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Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's next leap depends on building "much larger base models"

Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's next leap depends on building "much larger base models"

Alphabet has raised its 2026 investment forecast to as much as $205 billion, saying demand continues to outpace spending. Google Cloud grew 82 percent in the second quarter. CEO Sundar Pichai says Google needs a larger base model for its next leap in AI and has kicked off an ambitious Gemini 4 training run. The article Google CEO Pichai says Gemini's next leap depends on building "much larger…

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