Google execs say employees have to ‘be more AI-savvy’

Google Managers are forcing employees to move more urgently in the use of artificial intelligence while looking for ways to reduce costs.

This was a message at a entire hand meeting last week with CEO Sundar Pichai and Google’s flagship products that operate technical basis for the flagship products of Google.

“When you pass through an extraordinary investment period, you respond by adding too many staff, right?” Pichai said according to the sound obtained by CNBC. “But at this time, we have to achieve more by taking advantage of this transition to provide higher efficiency.”

In the earnings report last week, Alphabet said that it was planning to spend $ 85 billion on capital expenditures from $ 75 billion in 2025, which he targeted earlier in the year. It is also a theme between the technology in which internet giants compete to create expensive data centers to operate large AI models and workloads while cutting expenses at the same time.

Uz We compete with other companies in the world, Pic Pichai said at the meeting. He continued: “There will be companies that will be more efficient in terms of the efficiency of the employee, so I think it is important to focus on it.”

In June, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company will shrink because the corporate labor force has adopted more productive AI vehicles and agents in the coming years. In an e -mail to employees, Jassy wrote that employees should learn how to use AI tools and learn “how to do more with Scrappier teams”.

MicrosoftJulia Liuson, who controls the President’s developer vehicles, Told the employees In June, “using AI is no longer optional.” Do shopping CEO Tobi Lutke said that in April, employees use AI in their daily work and “more staff and resources, why teams should show what they want to do using artificially,” he said.

As the alphabet progresses in the last quarters, the company is still below the summit since 2023, when the company was close to 191,000 full -time employees. According to Alphabet’s three months, the number was slightly over 187,000 at the end of June financial filing last week. At the beginning of 2023, Google eliminated approximately 6% of the labor force, and since then interruptions in various groups and offered purchasing to employees since the beginning of the year.

“We will go through a much higher investment period, and I think we should be frugal with our resources and I will try to be more productive and productive as a company.”

Google refused to comment on the explanations.

At the meeting, Saluzzo emphasized a number of tools for software engineers or SWEs to help the company “everyone on Google more curious”.

“To meet the best needs, we feel the urgency of entering faster and more urgent coding workflows, so you see a much faster increase in speed.” He said.

Saluzzo said that Google has an AI product portfolio for employees. He talked about an internal site called “AI Savvy Google”, including courses, vehicle sets and learning sessions, including individual product areas.

Google’s engineering training team developing courses for internal and external use Saluzzo established a partnership in a training called “Building with Gemini”, which will soon be introduced by Deepmind. In addition, he referred to a new internal AI coding tool called apple wine, which helps software engineers with various aspects of the development process.

When Saluzzo first introduced the apple wine of the company, 50% of users touched the service weekly. Regarding Google’s internal AI vehicles, Saluzzo said that employees should “always have to expect them to be better” and “most of them will be an integral part of SWE business”.

At the beginning of this month, Google made a big leap in the AI coding market, As part of an agreement of $ 2.4 billion, high -profile starting to catch key managers in Windsurf. Windsurf co -founder and CEO Varun Mohan joins Google with other senior research and development employees.