Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thank CTOnews.com netizens Doudou for the clue delivery! On the morning of May 15, Beijing time, it was reported that Google employees were closely watching the I / O annual developer conference held last week, as well as the enthusiastic response from Wall Street.

Shares of Alphabet, Google's parent company, rose 4.3 per cent after the I / O developer conference. Internal conversations show that many employees believe that doing well is mainly due to Google engineers, not company executives.

On Google's internal website Memegen, the most popular images put Google I / O conference photos side by side with Alphabet's share price movements. This picture has received thousands of likes. The text on the left side of the picture reads "executives cut costs and buy back shares", while share prices fell during this period. At the same time, the stock price rose on the right side of the picture, while the words at the bottom read, "Engineers get things done."

Many employees agree with the views of the comment area. They praise their colleagues, saying that they have worked hard to make products during the prime time and helped the company compete in the field of artificial intelligence.

Not long before the I / O conference, many employees criticized chief executive Sandal Pichai (Sundar Pichai). During Google's layoffs and cost cuts, he received more than $200 million in equity incentives in 2022. In addition, employees are also dissatisfied with the $70 billion share buyback authorized by the company.

Alphabet shares are now at their highest level since last August, up 11 per cent last week. Google released PaLM 2, a general language model, last Wednesday, as well as a series of optimizations to the artificial intelligence technology and search services of the chat robot Bard.

Google has been under pressure in the field of artificial intelligence since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT at the end of last year. Microsoft, an investor in OpenAI, is integrating ChatGPT's technology into Bing's search engine and other products. This has raised concerns among investors that Google's dominance in its core search market is in jeopardy.

In February, Google held an event to promote Bard, an artificial intelligence chat robot, but Alphabet shares fell 7 per cent. Google employees described Pichai's release as "hasty and clumsy".

Then Google began to speed up and bring its consumer artificial intelligence services to market as soon as possible.

After the Google I / O conference, employees were very interested in some updates to Bard, especially features for programmers, such as Dark Mode. This display style is usually popular with programmers. After Google announced its support for the model, the crowd burst into applause.

One picture that received hundreds of likes wrote, "what I learned from I / O" was that "Google can still impress me."

In another picture, employees like Dave Burke, vice president of engineering. Burke demonstrated Android 14 this time and was very sincere on stage. This is a far cry from the general speaking style of senior executives at corporate conferences.

The keynote speech at Wednesday's conference lasted two hours, and employees laughed at the word "artificial intelligence" that frequently appeared in the speech. The text of one picture reads: "I / O 2023 boosted the company's share price", and the small print below reads: "as long as you keep talking about artificial intelligence, it will always work." Another popular picture reads: "Let's sprinkle some artificial intelligence / machine learning materials on I / O 2023."

A Google spokesman declined to comment. Alphabet shares fell nearly 40 per cent in 2022 and are up 33 per cent so far this year.

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