Sundar Pichai on AI, the future of search, and what’s happening to the web
Sundar Pichai explains Google’s AI reorganization, agentic search ambitions, and tensions with the open web.
The Verge interviews Sundar Pichai after Google I/O 2026 about Google’s shift around Gemini, AI infrastructure, Search, and agents. The discussion covers Gemini Spark, Antigravity, AI Mode, YouTube indexing, publisher traffic, and the “Google Zero” concern. Pichai argues Google still wants to connect users to the web, while acknowledging AI anxiety, copyright disputes, energy concerns, and AGI preparation.
This is a long interview on The Verge's "Decoder" with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai following Google I/O 2026. Pichai says Google can now understand its main architecture through platforms such as Search, YouTube, Google Cloud, Android, and Chrome, while AI and infrastructure have become a common foundation spanning all products. He describes the pressure brought by ChatGPT as the turning point that forced Google to become truly "AI-first": Google merged Brain and DeepMind into Google DeepMind, consolidated AI infrastructure, appointed a chief AI architect, and adjusted the Search leadership structure so that AI products could make decisions and ship faster.
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