Google's top AI developer makes an alarming prediction for the next six months of artificial intelligence.
Among the big tech players of Grok's Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman, another key player in the AI race is gaining attention.
Logan Kilpatrick might not be a household name yet, but as the face of Google's AI development and marketing, he's at the centre of one of the industry's most important battles.
At just 27 years old, Kilpatrick is responsible for Google's AI Studio and Gemini API as head of developer relations, serving as the translator between the company's advanced AI research and the developers who will build next-gen AI applications.
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The importance of Kilpatrick's work has grown as Google competes for existing developers but also for fresh talent in coding, given AI's ability to lower barriers to software development.
"If you want AI to have the level of impact on humanity that I think it could have, you need to be able to provide a platform for developers in order to go and do this stuff," he told Business Insider.
"The reality is there's a thousand and one things that Google is never going to build, and doesn't make sense for us to build, that developers want to build."
Now, the AI leader has predicted what we can expect from AI in the next six months.
Taking to X this week, Kilpatrick posted: "The next 6 months of AI are likely to be the most wild we will have seen so far."
He then followed up with some more details, writing: "Everything keeps scaling up" before specifying 'more hardware, more model progress, more product knowledge, more AI momentum, more pmf [product-market fit]'.
We've seen ChatGPT explode in popularity, the abundance of realistic AI image and video generation, new AI players like DeepSeek entering the scene and AI capabilities progressing at a breakneck speed.
But according to Kilpatrick, we haven't seen anything yet.
When asked if he was referring to any advancements for Google's Gemini chatbot, Kilpatrick directly replied with 'yes.'
Google's position in the AI competition is complicated. On one hand, their latest Gemini 2.0 Pro model consistently ranks at the top of several performance leaderboards across multiple testing categories.
However, the number of Gemini users tells a different story.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai reported in May that Gemini has more than 400 million monthly active users, which sounds impressive until you compare it to ChatGPT's 500 million weekly active users reported by Sam Altman in April.
Still, some users on social media are optimistic about the AI revolution.
"Definitely one of the most fascinating times of my life! I'm here for the ride!" one X user responded.
"We are witnessing the greatest moment of this timeline," claimed another.
Meanwhile, others were sceptic and figured the predictions were all just hype.
"Not going to lie, the last six months were pretty disappointing," one X user commented, while another argued: "That’s what they said a year ago".
Someone else noted.: "To be honest, every 6 months is wilder than the last in AI."