India, May 22 -- Ten years ago, in August, when Sundar Pichai took over as CEO of Google, few could have foreseen that we'd be living in an artificial intelligence (AI)-led world a decade later.

Did Pichai envision this transformation on the horizon? He doesn't let us in on the secret, but there are hints. Google began investing in tensor processing units (TPUs)-crucial to training AI models-a decade ago. They probably had an idea of what lay ahead.

"Part of what has always appealed to me about Google-and the founders wrote it in their letter-is that we will take a deep technology approach to drive progress in people's lives. It's why we invested in TPUs 10 years ago, before the current moment, and why we've been investing in quantum co...