Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai used Wednesday’s earnings call to mount a robust defence of Google’s AI strategy, pushing back on concerns that the company has fallen behind rivals after delaying a flagship model and ceding ground in AI coding.

Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai’s admission in a New York Times podcast that Google is “falling a little behind” in AI coding tools has become one of the more pointed lines to emerge…

Google's delayed frontier model has rivals taking jabs. One analyst said it has shifted the perception "from leading edge to trailing edge."