Google is making one of its biggest-ever bets on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
Speaking Tuesday at the Google Cloud Next event in Las Vegas, CEO Sundar Pichai said the company plans to invest between $175 billion and $185 billion in capital expenditures this year\u2014up from $31 billion in 2022\u2014to build the infrastructure needed for what he called the \u201cagentic era\u201d of AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we move into the agentic era, we are taking this to the next level,\u201d Pichai said. \u201cWe are making big investments now and for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
The spending surge highlights Google\u2019s effort to compete with rivals, including Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI, as the industry shifts from chatbots to autonomous AI agents<\/a> capable of completing tasks with limited human oversight. According to Pichai, Google is already using those systems internally.<\/p>\n \u201cToday, nearly 75% of all new code at Google is AI-generated and approved by engineers, up from 50% last fall,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are now shifting to truly agentic workflows.\u201d<\/p>\n However, despite the push into agentic AI, Pichai emphasized that human engineers review the AI-generated code. He said Google is also using AI to automate parts of its cybersecurity operations, helping teams process large volumes of threat intelligence faster and respond to risks more quickly.<\/p>\n \u201cEach month, our teams receive unstructured threat reports at a scale that will take thousands of hours to review\u2014a nearly impossible task,\u201d he said. \u201cToday, our security operation center agents automatically triage tens of thousands of unstructured threat reports each month by accelerating the extraction of critical intelligence and filtering out the noise. It\u2019s reduced threat mitigation time by over 90%; we are more on the front foot than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n