{"id":1020529,"date":"2026-07-13T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020529"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:52:26","slug":"google-ceo-sundar-pichai-on-the-one-ai-race-google-is-losing-to-anthropic-and-openai-says-we-maybe-didnt-quite-have-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-on-the-one-ai-race-google-is-losing-to-anthropic-and-openai-says-we-maybe-didnt-quite-have-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the one AI race Google is \u2018losing\u2019 to Anthropic and OpenAI, says: We maybe didn&#8217;t quite have the&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai has conceded that his company is trailing rivals in agentic coding, the one AI capability that has turned into the industry&#8217;s most lucrative battleground. Speaking on the Hard Fork podcast, published by The New York Times, Pichai said Google&#8217;s models sit at the frontier on text, multimodality, voice and reasoning, but not on the long-horizon coding tasks that Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code and OpenAI&#8217;s Codex have made their calling card. &#8220;When it comes to agentic coding with tool use, instruction following and long-horizon tasks, I think we are a bit behind at this moment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai has conceded that his company is trailing rivals in agentic coding, the one AI capability that has turned into the industry&#8217;s most lucrative battleground. Speaking on the Hard Fork podcast, published by The New York Times, Pichai said Google&#8217;s models sit at the frontier on text, multimodality, voice and reasoning, but not on the long-horizon coding tasks that Anthropic&#8217;s Claude Code and OpenAI&#8217;s Codex have made their calling card. &#8220;When it comes to agentic coding with tool use, instruction following and long-horizon tasks, I think we are a bit behind at this moment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020530,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020529\/revisions\/1020530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}