was fortunate to go through maybe four distinct moments which kind of like really brought it all together for me. In 2010, I went with uh, uh, with the with Larry to the DARPA Grand Challenge where they were testing autonomous cars and you know, we saw uh, this car at the Sebastian's uh, team uh, which won the DARPA Challenge.

25:47 So, you kind of saw the progress that's possible. Uh, Jeff Dean along with Jeff Hinton and team had come to Google and so, Jeff Dean demonstrated Google Brain in 2012, the ability for Google Brain to recognize cats uh, using a neural network. That was 2012. I met Demis and team in 2014. And then in 2016 was the AlphaGo moment, right? So, seeing all this, you know, it was it was fortunate to be at that that kind of advantage point, which is why in 2017, I said the company has to be really focused on it was obvious to me this was going to be the decade of AI.

26:28 Uh, and so, that was the journey uh, since then. Okay, so now let's go back about 3 years when we started to have some very interesting conversations. Because all of a sudden, here's Google, the absolute leader in AI, DeepMind, now Demis, the Nobel Prize winning Dennis. We never thought that was about to happen. It's incredible what has happened. Well, very well warranted. And now 3 years ago, here you are the leader in AI. You are leading the company through this transformation. You're putting guardrails in, appropriate guardrails.

27:06 You're being conservative, appropriately conservative. And this little company in San Francisco called OpenAI emerges with this product ChatGPT. And we start to see these crazy headlines that say, well, Google has a competitor and here's the situation and here's the real leader in AI, OpenAI. What's your reaction? And you know, take us in that journey for the last 36 months. Um a few things, right? I think one of the things which is misunderstood was you know, obviously 2017 was when we published the Transformer paper, too.

27:41 Um we started using Transformers right away. We saw the power of uh the technology. Uh part of what made search so much better was post-Transformer. >> the paper all you need is attention. Attention is all you need, yeah. And and uh extraordinary paper and uh you can say it's the foundation of everything since then, all of the gen AI uh phenomenon. And we built something called BERT and MUM. Uh so, we built two Transformer-based models which is what dramatically improved search. We used Transformers to make search better.

28:19 The we used Transformers, too. That's why we launched Google Photos. It was the first AI-native product. We're shipping a lot of and we were working on a internal version of chatbot, too. In fact, it was a chatbot uh it became famous because uh there was an engineer at Google who thought it was sentient. Uh you know, this was about 6 months >> It was not sentient? Uh I don't uh I don't It wasn't sentient. Uh on on a lighter note, though, I did get a lawyer like from the outside, send me a note saying, "Representing this product called Lambda." And uh so which is one of the more fascinating emails I've gotten.

28:56 Uh but but >> is a lawyer representing the sentient chatbot that That That That's how uh it came in, right? But look, we have to take all this seriously. Obviously, the technology wasn't anywhere close to that at that time. But we were making a lot of progress. Uh uh but you're right, credit to OpenAI. Uh you know, they they put it out first. And look, in in consumer internet, it's not I remember being at Google in 2000 uh uh six, and we were working on video search, and YouTube came out of nowhere.

29:27 Or I'm sure if you were within Facebook, you saw how photos were popular in your feed, and Instagram came out of nowhere. You know, in the consumer internet world, you know, I would argue pretty much all of us working on, we knew in a different world we would have probably launched our chatbot maybe a few months down the line. We hadn't We hadn't quite gotten it to a level where you could put it out, and people would have been okay with Google putting out that product. Right? It was still uh had a lot of issues at that time.

29:56 I would argue >> lot of risk putting it out at that time. >> Putting it out, and I would argue, you know, OpenAI did their deal with Microsoft 2 months before they put out ChatGPT, right? As in some ways, I think it was you know, in hindsight, it's a bit more obvious uh fully what what it could be. But for me, when the when when ChatGPT launched, contrary to what people outside felt, I was excited because I knew the old the window had shifted.

30:22 We were building this technology We have been building this technology for so long. We were so AI native. Everything in the company, every decision we had made, uh you know, I had decided to take a full-stack approach to AI, right? We were investing all the way from infrastructure. We built our own chips. Uh to we had world-class research teams in Google research, Google brain, Google DeepMind and and to the models and so on. So, I I just realized this is the biggest opportunity in technology. We were incredibly well positioned, but we had to carpe the MCs the moment and execute well as a company and that's the journey we've been on.

31:02 We kickstarted Gemini. We brought Google brain and Google DeepMind together. And and we've been rapidly iterating since then. We have had you know, now we have Gemini 2.5 outside. We are working on Gemini 3.0, which we will release this year. And and the progress has been extraordinary and I think the progress in 26 is going to be even more exciting than 25. So, I couldn't be more excited.

31:32 One other thing, congratulations. >> [applause] >> So, now let's take a quick step into the future. So, here we are, you know, we've all been on Google, we've seen the huge transformation not only of Gemini, but even AI preview and all the technology that you're pioneering and I don't think I've ever seen the organization go faster and quicker and also be more determined and you know, it's it's good to have a competitor, right? It gives you a little extra motivation to keep go to get going. And number two is we see Google also innovating in some extraordinary ways. A great example is I don't know if you've been to San Francisco recently, but we have about 500 of these white cars called Waymos going around.

32:18 And it's amazing what Google has made. It's incredible. [clears throat] And I would just, you know, look at that and also think about and reflect yesterday we had Brad Adcock here who has this company called Figure with robots. And you know, I was asking him you know, what is the whole stack? You know, there's the data centers, there's the AI, and there's this kind of robotic layer, you know, this kind of that that it takes many different pieces to build the whole system end to end.

32:49 And, you know, it's difficult, you know, Brett it was a brilliant interview and he's just incredible person. Um but he's got three or 400 or 500 people, obviously all incredible, led by an incredible person. But you have way more than that and you have way more put together and you're really far in a lot of these areas. You're very far on the as Well, let's just start at the chip layer, at the data center layer, at the at the software layer, at the agentic layer, at the applications layer, productivity layer, partnerships, Yeah.

33:24 and at the robotic layer as well. So, now there's no other company that has that. I'm sure that this is the conversation in the boardroom every day. I don't really know, but this idea that Google has this vision really guided by and you have to give a lot of credit to these two kids out of Stanford, Larry and Sergey, who are still so active. I see them around all the time and still so passionate and youthful.

33:52 And now here you are leading this company, incredible company, this these amazing values. Talk We talked about the heart of Google still very much in place. Now, here we are 2025. Now we look out over the next 10 years. People are always overestimating what you can do this year in 2025, underestimating what Google's going to get done by 2035. Take us out to 2035. Take us into your biggest dream.

34:23 Where are we going? How are you going to harness the power from the tensor to the data center, the GCP, Gemini, the applications, the partnerships, the robots. What are we going to see? What is going to What is it going to look like 10 years from now in the mind of Sundar? Look, I mean, um I mean, technology >> Just that. Just that. Yeah. Uh both you and I have worked long enough that, you know, you have to be humble when you think about the future, uh but look, we make these long-term bets. You know, Waymo's been on a very, very long journey, right? I'm proud of the fact that over the past 10 years, we continued investing in Waymo. I remember the team 3 years ago when we were coming to San Francisco, we weren't sure how this would work out. The thought in San Francisco that you would have all these cars driving around and and you'd have to get it right putting safety first, etc.

35:19 But in technology, you take these long-term bets. Um just last week, and I'll answer your question, but just last week, you know, I spent for maybe 2 weeks ago now, uh I I Monday, I'd gone to Santa Barbara in our quantum lab. I met with the team. Again, it's another journey we've been at it for more than 10 years. I think we have the leading quantum lab in the world. Uh I finished spending my day, I left on Monday, and Tuesday morning, I found our chief scientist there won the Nobel Prize uh for uh physics this year, right? And uh And this is the second year in a row, you mentioned Demis and John Jumper last year.

35:56 But we believe in that kind of deep fundamental R&D, right? And and with the view of translating that into real products. That same quantum computing team, no different from our TPU teams, you know, plans to have commercially available uh real at scale quantum computers in a few years, and I think they will get there. Right? So, when you talk about now 10 years ahead, we are building this digital intelligence layer, not just us, and >> So, 10 years quantum is real is your point.

36:27 At least I for sure think so. I'm very very bullish and confident on it. I've seen the That's going to put at odds cryptography as we know it today. What are cryptocurrencies going to be at risk with quantum computing that can break any any code, you know, available from a Google or other vendors? >> I think in a 3 to 5 year thing, we will have that moment where from a cryptographic standpoint we have to adapt to quantum for sure. Yeah. But I think we will.

36:54 >> That create a moment of vulnerability, do you think, for all of these currencies and all of this stuff stuff? It will, but I think as a society we it will also create an opportunity for people to come and provide new solutions. >> is a trust gap, that moment, that could be very serious. So, it's something that need everyone needs to be mindful about. >> Mindful of and I think there's so much at stake. I think we will you know, we will we will collectively work together.

37:16 Uh but on the positive side, you know, if you ask me 10 years from Look, we we are definitely going to have digital superintelligence as a collaborator for all of us. That is going to be a reality. >> What does that mean? That has been a phrase that everyone is starting to use, but few have been able to define it. Digital superintelligence. And is that kind of where we're going then? It's 10 years is digital superintelligence, it's quantum computing. Like we were talking about AGI, that term seems to be dropped. That was this concept that the software is so smart it's just writing itself and it's the data centers are being built by robots and it's just all going in the book that Larry talks about, you know, we are legion, we are Bob, you know, that that we're all off in a rocket ship collectively waking up and a robot. Is that what's what we're talking about?

38:07 Cuz we were talking about that yesterday with Brett and it was like, "Whoa, it was a trip." Look, though one thing I would we [clears throat] are so good at adapting. I think we constantly underestimate, right? Obviously me 10 years ago we stopped suddenly talk about Turing tests, like we kind of went moved past it. The fact that our self-driving cars driving in San Francisco and you did You're right, they're driving around. It's kind of like people are you know, we just kind of like I'm not sure my kids are impressed by that, right? So, it's just you know, like I am like blown away every time I get in one of those cars because I've you know, seen the progress. How many of you here have been in a Waymo? Raise your hand.

38:49 You know, uh How many people have not yet been in a Waymo? Raise your hand. Oh. Well, there you go. >> I mean, you should before you leave and I got [laughter] to you know, I would check it out. But the great example is, you know, I put my dad in the Waymo, I sat in the back seat, he was in the front seat. I watched the one forum, it felt like that science science fiction, right? And my kids, they could gone on their phones and they were like, whatever, right? And So, we have this remarkable ability to adapt.

39:20 So, this notion, they're just going to have you know, yesterday we announced this wonderful collaboration with Yale where, you know, we built a used our open-source models to build a a cellular model on which you could target novel It hypothesized novel possible approaches. We took that and were able to recreate that in a in the biological wet lab scenario and see that actually works. This is for future potential uh paths for cancer.

39:52 Like biologists are using AlphaFold. They are actually using open-source Gemini models. But all this is happening. So, I think you'd be under estimate humanities, we are such a remarkably resilient adaptive species. You know, we're going to adapt to this technology and it's going to be there around you. >> to involve Are we going to evolve into this technology like people are talking about? or is our species going to be safe as a you know, as who we are today, or will it be an evolution, or what's the what's what what's in your mind around this?

40:29 You know, I'm always much more, you know, I think our ability [clears throat] to harness this technology, uh I think we'll be able to do that. Uh you know, some of your questions maybe your guru might be better equipped to answer them. >> you are my guru at this point. Well, what's that? You are my guru. I definitely am not, and uh you know. So, you know, so, you know, I'm always hesitant to think that way. I I I focus on we have to be very responsible. Look, it is powerful technology, and you know, I think the technology will be capable of recursively self-improving over time.

41:07 So, these are very profound questions, and we all have to be good stewards of it. I view uh at any moment the technology is going to progress. We should embrace and innovate with it. Yeah. The benefits are going to be profound, but our responsibility as leaders is to make sure we are leaving uh the world in a better position for the next generation than what we inherited. That's how I think about it. >> seen Google great, excellent.

41:36 >> [applause] >> You mentioned the importance of getting closer to the technology. This is your passion, is one of the reasons you went to Google. We saw Google try to get even closer with the first version of glasses. You know, we've seen that. Do you think Google will even do like a brain machine interface? Do you see that level of interface? First of all, uh the glass dream has never gone away, right? I think we are working very hard on it. In fact, there were many things which we worked on which quite didn't work because AI wasn't fully there.

42:13 Right? But now that you truly have, uh, you know, seamless AI with intuitive interfaces for people, be it voice, gestures, vision, etc., the multimodality of AI, I Google Glass is going to be back and I think it's going to be great. Um, and your question was, sorry. I started thinking about Google Glass now. I just need to flip back on your brain machine interface. Oh, my brain machine makes a lot of sense to me, right? I I think I think what Elon and team are doing with Neuralink is super inspiring. When you see the examples, again, you know, when technology, people who have real disabilities, and and people being able to communicate again, etc., you know, some of the most moving things I see, right? So, I think I think it's a due >> It's It's totally incredible. Here at the conference, we even had Eddie Chang from UCSF, who has this amazing new brain machine interface company, Echo Neuro. We even had Brian Johnson, who had a brain machine interface company.

43:11 It was like multiple brain machine >> This may This may be TMI, but, you know, I've been under anesthesia and Eddie Chang operated on me. So, for what it's worth, yeah. So, he's a I didn't know that. >> I'll say he's a phenomenal >> Great sur- a great surgeon. >> He's a phenomenal neurosurgeon. I'm I'm perfectly fine, but he's a he's a phenomenal, uh, neurosurgeon, and so, yeah, one of the best best around in the world. Very good.

43:34 Well, Sundar, as we spring start to bring this to a close, first of all, let us express our sincere gratitude to you for everything that you are doing in your leadership and your vision, um, your direction, and also your core values, um, are so well in place, uh, in yourself and in Google. Tell us, you know, what would you like to, uh, bring to the audience and and to the world in your final comments in this Stream Force interview?

44:02 Okay, I mean, I would, uh, part of the reason I'm here today, uh, we have obviously worked for a long time together. Uh, we use Salesforce extensively within Google. We've expanded our partnership over time because of the value you all bring. Uh, you've helped us be very, very customer-focused as a company. I think the opportunity we both see is, uh, you know, you've made this the theme of Dreamforce this year, uh, the Agentic Enterprise. I I look at the model trajectory ahead, uh, you know, as we are working with Gemini 3.0.

44:35 In '26, we're going to make a you know, we've already had dramatic progress over the past couple of years. The progress ahead is palpably going to be you're going to feel that these models are going to be really intelligent agents. And they're going to be more robust agents. And what we are working together is to bring it in a way, you know, as as enterprises, you want all of this to work well together. You want this to be safe, secure, the governance has to work, but ultimately, you're trying to unlock the data in your enterprise and and solve your use cases better than ever before. I think that is the real opportunity we have. What you're doing with Agent Force, we're proud to partner by bringing Gemini there, and the chance to do all this together for all of you in a way that makes sense for you is what I'm excited about. So, thank you for Sundar, on behalf of all of us in Dreamforce, thank you so much for coming today. It's just a pleasure. Thank you.

45:31 That's great to see you. Awesome.