Elon Musk's one-word reply to Sundar Pichai's post on Google-parent Alphabet's quarterly results
Sundar Pichai
shared a post on X (formerly Twitter), writing:
'Just got off the earnings call - great quarter and it was our (and my) 40th call as Alphabet. August will mark 10 years since we announced Alphabet. Been thinking about the incredible growth in our new businesses since then - Cloud, YouTube, Play, Subscriptions etc. To give a sense of progress, in 2015 all of Alphabet's revenue added up to $75B. YouTube and Cloud alone ended 2024 at an annual run rate of $110B.'
Pichai's post caught the attention of Tesla CEO
Elon Musk
. The tech billionaire commented on Sundar Pichai's post praising Google's quarterly results. 'Impressive', Musk wrote.
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Conversation between the two did not end here. Interestingly, Pichai responded to Musk's comments with a folded hand emoji.
Sundar Pichai's statement on earnings call
During the earnings calls, Sundar Pichai wrote:
'Q2 was a standout quarter for us, with robust growth across the company. As you saw at I/O, we are leading at the frontier of AI and shipping at an incredible pace. AI is positively impacting every part of the business, driving strong momentum.'
He highlighted that this quarter:
Search delivered double-digit revenue growth. Our new Search features continue to perform well. AI Mode has launched in the U.S. and India, and is going well, while AI Overviews now has over 2 billion monthly users across more than 200 countries and territories and 40 languages. I'll give some more details on Search in a moment.
We continue to see strong performance in YouTube as well as subscriptions, reflecting great momentum across these high-growth businesses. In the U.S., Shorts now earn as much revenue per watch hour as traditional instream on YouTube. And in some countries, it now even exceeds instream's rate.
Cloud had another great quarter of strong growth in revenues, backlog and profitability. Its annual revenue run-rate is now more than $50 billion. We are seeing significant demand for our comprehensive AI product portfolio.
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