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Sundar Pichai is out with an internal email today detailing the big Platforms & Devices reorganization of Android, Chrome and Pixel, as well as other company-wide changes.

To truly drive computing forward, we need to do it at the intersection of hardware, software and AI. So we are formalizing the collaboration between DSPA and P&E and bringing the teams together in a new PA called Platforms & Devices.

The Alphabet/Google CEO says this merger will result in higher quality products and experiences for our users and partners. Specifically, it will turbocharge the Android and Chrome ecosystems and bring the best innovations to partners faster, with Circle to Search for Samsung cited as an example.

This should speed up decision-making internally.It follows the hardware division in January switching to a functional organization model where, for example, there is one team for hardware engineering across Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit.

Meanwhile, there are other AI changes today. All compute-intensive model building now takes place within Google DeepMind. This gives other teams within Google single access points for tak[ing] these models and build[ing] generative AI applications.

Meanwhile, Googles Responsible AI teams are moving from Research to DeepMind to be closer to where the models are built and scaled.

Were standardizing launch requirements for AI-powered features and increasing investments in red team testing for vulnerabilities and broader evaluations to help ensure responses are accurate and responsive to our users prompts.

Meanwhile, Google Research is getting a clear and distinct mandate to continue investing in foundational and applied computer science research in three key areas:

Fundamental computer science research is in our DNA and we have some of the worlds best computer scientists. We simply would not be the company we are today without the researchers who developed the foundations on which all Googles products are built and are now inventing the foundations for our future.

Pichai ends on a mission first note:

We have a duty to be an objective and trusted provider of information that serves all of our users globally. When we come to work, our goal is to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful. That supersedes everything else and I expect us to act with a focus that reflects that.

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