--- description: Google CEO Sundar Pichai's new letter touches on everything from search to YouTube and virtual reality. title: Read the Google CEO's New Letter on the Company's Future image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26c5c7300aa14023/69885e9f2dce01359f9e5018/gettyimages-168795943.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Companies](/tag/companies/) ## Companies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Read the Google CEO's New Letter on the Company's Future  by [Lisa Eadicicco](/author/lisa-eadicicco/)  ## Lisa Eadicicco Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 28, 2016 4:48 PM CUT  Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps for Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Annual Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps for Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Annual Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, May 15, 2013.Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Lisa Eadicicco](/author/lisa-eadicicco/)  ## Lisa Eadicicco Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 28, 2016 4:48 PM CUT Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin typically write a public letter every year to reflect on the company’s accomplishments and goals. This year, however, Google’s new CEO Sundar Pichai penned the annual note for the first time. Pichai was made CEO of Google after a recent [reorganization](http://time.com/3991647/google-alphabet/ "undefined") made the company a subsidiary of umbrella organization Alphabet. (Page is Alphabet’s CEO, while Brin is its president.) [Pichai’s note](https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/this-years-founders-letter.html "undefined") delves into Google’s accomplishments around search, YouTube, artificial intelligence, and more. He writes that Google will continue to push heavily into the development of artificial intelligence as a means of improving and advancing its most important products. “Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the ‘device’ to fade away,” Pichai wrote. “Over time, the computer itself—whatever its form factor—will be an intelligent assistant helping you through your day. We will move from mobile first to an AI first world.” Read Pichai’s full letter below: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4311233/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-letter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4311233/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-letter/"},"headline":"Read the Google CEO's New Letter on the Company's Future","datePublished":"2016-04-28T16:48:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:49:54.926Z","description":"\"We will move from mobile first to an AI first world\"","url":"https://time.com/4311233/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-letter/","keywords":["Companies","Tech","Google"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26c5c7300aa14023/69885e9f2dce01359f9e5018/gettyimages-168795943.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Eadicicco","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-eadicicco/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26c5c7300aa14023/69885e9f2dce01359f9e5018/gettyimages-168795943.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Key Speakers At The Google I/O Annual Developers Conference","caption":"Key Speakers At The Google I/O Annual Developers Conference","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/companies/","name":"Companies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4311233/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-letter/","name":"Read the Google CEO's New Letter on the Company's Future"}}]}] ```