Sundar Pichai says Google and Nvidia will still be working together 10 years from now

Sundar Pichai stated Google‘s longstanding relationship with chipmaker Nvidia is not going to alter any time quickly — the truth is, he expects it to proceed over the following 10 years.

In an interview Wired printed Monday, the Google CEO stated the corporate labored “deeply” with Nvidia on Android and different initiatives for over a decade, including that Nvidia has a “sturdy observe file” with AI innovation.

“Look, the semiconductor trade is a really dynamic, cooperative trade,” Pichai stated. “It’s an trade that wants deep, long-term R&D and investments. I really feel snug about our relationship with Nvidia and that we’re going to be working carefully with them 10 years from now.”

In August, the 2 corporations introduced a partnership that will give Google’s cloud clients higher entry to know-how powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs. Nvidia’s inventory closed at a file excessive after the announcement.

Nvidia’s enterprise has been booming as a result of its powerful graphics processing units, or GPUs, are being wanted by cloud corporations, authorities businesses and startups to coach and deploy generative AI fashions just like the know-how underpinning OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Google has been jostling with the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft to be on the forefront of AI innovation, and it has launched a lot of AI options, like its chatbot Bard, throughout its enterprise items. In the interview with Wired, Pichai described AI as “some of the profound applied sciences we will ever work on.”

Nvidia is reaping the advantages. As of Monday morning, Nvidia’s inventory is up practically 212% yr up to now. In its fiscal second-quarter earnings, the corporate stated its quarterly income doubled from a yr earlier, and it expects gross sales within the present quarter will develop 170% from the year-ago interval.

—CNBC’s Kif Leswing contributed to this report