Sundar Pichai pushes back on claims Google is losing ground in AI race

The latest setback has fueled worries that ‌Google was losing ⁠momentum just ⁠as OpenAI and Anthropic and a host of Chinese rivals have accelerated the pace of model releases. On the call on Wednesday, Pichai struck an unusually ​defensive tone as analysts pressed him on the state of Google's frontier models and whether they could still compete at the cutting edge ​of AI development.