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Increasingly, we're seeing
CEOs not ask, what can AI do,

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but how do I really
rethink my organization

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and rewire my operating
model to be agentic-first?

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And in that context, we're super excited

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to be deepening our partnership with you

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and the work that we do together.

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Can you just talk a little
bit about that partnership

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and how the combination of Google and BCG

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is really so powerful?

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And so agentic is moving fast.

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It's really sort of breakneck pace.

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And so if we think
about even two years ago

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where it was about prompting an AI,

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that's moved on to this notion

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of sort of context engineering.

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We're now seeing agents
that are able to plan,

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execute independently, swarms of agents

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that are now embedded in workflows,

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and very soon agents that talk to agents,

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and not in the not too distant future,

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even agents that can pay
and transact on your behalf.

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So that is a phenomenal amount of change,

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and so CEOs, I think, are
now clearer about the value

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that AI could deliver to you.

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But the question is how?

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And I think, you know, our partnership

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and a great proven track
record of being able to engage

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CEOs and management teams
on core business issues,

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focus on the impact and
value creation for them,

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turn that into a very clear roadmap,

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and deliver it in very, very fast order,

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in typically eight to
ten weeks for a use case.

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I think that's an exceptionally
distinctive way to work

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and unique, I think, to our relationship.

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Part of that deepening of partnership

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is now Google DeepMind is also involved,

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which again, we're very excited by.

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And that this notion of
really going from lab

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into the boardroom and
into these, you know,

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CEO-level conversations

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around transformation and
delivering the transformation,

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something that we think is really gonna be

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a step change for our partnership.

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Talk, sort of a little
bit, how that came about

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and what it's gonna bring?

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We've had a long history
of working together

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where I think, you know, BCG
brings the domain independence,

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it brings the operational
and strategy expertise,

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it brings the technical expertise

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as we're thinking about
deploying together.

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The one thing that was missing,
I think, was the ability

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for Google to really
sort of be a step ahead.

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And what does the Google
DeepMind relationship bring?

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It brings early access to our models,

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so that's fundamental.

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So we get to see them,
test them, you know,

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build capabilities together
before they become mainstream.

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Two, as we're delivering use cases,

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and in our business, as you know,

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most of the ones we're doing

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are actually very, very
complex re-engineering

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or rewiring of an existing
or new business model,

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having Google DeepMind, their researchers,

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their engineering at the coalface with us,

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just gives us huge uplift in
capability in thinking through

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what AI could, should, and will do.

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And the third one I think is
a benefit to DeepMind itself.

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All of that collective tribal knowledge,

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we would love to go back into DeepMind

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so that they can look at the
models they're developing,

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stretch the capabilities of
the ones they have today,

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and really start thinking
about the models of tomorrow.

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Well look, it's been a pleasure
to have you, as always.

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Thank you for the conversation.

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My pleasure.