Google’s CEO has unveiled ambitious plans for 2025, focusing on strengthening the Gemini app and driving major advancements in AI products and services. This strategic roadmap is poised to redefine both Google’s direction and the broader tech industry.
As reported by CNBC, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has set 2025 as a pivotal year for the company.
a time of urgency and determination.
Amid increasing competition, regulatory hurdles, and fast-paced AI developments, Pichai has emphasized the urgency for prompt action.
He has urged employees to accelerate their pace and concentrate on leveraging AI to solve real user problems.
The Google CEO’s latest comments come after a tumultuous year.
While divisions like search advertising and cloud computing have seen strong revenue growth.
competition in Google’s core markets has increased.
and the company has faced internal challenges, including cultural differences and concerns about Pichai’s prospects.
In addition, legal scrutiny has increased more than ever.
, with a federal court ruling that Google has an illegal monopoly in the search market and a Justice Department request to spin off its Chrome browser unit, to name just a few.
Meanwhile, the rise of generative AI has opened up new ways to access information online and brought new competitors to the fore. Companies like OpenAI with ChatGPT and Perplexity with their AI-powered search service have become serious competitors to Google. OpenAI’s $157 billion valuation and Perplexity’s $500 million funding round.
at a valuation of around $9 billion, demonstrate the importance and potential of this space.
To maintain its position, Google has invested heavily in its AI model, Gemini. Pichai said Google’s main goal for 2025 is to “create great new businesses,” which includes Gemini. Gemini is a key part of Google’s strategy, as it is seen as the following program to reach half a billion users, a milestone currently achieved by only 15 Google apps.
Google executives see Gemini as Google’s next program to reach half a billion users. Currently, 15 apps have reached that number. Google’s main focus in 2025 will be to develop and expand Gemini in the consumer segment.
The Google CEO acknowledged the need for the company to catch up in certain areas, stressing that delivering a high-quality product is more important than being first.
He confirmed that Google will not charge $200 a month for its AI products, unlike some competitors.
and emphasized that the $20 monthly fee for Gemini Advanced offers good value.
One of the employees’ questions was about ChatGPT becoming synonymous with AI, similar to how Google became synonymous with search. In response, Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind.
announced Google’s plans to “boost” the Gemini app and significantly improve its AI products in the coming years.
He also discussed the vision of a universal assistant. In this concept, AI can seamlessly assist users across any domain, mode, and device, much like how Google’s search engine is now synonymous with online information retrieval.
The Google CEO said that constraints often lead to creativity and that not all problems can be solved by adding more staff.
This approach aligns with Google’s cost-cutting policies.
which include cutting about 6% of its workforce by 2023 and focusing on productivity.
The session concluded with a demonstration of Google’s new AI-powered products, including Jules, a coding assistant.
NotebookLM (an AI-powered note-taking tool), and Project Mariner (an AI-powered Chrome multitasking extension). Pichai repeatedly emphasized the need for “hard work,” referring to Google’s early days and how the company’s founders built data centers.