Sundar Pichai wants real world results for his AI bots – so Google gave bonuses and golden bomber jackets to staff who came up with winning prompts

Pichai said his team are developing use cases for Google's AI services. — Bloomberg via Getty Images/The New York Times

Sundar Pichai and his team have gone back to basics in order to rapidly improve the effectiveness of their AI products in the real world – by launching an internal prompts competition and handing out prizes to the winners.

Alphabet-owned Google reportedly launched a 'golden prompt' competition for its Gemini workspace product, which is home to a host of AI-enabled productivity and collaboration tools such as emails, calendar, meet and more.