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GOOGLEarnings2026-04-29
Alphabet's CEO cites efficiency improvements in Search speed and in the cost of serving AI responses.
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Sundar Pichai · Alphabet Investor Relations · Alphabet 2026 Q1 Earnings Call
“Even as we have brought new AI features into our results page, we have reduced Search latency by more than 35% over the past five years. And since upgrading AI Overviews and AI Mode to Gemini 3, we have reduced the cost of core AI responses by more than 30%, thanks to continued hardware and engineering breakthroughs.”
Key terms
- AI Overviews
- — AI-generated summaries shown at the top of Google Search results.
- latency
- — The delay between sending a request and receiving a response.
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