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On October 24, 2026, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that AI is still far from achieving the ultimate form of recursive self-improvement (RSI). He said that current AI agents only assist researchers in developing models with a certain degree of automation, that the technology is still in its early stages, and that he expects further progress next year. The same report noted that Google disclosed in April of this year that 75% of newly added internal code was already generated by AI, and Pichai said that this proportion can no longer accurately reflect the actual situation; in addition, the number of times Google rolled back software versions due to program errors or system failures decreased by one-third.
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Oct 26
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Pichai Long Interview: Google Prioritizes Compute for Gemini R&D, Cloud Business Gives Up Some Near-Term Revenue
In an interview on the Big Technology Podcast, Pichai said Google prioritizes allocating compute to frontier AI research and model development, and the cloud business therefore gave up some near-term revenue. He revealed that in the 72 hours before Gemini 4 Argon launched, usage approached 25 trillion tokens, about three times the same period for Gemini 3.0, and it is still capacity-constrained; in the four weeks after Argon's release, Google's internal code change submissions increased by about 30% and rollbacks decreased by about one-third. He also said that currently agents assist researchers in developing models with humans still involved, that fully autonomous recursive self-improvement is still far off, and that safety requires multi-layered protections such as real-time monitoring, sandbox isolation, and customer control.
Oct 24
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Google CEO Pichai: We still have a long way to go before reaching the "final state" where AI can improve itself
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that AI is still far from achieving the final form of recursive self-improvement (RSI); at present, AI agents only assist researchers in developing models with a certain degree of automation, and the technology is still in its infancy. He expects further progress next year. In April this year, Google disclosed that 75% of newly added internal code was already generated by AI, and Pichai said that this proportion can no longer accurately reflect the actual situation; in addition, the number of times Google rolled back software versions due to program errors or system failures decreased by one-third.