--- title: Google: 2024 TIME100 Most Influential Companies description: Google: 2024 TIME100 Most Influential Companies canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979988/google/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-05-30T11:42:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T02:28:18.175Z article:section: Business og:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: Google og:description: Find out why Google is on the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979988/google/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7dd247e0dd7721cc/698a5727096a94f2b46b08ce/time100-companies-google-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: Google og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2024: Google twitter:description: Find out why Google is on the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7dd247e0dd7721cc/698a5727096a94f2b46b08ce/time100-companies-google-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- May 30, 2024 # Google by [Will Henshall](https://time.com/author/will-henshall/) ## Will Henshall  Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during an interview on May 1, 2024. Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during an interview on May 1, 2024.David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, may have been more hesitant than OpenAI to release its AI tools into the world in recent years, but CEO Sundar Pichai is making sure it moves swiftly to level up. In February, its AI lab Google DeepMind unveiled chatbot Gemini, and during its annual developer conference on May 14, Pichai showed how Google has begun integrating its cutting-edge AI systems into its products, such as offering AI-generated summaries of internet search results and emails, and AI-powered photo searching. Google DeepMind continues to work on AI systems to transform science and on May 8 it announced [AlphaFold 3](https://time.com/6975934/google-deepmind-alphafold-3-ai/), which is poised to revolutionize drug discovery. And as over half the world’s population heads to the polls in what is shaping up to be the biggest election year ever globally, Google’s Jigsaw team, which builds tech to combat threats to open societies, is pioneering AI tools and techniques for [handling misinformation and disinformation](https://time.com/6970488/google-jigsaw-eu-elections-misinformation-prebunking/) and [raising the quality of online conversations](https://time.com/6966990/ai-google-jigsaw-social-media-division/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979988/google/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979988/google/"},"headline":"Google","datePublished":"2024-05-30T11:42:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T02:28:18.175Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979988/google/","keywords":["Companies","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7dd247e0dd7721cc/698a5727096a94f2b46b08ce/time100-companies-google-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Will Henshall","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/will-henshall/"}],"creator":"Will Henshall","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7dd247e0dd7721cc/698a5727096a94f2b46b08ce/time100-companies-google-2024.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"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/collections/time100-companies-2024/6979988/google/","name":"Google"}}]}] ```