Pichai: Google rolled out agentic tool 'Jet Ski' to Search team
Sundar Pichai · The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai · Apr 7, 2026 · at 1:01:46
Sundar Pichai discusses internal enterprise adoption of AI agent workflows across Google's engineering and product organizations.
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“For some strange reason, we have a different name internally than externally of the same product, but it's jet ski internally which is anti-gravity. And you're living on it. You're living in an agent manager world, your workflows, and you're kind of working in this new way, right? But just last week, we kind of rolled it out to the search team, right?”
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