【Google谷歌母公司】Alphabet Inc.（GOOG）2023年年度报告「NASDAQ」（英文版）（132页）.pdf

1、To our investors,2022 was a year full of change and uncertainty around the world.In February,when war broke out in Ukraine,our teams worked around-the-clock to make sure our products were helpful to people who needed them,from providing trustworthy information on Search to disrupting cyberattacks to

2、 partnering with the government to deploy air raid alerts.In March,I traveled to Warsaw,Poland,where I met Googlers hosting families who sought refuge,talked with entrepreneurs using our office spaces,and saw how our products like Google Translate were helping Ukrainians find a bit of hope and conne

3、ction.By late spring,the tech industry was adjusting to a more challenging macroeconomic environment,and as a company we embarked on efforts to sharpen our focus and make sure our efforts are aligned with our highest priorities.Near the end of the year,AI reached an inflection point,made possible by

4、 our foundational breakthroughs like Transformer and advances in diffusion models.It was an exciting moment for us after having worked to develop the technology responsibly for so many years.And on December 18,during the World Cup final,Google Search saw its highest query-per-second volume of all ti

5、me,a strong signal of our momentum.Through it all,we launched new products that helped us advance our mission:to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful.Over the past few years,AI has emerged as the most important way we can advance our mission,and in 2022,we ma

6、de some of our biggest technological advancements yet.In the area of natural language understanding,our latest model,PaLM,demonstrates breakthrough capabilities in language,reasoning,and code tasks.Breakthroughs in“chain of thought”prompting are helping to build systems that can perform multistep re