Overview
- Sundar Pichai and Sunil Gavaskar carried the ICC T20 World Cup trophy onto the field in Ahmedabad before India’s Super 8 match against South Africa, with ICC chair Jay Shah noting the visit.
- Pichai joined Ravi Shastri in the commentary box, calling Gavaskar his childhood idol and discussing his lifelong love of cricket.
- At the India AI Impact Summit, Pichai announced a full‑stack AI hub in Visakhapatnam as part of a $15 billion investment, including gigawatt‑scale compute and a new subsea cable gateway.
- He highlighted Google’s collaboration on Pax Silica and said the company has contributed 22 Gemma models to AI Coach while working with India’s government and developers on real‑world AI uses.
- Public moments from the trip went viral, including a selfie with Shubman Gill at Google’s Gurugram office, a Google employee’s handshake post, and a YouTuber’s light‑hearted exchange at the summit.