{
  "id": 16163323,
  "title": "Sundar Pichai says Google is far from the ‘end state’ of self-improving AI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/sundar-pichai-says-google-is-far-from-the-end-state-of-self-improving",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-23T07:45:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/sundar-pichai-google-rsi-recursive-self-improvement-ai-2026-10"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, stated that his company's researchers are utilizing AI to aid in the development of next-generation AI models. However, Pichai emphasized that Google is still in the early stages of recursively self-improving AI (RSI) and that the moment of fully self-improving AI is still a considerable distance away. Speaking on the Big Technology Podcast, Pichai explained that Google's researchers are working alongside AI agents to build better models, referring to it as \"agents helping AI researchers in some automated way.\" He also noted that Google's AI models are likely contributing to the creation of their successors. Earlier this month, Google co-founder Sergey Brin echoed this sentiment, stating that Google's Flash series of models and Gemini 4 demonstrate how AI is helping to build itself. Brin has been increasingly involved in Google's Gemini efforts and has prioritized RSI, pushing for more resources towards the project. A recent report from Gladstone AI suggested that most researchers from companies like Anthropic and DeepMind believe RSI will begin within the next three to 12 months, and possibly sooner without government intervention. Pichai also shared that AI is being heavily used internally at Google, with 75% of new code generated by AI tools. He highlighted that with Gemini 4 Argon, researchers will tackle harder problems and that AI usage has led to a one-third decrease in code rollbacks.",
  "summary": "Google employees are leaning more on AI to build better models, but CEO Sundar Pichai said RSI is in its early days.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}