2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of ChromeOS; the Chromebook was released for trial and testing in 2011, and released to the public in 2012. On May 20, 2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format, WebM. Pichai served on Jive Software's board of directors from April 2011 to July 2013.

On March 13, 2013, Pichai added Android