New Delhi, June 6 -- Google CEO Sundar Pichai has talked about how he handled a crisis of sorts at the company when critics had started aiming for his head as the tech giant lagged behind in the AI race to OpenAI and other rivals. In the past year, however, Google has come back strongly with the rollout of its Gemini 2.5 models, new AI features across different apps and now with an AI chat mode coming to Google Search.

In a recent podcast with YouTuber Lex Fridman, Pichai was asked how he battled a lot of outside chatter asking for his resignation because of Google was supposedly losing the AI race.

To this, the Google CEO responded saying, "Look, lots to unpack. Obviously, the main bet I made as CEO was to make sure the company was app...