Anil, thank you so much for joining us here.
Where do you see the biggest opportunities for technological
change and innovation in this coming year?
Well, I'm glad to be here.
I think that we can't get through any day last year or
this year without talking about AI and generative AI.
And so, you know, for us at Google Cloud, we are always
engaged with customers across every industry and every
geography talking about the applications and the
advancements in generative AI.
The pace of acceleration in innovation in AI is
kind of unprecedented.
And so, I think what we're seeing now are more and more use
cases being adopted, more and more implementation of AI in
workflows, both in the back office as well as in
customer experiences.
And what you're going to hear a lot more about this year
are AI agents.
So how can everyone keep up with this rapid pace of change?
I think it's a great question.
It should be top of mind for every organization, whether
they're, you know, private sector, public sector or otherwise.
I think one truth everyone should kind of keep in mind is
that technology changes exponentially, but organizations
change logarithmically.
And so that divergence means there's a lot of tension in the system.
And it requires organizations to reset themselves and think
differently about how they do business, how they engage in
their daily work.
And they should be very cognizant about the potential
reshaping of their entire industry.
And what are you most hopeful for in this environment, you think?
So what I'm most excited about, you know, I've been a
technologist my entire career.
And I think just, you know, every week I see something new
that is emerging, that is democratizing the power of
sophisticated capabilities and putting them in the hands of all
types of workers.
And I think what it's going to allow us to do as society is
actually solve more problems, address more complex problems
that we could not previously address, and drive more discovery.
And so I think we're going to see a lot of exciting new
innovations emerge in the, in the coming year and the
years to follow.
Thank you so much for being with us.