Job cuts to advance AI initiatives

Google CEO Sundar Pichai On January 17, it released an internal memo saying more jobs must be cut by 2024 to hit “big goals” in a number of areas, including artificial intelligence (AI).

“We have big goals and we're going to invest in our big priorities this year,” Pichai said in a memo titled “2024 Priorities and the Year Ahead,” seen by The Verge and CNBC.

But the reality is that we have to make tough choices to create the capacity for this investment.

The Google executive said it needed to eliminate roles for some teams and “remove layers to simplify performance and drive speed.” However, he said the layoffs would not be the same as last year and “will not affect every team.”

Some groups “continue to make resource allocation decisions,” Pichai said.

In January 2023, Google's parent company Alphabet announced that it would cut 6 percent of its global workforce. In September 2023, the company laid off 182,381 workers globally.

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AI is one of Google's key investment areas for 2024, and it plans to release the company's goals for it over the weekend.

In the year In December 2023, Google closed the year by releasing its most powerful Gemini to date, which was initially considered a “GPT-4 killer” as it was said to be on par with OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 model, which currently dominates the market. .

However, the Gemini's reception was mixed, and many users claimed that the promotional video stretched the truth to paint the model in a better light. Google's response to this is that some of the promotional materials used were used for a short period of time.

Not long ago, Google announced plans to make the tools more accessible to developers by lowering the price of the Gemini Pro version, similar to ChatGPT's feature of allowing premium users to create personalized GPTs.

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