Google to deliver world’s most advanced AI in 2024? Leaked internal document reveals company’s AI goals

Google seems to have set its eyes on becoming the world leader in AI. A leaked internal document seems to have revealed the company’s grand plans.

The new set of goals revealed by the internal document also hint at impending layoffs in the year. (Image: Google)

In 2023, we witnessed the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence in various industries. The invention of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its success led to an AI arms race with many tech giants working towards becoming the leader in the space. Meta, Google, and Microsoft were all seen scrambling to offer the most powerful AI in their products and services.

Even as OpenAI continues to lead the pack, Google has been making some rapid strides in AI. Now, a new leak seems to have indicated that Google has set the goal of delivering the world’s most advanced, safe, and responsible AI. This has been revealed by an internal document that was accessed by The Verge.

The internally shared document also included six other goals. These goals are “to improve knowledge, learning, creativity, and productivity; Build the most helpful personal computing platforms and devices; ⁠Enable organisations and developers to innovate on Google Cloud; Provide the world’s most trusted products and platforms, Build a Google that’s extraordinary for Googlers and the world; Improve company velocity, efficiency, and productivity, and deliver durable cost savings,” etc.

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It needs to be noted that since the beginning of the month, Google has been laying off its employees. The goal of “improving company velocity, efficiency, and productivity, and deliver durable cost savings” – points to more layoffs. The fact that Google’s Bard has not gained any ground and hasn’t succeeded yet as a standalone AI product on the levels of ChatGPT, has placed immense pressure on the tech giant. In order to catch up in AI and to maintain its momentum and dominance in search, Google is leaving no stone unturned.

Even though Google unveiled Gemini last year, based on the benchmarks, it is barely able to keep up with OpenAI. Also, it is rumoured that OpenAI has already started working on the next major update to GPT-4. Meanwhile, Google has been implementing its AI into existing suites of products such as Pixel smartphones, business apps, and generative AI search.

Although Google has not been able to create something on par with ChatGPT, there have been talks that the tech giant may be working on a new chatbot powered by the most capable Gemini Ultra model. Microsoft’s cloud business is growing rapidly thanks to OpenAI and is likely to outpace Google.