{"id":39171,"date":"2025-11-22T01:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/ceo-sundar-pichais-cheeseburger-flex-sums-up-googles-amazing-comeback\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:32:15","slug":"ceo-sundar-pichais-cheeseburger-flex-sums-up-googles-amazing-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/ceo-sundar-pichais-cheeseburger-flex-sums-up-googles-amazing-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Sundar Pichai&#8217;s cheeseburger flex sums up Google&#8217;s amazing comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6920ee7289026fbb4d0e3859?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Google CEO Sundar Pichai\"\/><figcaption>Google CEO Sundar Pichai<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images\/Reuters<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Google&#039;s Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro showcase major advances in generative AI technology.<\/li>\n<li>The new AI models demonstrate improved spatial reasoning, fixing past image generation flaws.<\/li>\n<li>Google&#039;s AI progress reestablishes its leadership in tech and boosts the company&#039;s value.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2017, Google was criticized for a bad emoji. This week, CEO Sundar Pichai fixed it. How he did this says a lot about the progress Google has made in generative AI.<\/p>\n<p>The internet giant schooled the rest of the tech industry when it launched its latest model, Gemini 3, on Tuesday. It followed that up by rolling out an upgraded image-generation tool called Nano Banana Pro, which is churning out impressive, realistic pictures, diagrams, and charts.<\/p>\n<p>Google proved that AI scaling laws still work, just asits rivals are being questioned. The stock jumped to a record, making the company worth more than Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>This is all a long way from 2017. Back then, Google rolled out a cheeseburger emoji for Android smartphones. It had the cheese <em>under<\/em> the meat. Absolute scandal.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think we need to have a discussion about how Google&#039;s burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while Apple puts it on top pic.twitter.com\/PgXmCkY3Yc<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Baekdal (@baekdal) October 28, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pichai apologized and said Google would get working on a fix immediately, in a joking kind of way.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday:) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this! https:\/\/t.co\/dXRuZnX1Ag<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) October 29, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fast forward to this week with the launch of Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro.<\/p>\n<p>These new AI models are much better at creating and rendering images. Their understanding of 3D space and how the world works, physics-wise, has improved so much that they now absolutely <em>nail<\/em> the cheeseburger stack.<\/p>\n<p>Pichai tweeted an AI-generated image out to prove the point, writing &quot;iykyk&quot; as a nod to the 2017 furor. As you can see, the earth has been set back on its correct axis, and we can all calm down: the cheese is <em>above<\/em> the meat.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>iykyk pic.twitter.com\/LCqGm5VSQf<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) November 20, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, it&#039;s time to get serious. Why am I telling you this?<\/p>\n<p>The ability of AI models to innately understand where stuff should go in the world is really important.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Normally, AI models struggle with spatial orientation, particularly with respect to the relative position of objects,&quot; Balaji Srinivasan, a tech investor and former Coinbase CTO, wrote on X after Pichai&#039;s latest burger post. &quot;But this image (if rendered by Gemini 3) seems to resolve that issue, as the exact spatial positioning of the cheese is handled correctly and precisely.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>If AI models can know where cheese should go in a burger, they might also know where more important stuff should be in the real world. That could mean better machine decision-making in design, engineering, and other fields.<\/p>\n<p>One theoretical example: A safety barrier likely needs to be placed in the right spot on the corner of a road. Maybe AI models can guide workers to put this structure in exactly the best spot, down to the millimeter.<\/p>\n<p>There&#039;s another takeaway from this eight-year cheeseburger saga. Google has been criticized for being behind in generative AI, and this week&#039;s releases have finally put those questions to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Powerful products like Gemini 3 take many years, and a lot of technical research and plumbing, to pull off. Google has been working at this for a very long time, and Pichai has been pushing the company toward an AI-first mindset for about a decade. Now the fruits of these labors are showing through.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Google really <em>did<\/em> drop everything they were doing to truly focus on AI. And Gemini 3 represents the moment when they actually retook the lead, at least for now,&quot; Srinivasan wrote. &quot;When combined with Sundar doubling Google&#039;s revenue to $100B, he&#039;s proven he can lead Google to unprecedented heights both technologically and commercially.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Hence: iykyk. If you know, you know,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sign up for BI&#039;s Tech Memo newsletter <\/em><\/strong>here<strong><em>. Reach out to me via email at <\/em><\/strong>abarr@businessinsider.com<strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images\/Reuters Google&#039;s Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro showcase major advances in generative AI technology. The new AI models demonstrate improved spatial reasoning, fixing past image generation flaws. 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