India, May 20 -- In the first key developer conference keynote of this summer, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai laid out the tech giant's artificial intelligence (AI) vision. Pichai noted extraordinary momentum with AI usage, saying Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, a 7x increase from 480 trillion tokens at the time of last year's Google I/O keynote.

That momentum, underlined by a year which saw Google continually ship new AI tech to consumers and enterprise users, marks the arrival of two new AI models, an agentic push and new integrations. Some recent shipments include significant AI layering for millions of Android phones with Gemini Intelligence, and Ask Maps for complex, conversational questions within ...