Google employees got a memo from the big man himself, CEO Sundar Pichai. The memo was also posted as a blog post from the company. In it, we see that Google is currently restructuring in order to better facilitate AI development.
The blog post was a lengthy one, but it shed some light on what the company plans to do for the future of its artificial intelligence. It’s split up into four parts, but much of it has to do with a large-scale restructuring that the company is going through. We’re not 100% sure if this has anything to do with the recent round of layoffs that the company went through.
Recently, we got news that Google was planning on letting go of a number of people. Along with that, we also found out that several roles were being moved to different locations including Mexico City, Dublin Ireland, and Atlanta, Georgia. Google has been letting go of people left and right this year, and we have no idea if the layoffs are going to end anytime soon.
Google is restructuring and focusing on its AI development
Let’s not mince words; when a company says that it’s restructuring, a lot of the time, it results in jobs being lost. However, we can’t save for certain that this is what’s happening with Google.
As part of the announcement, Google stated that it’s going to be merging some teams and departments. Pichai says that the company will “consolidate the teams that focus on building models across Research and Google DeepMind.” So, all of these teams will be under Google Deepmind.
Also, the company is moving the Responsible AI teams in Research over to Google Deepmind. So, it wants to streamline much of its AI endeavors and place more teams under one roof. Google also moved other responsibility teams to its trust and safety team.
At this point, there’s no telling if these moves will result in any changes for user-facing products. It doesn’t seem likely. In any case, Google believes that this will make the company work more efficiently and better achieve its goals. Whether that’s true remains to be seen.
In any case, we don’t expect these changes to have any effect on Android or its apps.