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Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate Aug 24, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:45 Ranjan Roy Are there group chats where it's, like, Sundar, Mark, and everyone, but, like, they're, they're all feeding on each other, and they're competing on each other, against each other,

Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick Aug 10, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:15 Alex Kantrowitz Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a post on X.
  • ▶ 46:49 M.G. Siegler I mean, so with the disclaimer, obviously that I worked at Google for over a decade, but I've been gone for a couple of years now, so I don't have inside information, uh, you know, current about this situation, but again, just reading…

How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn Aug 5, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:22 David Cahn And so I do think, and if what it's worth, and this is why I talk about kind of the game theory and logic of the people leading these companies, you look at Sundar, you look at Satya, you look at Sam, you look at Elon, you look at Dario.

Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day Aug 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:41 Reed Albergotti They're all, they're all threading that needle of, like, disruption on one side, you know, like, big, big, like, hasty bet mistakes on the other side, holding on to that old business while, like,

What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get? Jul 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:23 Alex Kantrowitz And so, so I'm, just to, just to take it one level deeper, if you're Sundar, you already sort of started late. 2 times in the scene

Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble Jul 20, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 45:27 Ranjan Roy Not, not the lean fighting machine that Sundar just somehow reorg into this is back to like Google chat, hangout, whatever the product names, whenever they all just were ridiculous and kind of like stacked on top of each other. 4 times in the scene

Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake Jul 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:32 Alex Kantrowitz Like Satya Nadella was making Sundar dance like five minutes ago, and now Satya Nadella is like, what is he doing?

Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast Jun 26, 2026 · 1 mention

Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions Jun 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:36 Ranjan Roy Every time, I remember like Sundar, actually, it was, I don't know if people remember, in 2019.

Did Apple (Finally) Get AI Right At WWDC?, Anthropic’s Worry, Microsoft vs. OpenAI Jun 8, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 25:17 Ranjan Roy Yeah, you're, I mean, yeah, Google completely disproves my point, but I still, my, one of my favorite hot takes is that Google's entire, uh, AI transformation success can be traced back to the fact that Sundar was a McKinsey alum and looks…
  • ▶ 38:15 Ranjan Roy I mean, what, have you ever heard Sundar say that? 2 times in the scene

Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public Jun 8, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:42 M.G. Siegler You even heard Sundar Pichai was on, um, you know, with, with Casey Newton and Kevin Ruse on their podcast, and he explicitly said, like, just straight up, like, um, that they're a little bit behind in, in coding, you know, with regard to…
  • ▶ 1:04:19 M.G. Siegler The IO point Sunder was on stage announcing that Gemini is also at nine hundred million MAU.

Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI May 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:21 Alex Kantrowitz It's at 9.7 trillion to 3.2 quadrillion per month in two years, according to Sundar Pichai, who, by the way, I mean, I, I, I, I won't pile on, but it was a fairly underwhelming Google IO kind of as we expected.

Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank May 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:13 Ranjan Roy We've theorized that maybe Sundar's McKinsey chops helped him kind of, you know, like completely reorient the, reoriented the entire company towards AI, make changes.
  • ▶ 53:16 Ranjan Roy I work on my Sundar as well.

More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit Apr 10, 2026 · 1 mention

Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff Mar 2, 2026 · 1 mention

How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika Feb 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:26 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, Sundar spent time at McKinsey and this is sort of like a McKinsey style approach to like reorg, centralize, and then work with the groups.
  • ▶ 11:11 James Manyika Uh, so, so what actually happened was three years ago, uh, you know, uh, you know, this is a kind of a inspired, you know, Sundar moment said, let's reboot Labs.

Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles Feb 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin Jan 26, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:13 Ranjan Roy Do you think he's just not, no one's, Sundar's not tapping him on the shoulder and saying, make sure you're gonna have to make a bit of money at a certain point. 2 times in the scene

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: AI's Next Breakthroughs, AGI Timeline, Google's AI Glasses Bet Jan 23, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:36 Alex Kantrowitz And Sundar in a recent earnings call said, there are some ideas within Google of the right way to approach this.

Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential Jan 19, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:16 Ranjan Roy I actually was had to look up and I think we probably had entire segments on should Google fire Sundar a year ago. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:17 Ranjan Roy Sundar's still got some reorg McKinsey style work to do here.

AI’s Steve Jobs?, Big Tech AI Chaos, 2026 Crystal Ball Jan 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 20:37 M.G. Siegler Because you would think like, okay, well, there's, there's Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai and, and, and, and Andy Jassy at Amazon. 2 times in the scene

2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft Dec 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:13 Reed Albergotti And I think Sundar, you know, he gets a lot of, he gets a lot of crap, I think, but like, I mean, to be able to kind of like quickly mobilize and change.

Groq and Cohere CFOs: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Profitable? Nov 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:17 Alex Kantrowitz Google recently held an earnings conference call, and Sundar Pichai shouted out a number of companies that were using Gemini and generating many millions of tokens, and then someone did the math, and they said that's an incremental, maybe,…

Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit Nov 24, 2025 · 17 mentions

  • ▶ 10:23 Alex Kantrowitz But, uh, in turn, Sundar had, he did have to dance. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:29 Ranjan Roy Launched by Gemini, Google, Sundar, all of them. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:13 Alex Kantrowitz What they've, what they did was this is something that Sundar has done. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:44 unnamed speaker And like, uh, you saw Sundar. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 45:18 Ranjan Roy Um, but Sundar is gonna lead Google through the, through the turbulent times and the storms, cuz that man, to pull this off already. 3 times in the scene

Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg Nov 19, 2025 · 1 mention

OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity Nov 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:41 Ranjan Roy I mean, it, if we're saying, I think, was it Sundar was like, it was more important than electricity, like, if we have, and fire, and fire, if we, if we have, like, nationalized infa, utility infrastructure, though it's still not fully…

OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot Nov 3, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 50:15 Ranjan Roy Well, yeah, I think, I mean, Alex had a tweet in our prep doc, um, that was very interesting to me because Sundar basically like proudly saying, a 150 Google cloud customers processed one trillion tokens and then had some kind of standard… 2 times in the scene

Revealed: OpenAI Tells Us ChatGPT's Major Use Cases Sep 22, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 30:56 Ranjan Roy And I think, wasn't it Sundar who said like, it's the biggest thing since fire. 3 times in the scene

Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest Sep 8, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 7:06 Ranjan Roy So I think, yeah, Sundar, anyone who counted him out, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:38 Alex Kantrowitz Um, interestingly, uh, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and all of them basically like, you know, they, they took turns going around the table, praise, praising the president.
  • ▶ 26:19 Alex Kantrowitz So, uh, mea culpa for our criticism of Sundar's ability to lead this business. 5 times in the scene

Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 · 2 mentions

OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:48 Aaron Levie A great operator in Sundar, an incredible, you know, AI, uh, innovator in, in Demis, uh, Jeff Dean, you know, deep on research and science, and then now this kind of hardcore founder in Sergei, like this is not a company that is going to…

OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree Jun 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:13 Alex Kantrowitz Maybe, but I think we, like, we started the Trump administration with, like, Zuck and Sundar and Bezos and Musk, uh, all behind Trump in the inauguration, but yet, you know, as tends to happen and

Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony Apr 19, 2025 · 3 mentions

Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 · 5 mentions

Boom Times For ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Deep Research, AI Super Bowl Feb 7, 2025 · 1 mention

OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand Nov 24, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:53 Alex Kantrowitz Google saw this built Chrome, by the way, project manager on Chrome, Sundar Pichai, who's now the CEO of Google.
  • ▶ 22:25 Ranjan Roy Remembering why Sundar is tweeting congratulations to Trump.

Box CEO Aaron Levie — What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us May 22, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:09 Aaron Levie Um, just yesterday, uh, uh, um, Sundar announced, uh, two million tokens on the latest Gemini model.

Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders Apr 20, 2024 · 10 mentions

Why Marissa Mayer Is Betting Big On Consumer Tech Apr 15, 2024 · 3 mentions

Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor Oct 30, 2023 · 6 mentions

A Dozen Grueling Years At Amazon — With Kristi Coulter Sep 21, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:37 Alex Kantrowitz You have, you know, Sundar coming in after the founders at Google played that archetype.

Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers Jun 29, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:53 Alex Kantrowitz You, it seems like you might even be in a great position to, you know, say, Hey, we have this chat thing, keep developing it within X and then call Sundar up and be like, Hey man, can we have some of that cloud infrastructure the same way…

How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence Oct 31, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:15 Alex Kantrowitz It was Sundar Pichai, right, who eventually became the CEO of Google and Alphabet today, and that's not an accident.
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