The next chapter of our AI momentum

Editor’s note: Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams, including new roles for Demis Hassabis and Koray Kavukcuoglu. Below are the messages Sundar and Demis sent to employees.

We’ve made extraordinary progress to deliver on our full AI stack. We’ve got amazing talent, world-class compute, and products that bring AI to more people than any other company.

What Happened

And you saw the incredible momentum at earnings across all our businesses, including Search, YouTube, and Cloud. Our Gemini models are in high demand among developers and businesses, and the Gemini app reached 950M+ monthly users.

• Read an edited transcript of Sundar Pichai’s remarks from the Q2 2026 Alphabet earnings call.

• Read Sundar Pichai’s remarks during the Alphabet earnings call for Q1 2026.

• We have all the ingredients to lead from here, and I firmly believe we will.

Key Details

Meanwhile, our AI research continues to drive field-defining breakthroughs (like last week’s Gemini Robotics advances). We have to accelerate all this work and stay focused on the AI frontier.

• We are the only company that has the full stack and we’re world-class at every layer from infrastructure to cloud to frontier models to AI-first applications.

• As a business we are in an incredibly strong position.

• I’m very excited for our next chapter and the best is yet to come!

Why It Matters

At the same time, there’s never been a more important moment to shape the future of AGI and science. Today Demis, Koray and I are sharing a few changes to our Google DeepMind teams that will enable us to do both.

• We’ve become the AI engine room of Google, with Gemini delivering helpful experiences everywhere including AI Mode and AI Overviews, the Gemini App rocketing to over 950M monthly users, and our fundamental and scientific.

• We should all be extremely proud of the amazing things we’ve achieved so far.

What Reports Say

Coverage of the story so far points to:

• Continued reporting by blog.google as more details emerge