Alphabet Chief Government Sundar Pichai acquired whole 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 mother or father firm of Google, has been reducing jobs globally, The Mountain View, California-based firm introduced plans to chop 12,000 jobs world wide in January, equal to six % of its world workforce.

Early this month, a whole bunch of Google staff staged a walkout on the firm’s London places of work following a dispute over layoffs.

In March, Google staff staged a walkout on the firm’s Zurich places of work after greater than 200 staff have been laid off.

In the meantime, 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 synthetic 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 stated on Friday.

The corporate stated Bard may also optimise code to make it quicker or extra environment friendly with easy prompts reminiscent of “Might you make that code quicker?”.

At present, Bard will 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 device.

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