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Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly acknowledged that Google currently lags behind competitors in agentic coding, tool use, instruction following, and long-horizon tasks.
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7/2/2026
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Google CEO Pichai Admits AI Coding Gap, Details Catch-Up Strategy and AGI Outlook
bilibili飞岩App5/29/2026
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