Alphabet Chief Government Sundar Pichai obtained whole compensation of about $226 million (roughly Rs. 1,850 crore) in 2022, greater than 800 occasions the median worker’s pay, the corporate mentioned 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 mum or dad firm of Google, has been chopping jobs globally, The Mountain View, California-based firm introduced plans to chop 12,000 jobs all over the world in January, equal to six p.c of its world 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 staff have been laid off.
In the meantime, the corporate is working quickly in direction of making its chatbot Bard stand out among the many opponents. On Friday, Google announced that Bard, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, to assist folks 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 may also assist debug and clarify code to customers, Google mentioned on Friday.
The corporate mentioned Bard may also optimise code to make it sooner or extra environment friendly with easy prompts resembling “Might you make that code sooner?”.
At the moment, Bard may be accessed by a small set of customers who can chat with the bot and ask questions as a substitute of working Google’s conventional search software.
© Thomson Reuters 2023
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