LEAKING. Speaker: WE PRETTY MUCH KNOW

EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT A PIXEL 3, AS WELL AS THE

PIXEL 3 XL. Speaker: WE HAVE A VERY CLEAR

IMAGE NOW OF THIS PIXEL 3. Speaker: WE KNOW PRETTY MUCH

EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. Speaker: NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU

TRY, YOU LITERALLY CAN'T GET ANYTHING

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] Rick: GOOD

MORNING! GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE!

GREAT TO SEE YOU ALL HERE. YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR A LOT MORE

ABOUT HELP TODAY. I'M SO GLAD YOU'VE JOINED US.

WE'RE SHAKING THINGS UP A LITTLE BIT WITH A NEW VENUE, SOME NEW

FACES IN A NEW CITY. A SPECIAL WELCOME TO OUR FRIENDS

IN THE MEDIA. WE'VE ALSO INVITED SOME OF OUR

TOP SALES ASSOCIATES FROM VERIZON AND TELUS.

WELCOME. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

YEAH. THAT'S RIGHT.

FOR YOU OUT OF TOWNERS, THANKS SO MUCH FOR COMING HERE TO NEW

YORK CITY TO BE WITH US. SO THIS YEAR MARKS GOOGLE'S 20TH

ANNIVERSARY, AND FOR TWO DECADES, WE'VE BEEN WORKING

TOWARDS OUR MISSION OF HELPING TO ORGANIZE THE WORLD'S

INFORMATION, MAKE IT MORE ACCESSIBLE AND HELPFUL FOR

EVERYBODY. DELIVERING INFORMATION HAS

ALWAYS BEEN IN OUR DNA. IT'S WHY WE EXIST.

WE LOVE WORKING ON REALLY HARD PROBLEMS THAT MAKE LIFE EASIER

FOR PEOPLE IN BIG AND SMALL WAYS.

AND I WANTED TO TELL YOU A COUPLE STORIES ABOUT WHAT I MEAN

ABOUT THIS.

SO EVEN AFTER TWO DECADES, WE'RE CONSTANTLY WORKING TO SHAVE AS

MANY MILLISECONDS AS POSSIBLE OFF OF OUR SEARCH TIMES.

THAT FOCUS HAS CAUSED US TO PUSH INTO A BUNCH OF NEW AREAS.

WE DESIGNED OUR OWN SERVERS. WE DESIGNED AN OPERATING SYSTEM

TO RUN OUR DATA CENTERS. ALL THIS SO YOU COULD FIND

SEARCH RESULTS FASTER. BUT IF WE'RE REALLY GOING TO

HELP PEOPLE, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE PROVIDE THE MOST

RELEVANT SEARCH RESULTS. AND WE CAN ONLY DO THAT IF WE

KNOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR. SO WE SET OUT TO UNDERSTAND THE

NUANCES OF LANGUAGE, AND THE INTENT BEHIND

THE WORDS. AS WE PROGRESSED ON THAT, WE

REALIZED THAT WE COULD HELP WITH TRANSLATION, TOO.

THAT'S LED US DOWN A PATH OF DEVELOPING COMPLETELY NEW

TECHNOLOGIES, SOFTWARE, HARDWARE AND THE AI THAT UNDERLIES IT

ALL. AND NOW, WE'RE TRANSLATING 143

BILLION WORDS EVERY DAY IN MORE THAN 100 LANGUAGES.

AND NOW MORE PEOPLE CAN SAY WHAT THEY WANT TO SAY TO EACH OTHER.

BEAUTIFUL. HELLO.

THANK YOU. THESE ARE THREE OF THE MOST

REQUESTED WORDS

IN EVERY LANGUAGE. AND WITH SPEECH RECOGNITION AS

GOOD AS IT IS, WE CAN ROLL OUT VOICE INTERACTIONS ACROSS OUR

HARDWARE DEVICES SO YOUR DEVICES UNDERSTAND YOU WHEN YOU TALK TO

THEM. WE CAN LESSEN THE PAIN OF

RESPONDING TO E-MAILS BY SUGGESTING QUICK RESPONSES.

AND SMART COMPOSE IN G MAIL EVEN OFFERS TO FINISH YOUR SENTENCES

AS YOU TYPE. IT CAN SUGGEST RELEVANT

CONTEXTUAL PHRASES, AND CUT BACK ON REPETITIVE TYPING LIKE

ADDRESSES. SMART COMPOSE IS ALREADY SAVING

PEOPLE A BILLION CHARACTERS OF TYPING EACH WEEK, AND IT'S

COMING TO MOBILE FIRST, WITH PIXEL.

SO WITH OUR IMPROVEMENTS IN LANGUAGE, THE GOOGLE ASSISTANT

IS MUCH BETTER AT GETTING THINGS DONE FOR YOU, LIKE BOOKING A

RESTAURANT RESERVATION OVER THE PHONE.

THAT'S OUR DUPLEX TECHNOLOGY YOU SAW EARLIER THIS YEAR.

THESE INCREDIBLE TECHNOLOGIES YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT TODAY ARE

BUILT ON THIS 20-YEAR HISTORY OF MAKING INFORMATION MORE

ACCESSIBLE AND HELPFUL FOR PEOPLE.

THIS IS ALSO TRUE OF OUR

WORK IN IMAGING. MANY OF YOU IN THIS ROOM SAY

LAST YEAR'S PIXEL 2 STILL TAKES THE BEST PICTURES, EVEN IN A

YEAR WITH SO MANY AMAZING FLAGSHIP PHONES.

THAT'S NOT A FLUKE. PIXEL'S CAMERA COMPLETELY

RETHINKS HOW IMAGES ARE CAPTURED AND WE CAN TRACE THAT

INTELLIGENCE DIRECTLY BACK TO GOOGLE SEARCH.

WE NOTICED VERY EARLY ON THAT PEOPLE WERE USING GOOGLE TO

SEARCH FOR IMAGES, EVEN THOUGH OUR RESULTS WEREN'T PERFECT BACK

THEN BECAUSE WE WERE LOOKING AT METATAGS.

WE WERE LOOKING AT SURROUNDING TEXT.

NOW IT'S JUST REALLY A WORK-AROUND.

BUT WHAT WE REALLY NEEDED TO DO WAS LOOK AT THE IMAGES

THEMSELVES. SO WE SPENT YEARS RESEARCHING

COMPUTER VISION TECHNOLOGIES, ANALYZING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS

OF PHOTOS, AND NOW WE'RE GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME AT

RECOGNIZING OBJECTS AND FACES AND EVEN CONCEPTS WITHIN AN

IMAGE OR A SCENE. AND WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF WAYS TO

PUT THIS TECHNOLOGY TO

WORK FOR YOU. LIKE RIGHT NOW, YOU CAN SEARCH

THROUGH YOUR PHOTO LIBRARY, SO PICTURES ARE ACCESSIBLE WHEREVER

YOU ARE WITHOUT ANY WORK FROM YOU.

AND WE CAN HELP TAKE A STUNNING PORTRAIT PHOTO, JUST LIKE YOU

WOULD WITH A DSLR. AND WE CAN SMOOTH OUT SHAKINESS

IN YOUR VIDEOS. YOU CAN ALSO POINT YOUR CAMERA

AT A MOVIE POSTER, GET LOCAL THEATRE LISTINGS, MAYBE EVEN

LOOK UP AN ACTOR'S BIO. AND WE'VE INVENTED A NEW TYPE OF

CAMERA, PUT IT ON A FLEET OF CARS, AND THEN DROVE THOSE CARS

ALL OVER THE WORLD TO GIVE YOU A DETAILED

MAP OF THE WORLD. SO FROM SEARCHING TO

TRANSLATING, TO GETTING A GREAT PHOTO OF THE WORLD, WHEN WE SEE

AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP PEOPLE, WE GO THE EXTRA MILE.

OUR DEEP INVESTMENT IN AI OVER MANY YEARS IS AT THE CORE OF OUR

ABILITY TO PUSH FORWARD IN MANY AREAS AT ONCE.

AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THIS IN A LOT OF OUR PRODUCTS TODAY.

I SAY THIS EVERY YEAR, BUT THE BIG BREAKTHROUGHS YOU'RE GOING

TO SEE ARE NOT IN HARDWARE ALONE.

THEY COME AT THE INTERSECTION OF AI, SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE

WORKING TOGETHER. THIS APPROACH IS WHAT MAKES

GOOGLE'S HARDWARE EXPERIENCE SO UNIQUE, AND IT UNLOCKS ALL KINDS

OF

HELPFUL BENEFITS. WHEN WE THINK ABOUT ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE IN A CONSUMER HARDWARE CONTEXT, IT ISN'T

ARTIFICIAL AT ALL. IT'S HELPING YOU GET REAL THINGS

DONE EVERY DAY. A SHORTER ROUTE TO WORK.

A GORGEOUS VACATION PHOTO. A MORE EFFICIENT HOME.

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLE HERE IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS IT'S BEEN

FOR 20 YEARS, TO RESPECT OUR USERS AND TO

PUT THEM FIRST. AND THAT GUIDES OUR WORK IN

THREE VERY SPECIFIC WAYS. FIRST, WE WANT TO RESPECT EACH

USER AS AN INDIVIDUAL AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THEIR OWN

PERSONAL GOOGLE. JUST AS GOOGLE IS ORGANIZING THE

WORLD'S INFORMATION, WE CAN COMBINE AI, SOFTWARE AND

HARDWARE TO ORGANIZE YOUR INFORMATION.

YOUR EXPERIENCE AND THE HELP WE PROVIDE YOU IS UNIQUE TO YOU.

THE GOOGLE ASSISTANT IS THE BEST EXPRESSION OF THIS, AND IT'S

ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO HELP PROVIDE HELP WHEN AND WHERE YOU

NEED IT. SECOND, WE'RE COMMITTED TO THE

SECURITY OF OUR USERS. WE NEED TO OFFER SIMPLE,

POWERFUL WAYS TO SAFEGUARD YOUR DEVICES.

ONE WAY WE DO THIS IS AT THE OS LEVEL.

GOOGLE PLAY PROTECT IS THE MOST WIDELY DEPLOYED MOBILE THREAT

PROTECTION SERVICE IN THE WORLD, AND IT CONSTANTLY WORKS IN THE

BACKGROUND TO KEEP YOUR DEVICES AND DATA SAFE.

WE'VE ALSO INTEGRATED TITAN SECURITY, THE SYSTEM WE BUILT

FOR GOOGLE DATA CENTERS, INTO OUR MOBILE DEVICES WITH A NEW

DEDICATED CHIP. TITAN SECURITY PROTECTS YOUR

MOST SENSITIVE ON-DEVICE DATA BY SECURING YOUR LOCK SCREEN AND

STRENGTHENING DISK ENCRYPTION. AND IT ALSO EVEN PROTECTS THE

INTEGRITY OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM ITSELF.

BY COMBINING TITAN SECURITY BOTH IN THE DATA CENTER AND ON

DEVICE, WE'VE CREATED A CLOSED LOOP FOR YOUR DATA ACROSS THE

GOOGLE ECOSYSTEM. WE KNOW PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR A

LOT ABOUT THIS SO YOU'LL BE HEARING MORE ABOUT IT THROUGHOUT

THE DAY. A VITAL THIRD THEME OF OURS, WE

WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE IN CONTROL OF YOUR DIGITAL WELL

BEING. FROM OUR RESEARCH, 72 PERCENT OF

USERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF TIME THEY SPEND USING

TECH. AND WE ABSOLUTELY SHARE THAT

CONCERN. SO WE'VE DEVELOPED NEW TOOLS

THAT LET YOU CONTROL YOUR DEVICES, INSTEAD OF THOSE

DEVICES CONTROLLING YOU. WE'RE INTRODUCING NEW SIMPLE

WAYS TO CUT DOWN ON NOTIFICATIONS AND DISTRACTIONS.

WE CAN HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU'RE SPENDING

WITH DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS AND SET APP LIMITS SO YOU CAN SWITCH

THEM OFF WHEN YOU WANT TO. AND WE'RE PROVIDING PARENTS WITH

SIMPLE CONTROLS OVER SCREEN

TIME WITH THE FAMILY. WE FEEL A DEEP RESPONSIBILITY TO

OUR USERS TO PROVIDE A HELPFUL, PERSONAL GOOGLE EXPERIENCE WHILE

KEEPING THEIR INFORMATION SECURE AND MAKING SURE THEY'RE IN

CONTROL OF THEIR DIGITAL WELLBEING.

THESE THINGS REALLY MATTER TO OUR USERS, AND IT SHOWS IN THEIR

RESPONSE TO OUR PRODUCTS. THE ENTHUSIASM HAS BEEN

ABSOLUTELY GREAT THIS YEAR. OUR GOOGLE HOME DEVICES ARE

EXPANDING INTO MORE COUNTRIES AND MORE HOMES.

OUR DAILY ACTIVE USERS HAVE GROWN BY 5X IN THE PAST YEAR

ALONE, AND TEST AFTER TEST CONCLUDES THAT GOOGLE HOME IS

THE MOST ACCURATE AND MOST HELPFUL HOME ASSISTANT DEVICE.

IT DOES THE BEST JOB OF FILTERING OUT BACKGROUND NOISES

AND UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT PEOPLE'S VOICES, AND IT NOW

OFFERS HELP IN