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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI will be ‘bigger than the internet’ | The Verge

The head of Google discusses the pressure to sell off Chrome and the future of search in the AI era.

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TL;DR: Google CEO Sundar Pichai sat down with Nilay Patel right after I/O 2025 to dive into what he calls a “new phase of the AI platform shift.” The highlight? AI Mode in Search, which dynamically spins up custom results pages—complete with charts and mini-apps—and will gradually fold into regular Google Search. Pichai says these new AI products mark “research becoming reality,” and he’s confident they’ll finally deliver returns on Google’s years of AI investment.

They also tackled the hot-button issues: publishers (backed by the News Media Alliance) screaming “theft” over AI summaries, future AR eyewear from Project Moohan, the big OpenAI–Jony Ive hardware deal, and looming antitrust battles—most notably the DOJ’s push to spin off Chrome. Through it all, Pichai insists Google’s committed to sending more traffic to the open web and won’t tweak search results for political pressures.