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Anil, thank you so much for
joining us here.

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Where do you see the biggest
opportunities for technological

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change and innovation in this
coming year?

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Well, I'm glad to be here.

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I think that we can't get
through any day last year or

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this year without talking about
AI and generative AI.

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And so, you know, for us at
Google Cloud, we are always

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engaged with customers across
every industry and every

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geography talking about the
applications and the

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advancements in generative AI.

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The pace of acceleration in
innovation in AI is

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kind of unprecedented.

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And so, I think what we're
seeing now are more and more use

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cases being adopted, more and
more implementation of AI in

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workflows, both in the back
office as well as in

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customer experiences.

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And what you're going to hear a
lot more about this year

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are AI agents.

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So how can everyone keep up with
this rapid pace of change?

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I think it's a great question.

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It should be top of mind for
every organization, whether

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they're, you know, private
sector, public sector or otherwise.

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I think one truth everyone
should kind of keep in mind is

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that technology changes
exponentially, but organizations

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change logarithmically.

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And so that divergence means
there's a lot of tension in the system.

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And it requires organizations to
reset themselves and think

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differently about how they do
business, how they engage in

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their daily work.

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And they should be very
cognizant about the potential

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reshaping of their entire
industry.

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And what are you most hopeful
for in this environment, you think?

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So what I'm most excited about,
you know, I've been a

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technologist my entire career.

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And I think just, you know,
every week I see something new

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that is emerging, that is
democratizing the power of

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sophisticated capabilities and
putting them in the hands of all

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types of workers.

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And I think what it's going to
allow us to do as society is

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actually solve more problems,
address more complex problems

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that we could not previously
address, and drive more discovery.

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And so I think we're going to
see a lot of exciting new

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innovations emerge in the, in
the coming year and the

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years to follow.

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Thank you so much for
being with us.