Pichai admits Gemini trails — so the model gets massive

google ceo sundar pichai acknowledged that gemini lags behind competitors in coding and complex tasks, stating that the next leap requires 'much larger base models' and confirming an active pre-training run for gemini 4. while the flash series handles daily volume efficiently, the company is betting on sheer scale to close the frontier gap. this push coincides with strong financials, including ai mode reaching 1b monthly users and google cloud growing 82%, proving that serving ai demand requires both efficiency and massive model investment.