Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced major internal reorganizations, including the creation of a new team called “Platform and Devices”. This will be handled by Rick Osterlohuntil a few hours ago SVP of the devices and services division, and will deal with – among other things – the prodotti Pixel, Chrome, ChromeOS e Android. Hiroshi Lockheimer, for years responsible for Android, Chrome and ChromeOS, will instead take care of other Google and Alphabet projects.
Why this important change within the Mountain View giant? According to the aforementioned Osterloh, there is only one reason: artificial intelligence. “It’s not a secret,” the executive said. “I think hardware/software/AI integration has already demonstrated how AI can totally transform the user experience“, he has declared.
Excited to take on this new challenge and accelerate AI innovation across the Android ecosystem, I look forward to working with @Cristianoamon and his team and increasing our strategic collaboration with @Qualcomm and @Snapdragon for Android, not just in mobile but across…
— Rick Osterloh (@rosterloh) April 18, 2024
An example suggested by Osterloh to David Pierce of The Verge it’s about GPUs. In recent years Google has invested many resources in its products Tensor to keep up with NVIDIA and others, and has done so always taking the software into consideration to try to obtain the best possible result in terms of optimization. Now that the hardware and software teams are united and guided by a single leader and a single goal, the road can only be downhill.
Again Osterloh underlined how Google can now move even faster to integrate artificial intelligence into all its products. This new phase will also contribute to improving Android as an operating system, and the AI upgrade has already begun: the Gemini model is finding more and more space and the features of recent years “gifted” to smartphones in the Pixel range demonstrate their advantages day after day. potential. And in the future, AI will also change the way users use other devices, namely those based on wearOS, Android Auto and Chrome OS.
As for the future, according to the manager the plan is to make everything faster and faster. There is talk of updating Big G’s devices more often, as artificial intelligence models are improved, but also of launching new products faster, without getting bogged down in bureaucracy.