Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on a visit to Google's Berlin office.
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- Google's CEO Sundar Pichai says the sudden public interest in AI surprised the company.
- During an event at Stanford University, Pichai said he had a "different sense of the trajectory."
- Google has been fighting rumors that it was thrown into panic mode after the launch of ChatGPT.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has admitted that the generative AI boom caught Google by surprise.