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GOOGLEarnings2024-10-29
Pichai describes reductions in the machine cost of answering AI Overviews queries achieved through hardware and engineering work, alongside an enlarged custom model.
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Sundar Pichai · Alphabet Investor Relations · Alphabet 2024 Q3 Earnings Call
“For example, we shared that since we first began testing AI Overviews, we've lowered machine costs per query significantly. In eighteen months, we reduced costs by more than 90% for these queries through hardware, engineering, and technical breakthroughs, while doubling the size of our custom Gemini model.”
Key terms
- AI Overviews
- — AI-written summaries that appear at the top of Google search results.
- machine costs per query
- — The computing cost of producing an answer to a single search.
- Gemini model
- — Google's family of AI models used across its products.
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