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GOOGLEarnings2026-04-29
Alphabet's CEO gives a usage figure for how much customer traffic its own AI models handle through direct programming access.
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Sundar Pichai · Alphabet Investor Relations · Alphabet 2026 Q1 Earnings Call
“And our AI models have great momentum. Our first party models now process more than 16 billion tokens per minute via direct API use by our customers, up from 10 billion last quarter.”
Key terms
- tokens
- — The small pieces of text or data an AI model processes; usage is often measured by counting them.
- API
- — A direct software connection that lets a customer's own programs call a service such as an AI model.
- first party models
- — AI models a company builds itself, rather than ones licensed from another provider.
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