Sundar Pichai on Google's frontier AI commitment and the compute trade-offs behind Gemini 4 Argon

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told Big Technology that Google remains committed to frontier AI development, saying its cloud business forgoes short-term revenue to make compute trade-offs in support of that work. He said Gemini 4 Argon, which he says beats OpenAI and Anthropic's latest public models on coding, math, science and knowledge-work benchmarks, processed almost 25 trillion tokens in its first 72 hours, about three times Gemini 3.0, and that Google is capacity constrained serving it. Pichai also said frontier access gives Google an earlier look at emerging capabilities and matters for building the next generation of models.