Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai acquired complete compensation of about $226 million (roughly Rs. 1,850 crore) in 2022, greater than 800 occasions the median worker’s pay, the corporate stated in a securities submitting on Friday.
Pichai’s compensation included inventory awards of about $218 million (roughly Rs. 1,800 crore), the submitting confirmed.
The pay disparity comes at a time when Alphabet, the father or mother firm of Google, has been reducing jobs globally, The Mountain View, California-based firm introduced plans to chop 12,000 jobs all over the world in January, equal to six % of its international workforce.
Early this month, lots of of Google workers staged a walkout on the firm’s London workplaces following a dispute over layoffs.
In March, Google workers staged a walkout on the firm’s Zurich workplaces after greater than 200 employees had been laid off.
Meanwhile, the corporate is working quickly in the direction of making its chatbot Bard stand out among the many opponents. On Friday, Google introduced that Bard, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, to assist individuals write code to develop software program, because the tech large performs catch-up in a fast-moving race on AI expertise.
Bard will be capable to code in 20 programming languages together with Java, C++ and Python, and can even assist debug and clarify code to customers, Google stated on Friday.
The firm stated Bard can even optimise code to make it sooner or extra environment friendly with easy prompts resembling “Could you make that code faster?”.
Currently, Bard may be accessed by a small set of customers who can chat with the bot and ask questions as a substitute of operating Google’s conventional search instrument.
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