Last November, Alphabet’s headquarters in Silicon Valley was enveloped in a fog of confusion due to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an artificially intelligent conversationalist. Eight months later, Google has put to rest any notion that it has fallen behind technologically. In May, Google CEO Sundar Pichai unveiled more than a dozen AI-powered products at I/O, an annual event for software developers. Since then, Google has launched AI products and features left and right, such as NotebookLM, an AI-assisted note-taking tool, and an AI model that matched human doctors’ responses to questions about the right treatment for patients.
