Google CEO Sundar Pichai faces one of his biggest tests as a leader of the search giant, as he balances the need to respond to the threat of
chatbots such as ChatGPT—developed by the Microsoft Corp.-backed OpenAI startup—with investor pressure on the Alphabet Inc. company to reduce costs. Here are edited excerpts from his interview with The Wall Street Journal about that moment:
WSJ: We are entering this difficult economic environment and this incredible moment for artificial intelligence. I think a lot of people are wondering if Google is moving fast enough to capture this AI moment and is Google set up to do it?