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GOOGLEarnings2026-04-29

Alphabet's CEO gives a figure for token processing volume through direct API use of the company's own models.

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Sundar Pichai · Alphabet Investor Relations · Alphabet 2026 Q1 Earnings Call

“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.”

Transcribed from the source video. Automatic captions, corrected for known mis-transcriptions.

Key terms

tokens
— The small chunks of text or data that AI models read and generate; token counts are used to measure model usage.
first party models
— AI models developed in-house by the company rather than licensed from another provider.
API
— An interface that lets outside developers send requests to a service directly from their own software.
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