Summary
Google is reorganizing its hardware and software teams to focus on AI. Rick Osterloh, who was previously the SVP of devices and services, will oversee all of Google’s hardware efforts. Hiroshi Lockheimer, the longtime head of Android, Chrome, and ChromeOS, will be taking on other projects. Rick Osterloh has kind of spent the last eight years building toward an AI future at Google. By combining teams, OsterLoh says, Google can now move much faster to integrate AI across all of its products. Sameer Samat, who has until now helped run Android under Lockheimer, will now be the president of the Android ecosystem. Changes like this seem to be part of an ongoing cycle at Google. Osterloh says his priorities haven’t changed, though his day-to-day meeting cadence certainly will. He says the plan is just to make everything faster.
