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Sundar Pichai takes a dig at Satya Nadella on podcast
In 2023, Nadella had described Microsoft’s move into AI search as a direct play against Google.
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Pranavi Sharma - Sun, 18, May 2025
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Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella / X
Google CEO Sundar Pichai appeared on the All-In Podcast on May 16, where he acknowledged major competitors in artificial intelligence and appeared to reference Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s challenge to Google’s dominance in search.
Asked to weigh in on the current landscape of AI innovation, Pichai named key figures leading the charge—OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, xAI’s Elon Musk, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella—and offered praise across the board.
“They are some of the best entrepreneurs,” Pichai said. But he followed the compliment with a pointed quip: “I think maybe only one of them has invited me to a dance, not the others,” he added with a smile.
The remark prompted brief confusion from podcast host David Friedberg. Pichai appeared to allude to Nadella’s now-famous 2023 comment about making Google “dance,” delivered during the launch of Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing search engine.
Speaking to The Verge at the time, Nadella had described Microsoft’s move into AI search as a direct play against Google. “Today’s announcement is all about rethinking the largest software category there is: search,” he said. “At the end of the day, [Google is] the 800-pound gorilla in this. I hope that, with our innovation, they will definitely want to come out and show that they can dance. And I want people to know that we made them dance.”
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