Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai Total compensation received in 2022 of about $226 million (about Rs 1,850 crore), more than 800 times the salary of the average employee, the company said in a securities filing on Friday.
The filing showed that Pichai’s compensation included stock awards of about $218 million (roughly Rs. 1,800 crores).
The pay disparity comes at a time when Alphabet’s parent company GoogleIs cutting jobs globally, The Mountain View, California-based company in January announced plans to cut 12,000 jobs worldwide, equivalent to 6 percent of its global workforce.
Earlier this month, hundreds of Google employees walked out of the company’s London offices following a dispute over layoffs.
In March, Google workers staged a walkout from the company’s Zurich offices after the company laid off more than 200 employees.
Meanwhile, the company is working fast towards making its chatbot. forage Stand out among competitors. Friday, Google announced the bard, its origins artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to help people write code to develop software as tech giants play catch-up in a fast-moving world race. oh technology.
Google said on Friday that Bard will be able to code in 20 programming languages, including Java, C++ and Python, and can also help debug and explain code to users.
The company stated that to make the bard code faster or more efficient “Can you make that code faster?” Can customize with simple gestures like.
Currently, Bard can be accessed by a small group of users who can chat with the bot and ask questions instead of running Google’s traditional search tools.
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